An early and articulate critic was the noted author Damon Knight.

One critic noted, " That slammed door reverberated across the roof of the world.

This was noted at the time by art critic and author Émile Zola, who offered his opinion:

Joachim Pissarro notes that virtually every reviewer who commented on Pissarro ’ s work noted “ his extraordinary capacity to change his art, revise his position and take on new challenges .” One critic writes:

18 Poems was noted for its visionary qualities which led to critic Desmond Hawkins writing that the work was " the sort of bomb that bursts no more than once in three years ".

* Torsten Hägerstrand ( 1916 – 2004 ), critic of the quantitative revolution and regional science, noted figure in critical geography.

Prominent critic and noted musicologist Richard Taruskin called the work " anti-American, anti-Semitic and anti-bourgeois.

The movie received generally favorable reviews, and San Francisco Chronicle critic Peter Stack noted in his review that Dunst " beautifully balances innocence and wantonness.

" In the Los Angeles Times review, critic Kenneth Turan noted that Dunst and Maguire made a real connection on screen, concluding that their relationship involved audiences to an extent rarely seen in films.

" As critic Jack Tinker noted in the Daily Mail: " The performance is not so much downright bad as heroically ludicrous.

" However, whilst a few historians chose to challenge her theories, most simply chose to ignore them as irrelevant, and as later folklorist and vocal critic of the theory Jacqueline Simpson noted, " Normally this is an effective technique for ensuring the oblivion of bad books, but in this case it backfired, since it left her theory free to spread, seemingly unchallenged, among an eager public.

Crowther said that Davis " does nicely as the fiancée who is widowed herself and knows the loneliness of grief ," while another noted critic, The Washington Post < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Richard L. Coe, said Davis " is splendid as the understanding widow.

TV Guide film critic Maitland McDonagh noted that in the film Cruz " expertly mines the contrast between chic, compliant, white-clad Anna and funky, street-smart Melody, who treats Freeman's character Gary like the world-class drag he is.

In a meeting with Teller and Lowell Wood, a critic noted that the Soviets could easily defeat the system by attacking the satellite, whose only defense was to destroy itself.

George Templeton Strong noted in his diary: " People say the plot's immoral, but I don't see that it's so much worse than many others, not to speak of Don Giovanni, which as put on the stage is little but rampant lechery ", while the Evening Post critic wrote: " Those who have quietly sat through the glaring improprieties of Don Giovanni will hardly blush or frown at anything in La traviata.

While some aspects of the production may have been unusual, one critic noted that " placing the ( Polovtsian ) Dances as a Finale is an elegant idea, [...] the director Andrejs Zagars and the conductor Noam Zur have thus presented a musically and dramaturgically coherent Prince Igor.

Chicago Tribune critic Chris Jones, noted in his review of the Broadway musical, " Bloody, Bloody, Andrew Jackson " that the hybrid had become the most viable of the contemporary formats.

Kemble's productions made use of lavish spectacle and scenery ; one critic noted that during the bedroom scene, the bed was so large that Jachimo all but needed a ladder to view Imogen in her sleep.

Music critic Jon Savage pinpointed Be Here Now as the moment where Britpop ended ; Savage said that while the album " isn't the great disaster that everybody says ," he noted that " t was supposed to be the big, big triumphal record " of the period.

The noted science fiction author and critic Damon Knight wrote:

The noted critic Olin Downes wrote, “ Mr. Ravel has pursued his way as an artist quietly and very well.

A later critic noted the sharp contrast between his hesitant conversations and his fluent speaking styles, adding that Calhoun " had so carefully cultivated his naturally poor voice as to make his utterance clear, full, and distinct in speaking and while not at all musical it yet fell pleasantly on the ear.

The noted science-fiction writer and critic James Blish was no fan of Heinlein's treatment of his first-person protagonists in a number of his novels.

Paal Brekke was particularly noted for promoting modern European poetry, both as poet and critic.

As The Plain Dealer music critic Michael Norman noted, " It was $ 65 million ... Cleveland wanted it here and put up the money.

Durkheim noted long ago that religion as `` a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things unites into one single moral community all those who adhere to them ''.

