Their popularity inspired Diderot's Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville ( 1772 ), a scathing critique of European sexual hypocrisy and colonial exploitation.

) The letters were also scathing in their critique of the casuistry of the Jesuits, echoing Arnauld's Théologie morale des Jésuites.

The song " Time for Truth " from The Jam's debut album, In the City, a scathing critique of the state of the British nation, directly addresses Callaghan: " I think it's time for truth, and the truth is you lost, Uncle Jimmy.

Long considered part of the repertory of classic “ drawing room ” theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing critique of the hypocrisies of Victorian / Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley ’ s Socialist political principles.

However, three years later, in 1766, Kant wrote and anonymously published a small book entitled Träume eines Geistersehers ( Dreams of a Spirit-Seer ) that was a scathing critique of Swedenborg and his writings.

* Marie Winn, whose notebook triggered Dottos exposure and demise, eventually became a journalist whose books include The Plug-In Drug, a scathing critique on television's influence over children.

Alhazen wrote a scathing critique of Ptolemy's model in his Doubts on Ptolemy ( c. 1028 ), which some have interpreted to imply he was criticizing Ptolemy's geocentrism, but most agree that he was actually criticizing the details of Ptolemy's model rather than his geocentrism.

His critique of the Boer War was especially scathing, and it contributed to his declining popularity in Britain.

Soon after, Debord issued a typically scathing response denouncing both Vaneigem and his critique of the Situationist International.

They were moved to respond by their studies of poetic modernism and by H. L. Mencken's scathing critique of Southern culture.

In 1927, English author C. E. M Joad, published The Babbitt Warren, a scathing critique of American society.

Fulbright's scathing critique undermined the elite consensus that U. S. military intervention in Indochina was necessitated by Cold War geopolitics.

He received a reply in which Jefferson first recommended authors to read on government and history, then issued a scathing critique of newspapers:

Another commentator added his own scathing critique.

In his two 1932 books, On the Disadvantages of Being Educated and Other Essays and Theory of Education in the United States, Nock launched a scathing critique of modern government-run education.

Although Döblin's 1920 epic about the Thirty Years ' War was in general favorably received by critics, he was disappointed with the reception because he felt he had created in Wallenstein a peerless work ; as a consequence, he wrote a scathing critique of critics which he published in 1921 under the title Der Epiker, sein Stoff und die Kritik ( The Epic Poet, his Material, and Critique ).

In a typical example of a critique from within the left, Michael Albert and Stephen R. Shalom writing on October 24, 2002 for Z, about a then-impending nationwide set of demonstrations ( called by ANSWER ), begin their discussion with a scathing critique of the views of Workers World, IAC, and ( by implication ) ANSWER.

" Part scathing critique, part call to action, ' Independent Media In A Time Of War ', argues that dialogue is vital to a healthy democracy.

His most recent works include Predadores, a scathing critique of Angola's ruling classes, O Quase Fim do Mundo, a post-apocalyptic allegory, and O Planalto e a Estepe, a look at Angola's history and connections with other former communist nations.

Smugtown USA by G. Curtis Gerling ( Plaza Publishers 1957, reprinted 1993 ) is a scathing critique of the city's 1940s and 1950s culture.

Winn is the author of the influential The Plug-In Drug ( 1977 ), an often scathing critique of television's addictive influence on the young, Winn wrote, " The television experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and enter into a pleasurable and passive mental state.

In 2010, Red Letter Media delivered a scathing video critique of the film, drawing negative comparisons to The Three Stooges, Looney Tunes, and Home Alone.

This prompted his first book An Essay on Naval Discipline ( 1813 ) a scathing critique of the brutal authoritarian

" It is a " scathing, sarcastic, comprehensive critique of slavery in the American South, race prejudice in the American North, and religious hypocrisy in the American notion as a whole.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

The magazine has since excised the article from subsequent editions of the Illustrated History book ; a transcription of it can be found at the link below ( despite his scathing view of Young's career, Marsh gave the album the highest possible rating ).

Because his task was to construct the wilful choices of his Punch editors, who probably took their cue from The Times and would have felt the suggestions of political tensions from Parliament as well, Tenniel ’ s work, as was its design, could be scathing in effect.

