His remarkable powers of concentration and attention to detail made him an outstanding editor, and these qualities also meant that he was much in demand as a reader of colleagues' unpublished work, where his generosity and sharp editorial eye combined to produce at once a formidable and a supportive critic.
It does bear the compromises and conventions that routinely afflict biographical dramas — the editing of life into events, the reordering of facts to make a dramatic or political point (the supportive critic Carl Van Vechten, played by Oliver Platt, comes off poorly here), a more than usually generous use of montage to hurry the story along.
Absent such unique personal prerogatives, board members are expected to serve as supportive critics of the strategy in place.
Graduating seniors, along with returning students, presented their designs on the runway to a sold-out crowd of very positive and supportive critics and fashionistas.
Among the few supportive critics was the poet Théodore de Banville; writing in Le National, he applauded Bizet for presenting a drama with real men and women instead of the usual Opéra-Comique "puppets".
Wyman stated in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter that the Fox network had been "supportive throughout this process", and though the show's viewership "wasn't exactly what they would've hoped for", aspects such as a loyal fan base and supportive critics were enough to take the show forward for another season.
AMC's "The Killing," about the grisly murder of young Rosie Larsen, was pronounced dead at the end of a troubled two-season run that included declining ratings amid a revolt by once-supportive critics and fans over what they perceived to be the failed promise to end the first season by revealing the identity of the killer.
The thing that was so fascinating about the Far East tour was how the audiences in Hong Kong, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea responded to the music very similarly to audiences in the U.S". Does it bother him that a few less-than-supportive critics have dubbed him "Yawni?" Not at all, because Yanni has been greeted in almost every venue with sold-out congregations of enthusiastic fans.
Cézanne's most ambitious portrait, of a supportive art critic, Gustave Geffroy, from 1895-96, is unfinished.
Ms. O'Donnell's house of worship is not especially discriminating; she can be supportive of shows critics adore, like "Kiss Me, Kate," and ones they disdain, like "Aida".
Each new editorial in the state-run press and efforts to muzzle critics supportive of Mr. Liu only feed foreign news reports about the government's strong-arm tactics.
