Sentence examples for standard criticism from inspiring English sources

The standard criticism of Wallace's work is that for all its peerless pyrotechnics, it lacked heart.

The standard criticism of the smart city concept is that it's all talk and no action.

At rallies today, Mr. Gore went further than his standard criticism that Mr. Bush would squander the nation's budget surplus on a "risky tax scheme".

The standard criticism core gamers throw at titles like Farmville is that they're not really games; they are virtual cyclical activities with no genuine sense of competition.

The standard criticism of Favo was that he worked too hard — he seemed never to go home — and that he wanted to do everything himself and would not delegate responsibility.

So we seem to be stuck.The standard criticism of the BIS line, as advanced by Martin Wolf in the FT today, is that it fails at the aggregate level.

In a 2010 interview in the depths of recession, Nobel laureate Tom Sargent refused to accept any of the by then standard criticisms of macroeconomics, insisting instead that the critics showed "woeful ignorance or intentional disregard for what much of modern macroeconomics is about and what it has accomplished".

His plan is to take on "10 of the most standard criticisms of Marx and try to refute them one by one".

There are three standard criticisms of the program: It is a subsidy to low-wage employers, and low-wage employers should be discouraged; it penalizes working-class two-earner families; and it is overly bureaucratic and complicated.

One by one, he bats away the standard criticisms of Scargill's leadership of the strike: that it was ill-advised to commence the strike in the spring, that he should have held a national ballot ("The miners weren't calling for a ballot – the people who were calling for a ballot were our enemies"), and that in returning to work without an agreement, the miners were left in an impossible position.

And so many of the standard criticisms of roguelikes apply here: sometimes it can feel like success is down more to finding a great weapon in the first chest you hit than any actual ability on your part, and the die-rinse-repeat loop appeals more if you're a fan of chasing high scores than if you just want to play a game start to finish.