In his speech he turned criticisms about authoritarianism on their head, saying that new state powers were guarantors of liberty, not threats to it.
This question also perplexed 15 Republican presidential candidates in 2016, and in the end, Trump proved victorious by turning criticisms into fat shaming, women bashing and comparing the size of his privates.
She turned criticism into a performative gesture, a stylization of desire akin to that of Garbo or Dietrich.
Analysts have turned criticism of the Cowboys into a cottage industry, lauding the team's individual talent while labeling the bunch as underachievers.
The recovery hype thereby functions as a massive "blame-the-victim" program, in which a dysfunctional capitalism escapes criticism, while its victims instead turn criticism inward upon themselves.
Although Gab's relationship to the white supremacists who congregate there can be contentious at times, Torba is extremely good at turning criticism of the platform — and the extreme views it houses — into calls to action and attention.
Miliband's success in turning criticism of his "anti-business" stance into a row about tax avoidance – helped by the timely HSBC scandal – may boost Labour's ratings among its core vote nationally and do the party no harm among the Scots who have switched from it to the SNP, or those Labour has lost to the Greens.
At one extreme, governments such as Malaysia's have hoped to turn criticism of the IMF's performance during the crisis in Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea into the foundations of a new Asian Monetary Fund that would dish money out with fewer pesky conditions.
ATLANTIC, Iowa, Aug. 16 — Senator Barack Obama has moved in recent weeks to sharpen his tone noticeably as he fights for the Democratic presidential nomination, increasingly drawing sharp contrasts with his rivals and seeking to turn criticism of his foreign policy credentials into a fresh argument for change.
The effect of Edel's analysis, either way, is to turn criticism into sleuthing, for when James's feelings are said to be so clearly reflected in "Confidence," the central question — does this book succeed as a work of art? — is no longer central.
