Moreover, if the critic instructs his audience in what to see in a work, he is contributing to this pseudo-thinking ; ;

He was seldom an unmethodical critic, and his reviews generally followed a systematic pattern: a description of what the work contained, a treatment of the things that had especially interested him in it, and, wherever possible, a balancing of whatever artistic merits and faults he might have found.

Congress had already appropriated money, and plans were well along to tear down the buildings flanking Lafayette Square and replace them with what one critic calls the `` marble monumentality '' of government office buildings.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

Love received critical acclaim, a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, and a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, for what film critic Roger Ebert called " quite a performance ; Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress ".

Since then he has been a harsh critic of clumsy bank policies and argued that no one should be able to do what he did.

" The critic Pauline Kael called De Mille " a sanctimonious manipulator-used to satisfy the voyeuristic needs of the God-abiding by showing them what they were missing by being good and then soothe them by showing them the terrible punishments they escaped by being good.

Mann did some of his most celebrated work with cinematographer John Alton, a specialist in what critic James Naremore describes as " hypnotic moments of light-in-darkness ".

Among the first venues for what would soon be called " Off-Off-Broadway " ( a term supposedly coined by critic Jerry Tallmer of the Village Voice ) were coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, in particular, the Caffe Cino at 31 Cornelia Street, operated by the eccentric Joe Cino, who early on took a liking to actors and playwrights and agreed to let them stage plays there without bothering to read the plays first, or to even find out much about the content.

In her next-to-last movie, Hellcats of the Navy ( 1957 ), she played nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair and shared the screen for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called " a housewife who came along for the ride ".

The record included the number one U. S. Alternative hit " Fat Lip ", which incorporated verses of what one critic called " brat rap.

Although movie critic Roger Ebert was not impressed with most of the other actors, he writes in his review, " ... we discover once again what a warm and engaging actor Peter Falk is.

Likewise, the critic claims it is unclear what it means to say that an apple participates in applehood.

During his early period, Heinlein's writing for younger readers needed to take account of both editorial perceptions of sexuality in his novels, and potential perceptions among the buying public ; as critic William H. Patterson has put it, his dilemma was " to sort out what was really objectionable from what was only excessive over-sensitivity to imaginary librarians ".

Kavner's emotional performance in the movie got positive reviews and one critic said she " gave what must be the most heartfelt performance ever.

As a critic of both fascism and what he called the culture industry, his writings — such as Dialectic of Enlightenment ( 1947 ), Minima Moralia ( 1951 ) and Negative Dialectics ( 1966 )— strongly influenced the European New Left.

The mumblecore film genre, which began in the mid-2000s, and uses video cameras and relies heavily on improvisation and non-professional actors, has been described as influenced in part by what one critic called " the spring-break psychodrama of MTV's The Real World ".

This was the first book Balzac released under his own name, and it gave him what one critic called " passage into the Promised Land ".

For others, such as U. S. film critic Andrew Sarris, it takes on mystical meanings related to the emotional tone of a film: " Dare I come out and say what I

Uncle Tom became what critic Linda Williams describes as " an epithet of servility " and the novel's reputation plummeted until feminist critics led by Jane Tompkins reassessed the tale's female characters.

Hymes considers literary critic Kenneth Burke his biggest influence on this latter work, saying, “ My sense of what I do probably owes more to KB than to anyone else ”.

Madness and Civilization ( 1961 ) postulated that conceptions of madness and what was considered " reason " or " knowledge " was itself subject to major culture bias-in this respect mirroring similar criticisms by Thomas Szasz, at the time the foremost critic of psychiatry, and himself now an eminent psychiatrist.

Literary critic Terry Eagleton is not wholly opposed to Cultural Studies theory like Bloom, but has criticised certain aspects of it, highlighting what he sees as its strengths and weaknesses in books such as After Theory ( 2003 ).

" British-American philosopher Max Black, an influential critic of general semantics, called this neurological delay the " central aim " of general semantics training, " so that in responding to verbal or nonverbal stimuli, we are aware of what it is that we are doing.

