Sentence examples for practical critic from inspiring English sources

But in turn the practical critic has helped preserve traditional rhetoric for the analyses of traditional literature, and through his work on modern literature, he has stimulated the demand for a new rhetoric.

A practical critic might argue that someone spending more than $25,000 for a sporty hatchback might as well step up to a Mazdaspeed 3, Volkswagen GTI or Ford Focus ST, all of which have the performance chops to match their pocket-rocket image.

Its aim is to shift the emphasis from the idea of Leavis as a "practical critic" or as a proponent of "minority culture" (although he was both) and place it on him as a conceptual reformer.

Early seminal works in the tradition were those of the English critics I.A. Richards (Practical Criticism, 1929) and William Empson (Seven Types of Ambiguity, 1930).

As noted at the opening of this article, modern literary critics have helped to free rhetoric from its traditional emphasis by proving its instrumentality in literary analysis—"practical criticism," as the English critic I.A. Richards called his 1929 book on the subject.

But his senior advisers say Obama's policies are consistent with a largely non-ideological view of the post-9/11 world that is more practical than critics on the right, led by former vice president Richard B. Cheney, have suggested.

Second, the source of this confidence seems to be practical, that critics must immanently discover those transformative agents whose struggles take up these normative contents of philosophy and attempt to realize them.

In practical terms, the critics are charg ing that, far from restraining inflation in 1967 and 1968, the Federal Reserve actual ly promoted it, with the con sequence that last year, in terest rates were far higher than they otherwise would have been, and that this year unemployment may be great er, and profits lower.

Writing about the event, the always practical but startling dance critic Edwin Denby noted, "The fact that Miss Adams is white and Mr. Mitchell Negro is neither stressed nor hidden; it adds to the interest".

Owning or co-owning a restaurant is very practical for a food critic.

Other critics raise practical concerns with Pay for Success, including concern that organizational capacity of a service provider can be temporarily built up by a contract but "not build the organizations' capacity to support that growth" (Wallace, 4).