Sentence examples for pure criticism from inspiring English sources

It has come to be known as "Pure Criticism" (qingyi), which reflects the judgment of later writers (mainly Confucian scholars) that the movement was motivated by pure intentions and aimed at cleaning up corrupt practices in the Han government.

While some deliberately refrained from commenting on their contemporaries or current affairs to avoid recrimination, many others continued the tradition of "Pure Criticism" in assessing the worth of individuals and fought for their ideals.

Besides "Pure Criticism," the roots of Pure Conversation probably should also be traced to the kind of rigorous debates among scholar-officials on the classics established at least since the first century C.E. Historical sources tell us that such debates were held at court, in which the victor would take over the seat of the vanquished.

They mistook the post as pure criticism and responded on the show today.

Instead I learned to produce pure literary criticism — and to limit myself to writing about the literature of the past.

He incarnates the purest impulse of criticism which, as H. L. Mencken said, is "to make an articulate noise in the world".

Carries as baggage: A reputation for being more of a deal maker and an executive than a pure technology expert, a criticism already circulating on Silicon Valley Web sites.

AIG, an American insurer, has proposed a change to the rulebook so that companies and their auditors would put only their own estimates of maximum losses into the profit-and-loss account.A lot of the criticism is pure cant.

Deleuze considered these latter works as pure philosophy, and not criticism, since he sought to create the concepts that correspond to the artistic practices of painters, filmmakers, and writers.

From a pure efficacy perspective these criticisms are valid.

It is criticism of Israel, pure and simple.