Another critic calls him " one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music " ( Hewett 2007 ).

Luis Benitez-Bribiesca M. D., a critic of memetics, calls the theory a " pseudoscientific dogma " and " a dangerous idea that poses a threat to the serious study of consciousness and cultural evolution ".

Literary critic James Wood calls him " cruel in punishment, evasive in argument, lusty for power, and repressive in politics ".

He continues to receive praise from film scholars: critic Leonard Maltin calls Tracy " one of the 20th century ’ s finest actors ", while film historian Jeanine Basinger describes his career as a " golden record of movie achievement ".

Film critic David Thomson calls the film " a superb, languid fantasia on the theme of the gangster film that repays endless viewing.

" Film critic Roger Ebert calls it " just about everyone's favorite Woody Allen movie ".

Film critic Leonard Maltin calls Cassavetes ' second version of Shadows " a watershed in the birth of American independent cinema ".

Lafforgue is a critic of what he calls the " pedagogically correct " in France's educational system.

Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick expressed what Schonberg calls " the majority point of view " in an 1884 review.

Many consider it his best work ; critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls Hot August Night " the ultimate Neil Diamond record ... shows Diamond the icon in full glory ".

Both " Leaving It Up To You " and " Fear Is A Man's Best Friend " ( from Fear ) begin as relatively conventional songs that gradually grow more paranoid in tone before breaking down into what critic Dave Thompson calls " a morass of discordance and screaming ".

American writer and literary critic Maud Newton on reading the book wrote, " I was surprised, having only a vague negative impression of Farrell before reading Your Voice in My Head, at how charming, intelligent, and likeable he seems — before he calls things off and stops returning her texts, anyway.

Mountain Xpress critic Ken Hanke calls it " Childhood memory stuff of the most compelling kind ".

" On the back cover of the same collection, editor and critic Constance Rooke calls Brand " one of the very best in the world today ", and goes on to " compare her to Neruda or — in fiction — to Saramago.

Culshaw performs prank telephone calls, impersonating among others Tom Baker's incarnation of the Doctor, Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, art critic Brian Sewell and talk show presenter Michael Parkinson.

A. H. Weiler, film critic for The New York Times, wrote, " Though The Killing is composed of familiar ingredients and it calls for fuller explanations, it evolves as a fairly diverting melodrama.

Film critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a mixed review, writing, " In telling the picaresque story of a mystery writer on the trail of a Levantine bum whose career of crime in the Balkans has stimulated the writer's awe, the film wallows deeply in discourse and tediously trite flashbacks ... To be sure, the Warner schemists have poured some scabby atmosphere into this film and have been very liberal with the scenery in picturing international haunts and Balkan dives ... This sort of worldly melodrama calls for refinement in cinematic style, but the writing and direction of this picture betray a rather clumsy, conventional approach.

In his book, critic Leonard Maltin calls the film a " slick comic thriller " and approves of the acting, warning, " Not recommended for anyone who's ever covered their eyes during a movie.

A later critic, applying a Talmudic witticism to Judah, has said: " It is hard for the dough when the baker himself calls it bad.

Bosley Crowther, critic for The New York Times, calls it a " delicious little satire on Edwardian manners and morals " in which " the sly and adroit Mr. Guinness plays eight Edwardian fuddy-duds with such devastating wit and vraiety ( sic ) that he naturally dominates the film.

A frequent critic of the WBC is political commentator Bill O ' Reilly, who regularly calls the church " evil and despicable ".

Grijalva has gained prominence as an outspoken critic of what he calls lax federal oversight of the oil drilling industry, and in late 2010 launched an investigation of the White House's handling of the Horizon spill and its aftermath.

The Intentional Fallacy, according to Wimsatt, derives from “ confusion between the poem and its origins ” ( Verbal Icon 21 ) – essentially, it occurs when a critic puts too much emphasis on personal, biographical, or what he calls “ external ” information when analyzing a work ( they note that this is essentially the same as the “ Genetic fallacy ” in philosophical studies ; 21 ).