Sentence examples for most telling criticism from inspiring English sources

The most cogent and sometimes the most telling criticism of modernists is that they make an arbitrary, unjustified leap from realistic figurative drawing to abstract mayhem: abstraction is thus supposedly the mask of artists who can't do the technical stuff.

For attempts to use island biogeography theory in reserve network design the most telling criticism came from Margules, Higgs and Rafe (1982) who pointed out both that the model had not been empirically established and that there were important disanalogies between biological reserves and islands.

That's probably the most telling criticism.

Roger Cohen ("In defense of Murdoch," Globalist, July 12) evades the most telling criticisms of the mogul's achievements: the abuse of power and dismal standards he has fostered in broadcasting and publishing.

Arguably the two most telling criticisms are (1) that its proportionality constraint cannot be met without sacrificing intuitive plausibility, and (2) that theoretical accounts of why wrongdoers positively deserve harsh treatment are inadequate.

By far, the most telling and influential of the criticisms both of the program, and then of analyticity in general, were those of the American philosopher, W.V. Quine, who began as a great champion of the program (see esp. his 1934), and whose subsequent objections therefore carry special weight.

Canada provides the most telling comparison.

And his most telling direction?

His most telling enthusiasm is for Parmigianino.

But the most telling tribute was unscripted.

The most telling lesson was from Agniewska.