" A formal defection of this kind was then noted in the register of the person's baptism, an annotation that, like those of marriage or ordination, was independent of the fact of the baptism and was not an actual " debaptism ", even if the person who formally defected from the Catholic Church had also defected from the Christian religion.

Halliday, an expert on ancient religion, dismissed her theory, and noted that her hypothesis relied upon " documents torn from the background of their own age and divorced from the serious study of their historical antecedents.

However, after entering the academic profession she rejected religion, gaining a reputation amongst other members of the Folklore Society as a noted sceptic and a rationalist.

Margot Adler noted how there were many pagan groups whose practices revolved around the inclusion and celebration of male homosexuality, such as the Minoan Brotherhood, a Wiccan group that combines the iconography from ancient Minoan religion with a Wiccan theology and an emphasis on " men-loving-men ", and the eclectic pagan group known as the Radical Faeries.

In a similar way, the nationes were segregated by the Knights Hospitaller of Jerusalem, who maintained at Rhodes the hostels from which they took their name " where foreigners eat and have their places of meeting, each nation apart from the others, and a Knight has charge of each one of these hostels, and provides for the necessities of the inmates according to their religion ", as the Spanish traveller Pedro Tafur noted in 1436.

In Whitehead's Science and the Modern World ( 1925 ), he noted that the human intuitions and experiences of science, aesthetics, ethics, and religion influence the worldview of a community, but that in the last several centuries science dominates Western culture.

It was already noted by DuBois that, in making the difference between races, it is not race that we think about, but culture: “... a common history, common laws and religion, similar habits of thought and a conscious striving together for certain ideals of life ”.

Cross-national studies on religion and science have noted that countries with high religiosity also have stronger faith in science, while less religious countries have more skepticism of the impact of science and technology.

The series ' use of magic, as noted by religion professor Gregory Stevenson, neither promotes nor denigrates Wiccan ideals and Willow rejects Wiccan colleagues for not practicing the magic she favors.

Finally, the noted comparative religion scholar Mircea Eliade speculated that this conflict is actually a later version of an Indo-European myth concerning the conflict between and eventual integration of a pantheon of sky / warrior / ruler gods and a pantheon of earth / economics / fertility gods, with no strict historical antecedents.

Debs was noted by many to be a charismatic speaker who sometimes called on the vocabulary of Christianity and much of the oratorical style of evangelism – even though he was generally disdainful of organized religion.

When he firmly re-asserted the scholastic doctrine that science and religion co-exist, he required the study of Thomas Aquinas and opened the Vatican Secret Archives to qualified researchers, among whom was the noted historian of the Papacy Ludwig von Pastor.

Indeed, when these Native Americans were last encountered by subsequent settlers, they noted that these Native Americans already spoke English and were aware of the Christian religion.

The Romanian historian of religion Mircea Eliade also noted that Arada, along with Irodiada, was a name used for a Romanian folkloric Queen of the Fairies ( Doamna Zinelor ), whom he believed was a " metamorphosis of Diana ".

Eliade is noted for his attempt to find broad, cross-cultural parallels and unities in religion, particularly in myths.

It must be also noted that the Mithras mysteries, so closely connected with the Persian religion, are acquainted with this doctrine of the ascent of the soul through the planetary spheres ( Origen, Contra Celsum, vi.

Over 26 % of the population in Wales did not note a religion in the 2001 census ( 18. 53 % stated ' no religion ' and 8. 07 % are noted as ' Religion not stated ').

It should be noted, though, that there's no acceptance to Spiritism in mainstream science and that its belief system fits with the definition of religion ( that doesn't include regular frequency, membership, formal adoration ).

While early King's X albums were commonly laced with Christian themes regarding belief and spirituality-mostly in an uplifting manner-Dogman takes a more open and disillusioned approach to religion, as noted by a now agnostic Pinnick in a 2006 interview:

Rather, they noted that he distributed his wealth in the service of religion.

It is noted that the lowland Lacandón have all but abandoned the historical religion while those in the highlands still practice some traditional rituals.

A U. S. law magazine noted how Jehovah's Witnesses had helped shape the course of constitutional law, remarking: " Through almost constant litigation this organization had made possible an ever-increasing list of precedents concerning the application of the 14th amendment to freedom of speech and religion ".