Frankenheimer's 1996 film The Island of Doctor Moreau, which he took over a few weeks into production from Richard Stanley, was the cause of countless stories of production woes and personality clashes and received scathing reviews.

Meanwhile some of the more recent sources listed ( Lemesurier, Gruber, Wilson ) have been particularly scathing about later attempts by some lesser-known authors and Internet enthusiasts to extract alleged hidden meanings from the texts, whether with the aid of anagrams, numerical codes, graphs or otherwise.

Scottish author Hugh Blair's 1763 A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian upheld the work's authenticity against Johnson's scathing criticism and from 1765 was included in every edition of Ossian to lend the work credibility.

The American group wrote a scathing response to the findings of the TWG, stating that they had given too much emphasis on the results from the Dubna group.

While the film received scathing reviews from critics, it was a modest box office success, garnering over $ 130 million worldwide.

May was also scathing of Prenter, who was Mercury's manager from the early 1980s to 1984, for being dismissive of the importance of radio stations, such as the US networks, and their vital connection between the artist and the community, and for denying them access to Mercury.

Aristophanes, in The Frogs, pokes fun at Theramenes ' ability to extricate himself from tight spots, but delivers none of the scathing rebukes one would expect for a politician whose role in the shocking events after Arginusae had been regarded as particularly blameworthy, and modern scholars have seen in this a more accurate depiction of how Theramenes was perceived in his time ; Lysias, meanwhile, who mercilessly attacks Theramenes on many counts, has nothing negative to say about the aftermath of Arginusae.

Roy resigned from the board of directors in 2003 with a scathing letter that called the company " rapacious and soulless ", adding that he considered it to be " always looking for the quick buck.

Garry Wills argued in 1978 that the phrasing of the Declaration of Independence was due largely to Hutcheson's influence, but Wills's work suffered a scathing rebuttal from Ronald Hamowy.

Some of the most scathing criticism came from the railway industry itself — namely the commercially successful Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ), which argued that its taxes should not be used to fund a competitor.

But after scathing reviews and a drop in ticket sales from the first film, Warner Bros put the series of movies on hiatus, canceling Schumacher's next planned Batman movie Batman Triumphant.

He opposed most of the measures brought forward by the ministry of William Pitt, and objected to the grant of a pension to Edmund Burke, an action which drew down upon him a scathing attack from Burke ’ s pen.

The most scathing review came from The Argus James Smith, who said the 9 by 5s were " destitute of all sense of the beautiful " and " whatever influence it was likely to exercise could scarcely be otherwise than misleading and pernicious.

Even exports from Portugal went mostly through expatriate merchants like the English port wine shippers and French businessmen like Jácome Ratton, whose Memoirs are scathing about the efficiency of his Portuguese counterparts.

In April 1754 Townshend was transformed from the position of a member of the Board of Trade, which he had held from 1749, to that of a Lord of the Admiralty, but at the close of 1755 his passionate attack against the policy of the ministry, an attack which shared in popular estimation with the scathing denunciations of Pitt, the supreme success of Single-Speech Hamilton, and the hopeless failure of Lord Chesterfield's illegitimate son, caused his resignation.

Arab historiography praises Mleh's policy, acknowledging that he benefitted more from the alliance than did Nur ad-Din, but Christian, particularly Armenian, historiography is scathing because of this Muslim alliance, wrongly identified with apostasy.

Cai Chusheng was under massive pressure from tabloid reporters, who was extremely hostile owing a scathing depiction of the Shanghai tabloids in the movie.

Daily Telegraph correspondent and blogger Gerald Warner has been particularly scathing about Cameron's leadership, arguing that it is alienating traditionalist conservative elements from the Conservative Party.

Subject matter ranges from the main characters ' adventures ( both present and past ) to contemporary commentary to political statements, and often makes its points in scathing and offensive fashion: for instance, in the debut strip, the strip's main character offers his opinion of an ex-girlfriend by giving her a coat hanger as a baby shower present ( alluding to its use as an instrument in back-street abortions ).