Sentence examples for negative reviewing from inspiring English sources

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The intellectuals' inability to affect the social currents and political trends they obsessed over was a driving force behind their negative reviewing.

Yes, we're all a bit sensitive to negative reviewing these days; but if you're going to sit in judgment on anyone, it shouldn't be the critics.

One of the main points of the controversy that has arisen since the two Times Book Review reviews has been, indeed, about the relative merits of positive and negative reviewing.

Others opposed to negative reviewing including Laura Miller (a close friend of mine), at Salon, whose argument arises from her conviction that ordinary readers don't really care about literary culture — that there's no longer a cultural context in which a negative review could really matter.

"Any call to eliminate negative reviewing," he wrote, "is to infringe catastrophically on the larger project of criticism: if a critic takes seriously his obligation to pass judgments — which, merely statistically, are likely to have to be negative as well as positive — his sense of responsibility to those judgments and their significance has to outweigh all other considerations".

I didn't realize how strong my revulsion against negative reviewing had become until some months ago I read, in the New York Times, an essay by the critic Clive James titled "Whither the Hatchet Job?" James laments the inability of American critics to lay into their scrivening colleagues with the exuberance practiced by their British counterparts.

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(It drew mostly negative reviews).

It received largely negative reviews.

Each negative review surprised and hurt Wallace.

Go online and write negative reviews.

'A few negative reviews in hundreds?

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