Sentence examples for takes to task from inspiring English sources

In his autobiography, Burgess takes to task another writer who tackled Gibraltar – his idol, James Joyce.

Here Mee takes to task our notions of gender, as well as the tendency in popular theatre to view characters not as complicated beings but as cardboard props.

His latest of several books on population takes to task the United Nations and its recent predictions of a world that will explode to 10 billion people.

For instance, Zoe Williams (Opinion, 15 August) takes to task those she dismisses as Blairites who failed to encapsulate a radical agenda of change.

Our Letters editor takes to task this week's Independent coverage On Saturday, a production error resulted in the wrong grid for the Independent Codeword being printed.

But while it may ultimately reinforce as much as shake up the canon it takes to task, its relatively unfiltered view of art history is a wonderful thing to sort through.

(The book was taken to task for oversimplying matters.

Husbands are rarely taken to task for their wives' behavior.

Yet he has also been taken to task.

"I was taken to task by Norman Mailer about my approach to writing novels," Ellis goes on.

However the RGT has been taken to task for being too close to the industry.