I'd say that the virtue of auteur criticism is its approach to the question of why the devil they made it: a well-directed movie is one that reveals the terms of the director's personal involvement in it.
None is the paragon of moral or journalistic virtue that their criticisms this week might suggest.
Civic virtue can include harsh criticism, protest, even civil disobedience.
Despite the criticism, "Civic Virtue" remained in place, in part because politicians were leery of demolishing something on which $60,000 had been spent.
Commentary on the arts that sways too far to either direction threatens to be ignored altogether, further weakening the institution of art criticism by virtue of irrelevance.
A wry, outspoken iconoclast, Freeman had, however, crossed one of Washington's red lines by virtue of his strong criticism of the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
This has led to the criticism of virtue ethics as being too demanding and thus obtainable only by an elite group of people [ 27].
Courage is not a virtue frequently associated with the criticism beat, but it lies near the heart of Kael's achievement — not because she was unsqueamish about praising and slamming movies (though she was) but because, from the time she wrote her first review until the moment she retired, in 1991, her authority as a critic relied solely on her own, occasionally whimsical taste.
In the writings of the early natural law theorists, Greek views of virtue sometimes came under strong criticism.
The reason for this, al-Raziq claims, is because the Caliphs, imbued as they were with the virtue of divine authority, actively discouraged criticism and political thought.
