Sentence examples similar to spirited critics from inspiring English sources

Throughout his tenure, Mr. Curtis was a spirited critic of the New Deal and any program that smacked of social welfare.

In The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days, spirited critic Mark Edmundson drew the biography of the master of psychoanalysis during the Nazi siege of Europe.

His motive, he maintained, had never been mercenary; it had been to salvage the respect and adulation that had been unfairly denied Hatto — by mean-spirited critics and by her unfortunate illness.

At 10, she landed a role in the Off-Broadway production "Ruthless," based on the movie "The Bad Seed," an evil role that some mean-spirited critics say she is still playing.

Early response to "Apollo's Angels" has been spirited, with critics driven to both high praise and high pique.

Another digital trick involved a nearby bar where Keaton's character confronts the New York Times' mean-spirited theater critic (Lindsay Duncan).

The most spirited – and eminent – critic of looming London has been Simon Jenkins.

Yet while this throwback Cinderella may not enjoy the questing action-adventure of the ass-kicking heroines of Brave or Frozen (the Frozen Fever short provides a crowd-pulling curtain-raiser), she is more independent-spirited than her critics have acknowledged.

With criticism of the police infusing the Democratic race to succeed him, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday offered a staunch defense of the New York Police Department, as well as a spirited attack against its critics.

Man Booker prize-winning author Hilary Mantel delivered a spirited attack on her critics after the BBC was condemned over plans to broadcast her "mischievous" short story on the imagined assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

Umar's Twitter feed showed she had recently engaged in spirited exchanges with her critics and reposted a tweet from someone claiming to have reported her to the police.