In the past year a generation of mighty critics has fallen: Michael Kennedy, 88, on the last day of 2014; Andrew Porter, 86, at one time a critic of this newspaper; Edward Greenfield, 86, for many decades a Guardian critic; and, earlier this month, Rodney Milnes, 79, longtime editor of Opera magazine.
"That's your whole review, O mighty critic?" Invisible Luna said.
The Great Tradition of the 19th-century English novel — so designated by the mighty critic F. R. Leavis, hardly an apologist for feminism — moved through Jane Austen and George Eliot on the way to Henry James and Joseph Conrad and has at its center the implicit assumption that women's lives and fates are not only interesting but also emblematic, vessels of meaning and mirrors of history.
On one occasion, the son of the ("Mighty Mad") critic John Dennis arrived at Lord Bathurst's house, where Pope was dining, with his sword ready and demanding satisfaction.
Soldiers, mostly; the rest, Civil Servants".The Company's growing involvement in politics infuriated its mighty army of critics still further.
Then came a potentially far-reaching measure to force more competition on the telecoms firms that have made Carlos Slim the world's richest man, and on Televisa, a mighty television network which his critics claim did Mr Peña favours during the campaign.
But since then a succession of catastrophes most notably the implosion of Enron in 2001 and the financial crisis in 2007-08 have empowered the critics of over-mighty bosses.
That is about to change with something more serious and scholarly, a drama as unashamedly highbrow as Michael Frayn's Democracy and described by one critic as "a mighty slab of history".
"No one expected Portland to compete," said Karen Brooks, the food critic who recently published "The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland," a definitive guide to Portland's scrappy, endlessly inventive food culture.
Taking the battle upstate Ammunition for the critics Laureates of the lariat The mighty bean Energiser money Shelter from the storm Out of the mouths of babes A tale of two barons ReprintsIt is no less romantic for that.
Guest struck gold again in 2003 with his movie A Mighty Wind, another mockumentary that was praised by critics and audiences alike.
