Contemporary reviews all praised the play's humour, though some were cautious about its explicit lack of social messages, while others foresaw the modern consensus that it was the culmination of Wilde's artistic career so far.

Contemporary reviews were largely positive apart from negative comment because the music was electronic.

Though he had few performances of his music, and the BBC, the International Society for Contemporary Music ( ISCM ) Festival and the publishers Boosey & Hawkes all turned down the Concerto for Double String Orchestra ( later to be one of his most popular works ), a private recording of the First Piano Sonata by Phyllis Sellick attracted favourable reviews.

Contemporary reviews called it ' racy ' but found it excellent and especially praised Swanson's acting.

Contemporary reviews were polite and warm.

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Contemporary reviews, dedications, letters and poems all refer to her ability to affect the listener deeply.

From 1853 to 1862, he lived in Saint Petersburg, and became the chief editor of Sovremennik (" Contemporary "), in which he published his main literary reviews and his essays on philosophy.

Contemporary reviews, however, were mixed ; while appreciating Faulkner's writing style, they stressed the book's seeming lack of consistency and its loose plot.

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Contemporary reviews were very positive.

The album opened to extremely positive reviews and charted at No. 94 on the Billboard 200, marking St. James ' first Top 100 album, and No. 5 on the Contemporary Christian chart.

Contemporary reviews of the Prestige were favourable.

Contemporary reviews for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket were generally unfavorable.

His fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in the New Yorker, Harpers, Review of Contemporary Fiction, London Magazine, Gangway, Granta, Stand, Bananas, Overland, Meanjin, Southerly, Quadrant, London Review of Books, San Francisco Review of Books, New Statesman, Essays in Criticism, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Oxford Review, Modern Language Review, Griffith Review, Nation Review, National Times, the Australian, the Bulletin, the Sydney Morning Herald & c.

Contemporary reviews uniformly praised the Fairmont and it was favorably compared with contemporary Volvo and BMW models.

Contemporary sources have given mixed reviews, with a rating of 58. 33 % from GameRankings.

Contemporary reviews of By Dawn's Early Light centered on the confrontation by nuclear powers and gave it accolades.

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Contemporary reviews described it as " 3D Monster Maze, is the best game I have seen for the Sincair ZX81.

Contemporary reviews of the record call it " far-out " ( Billboard, August 29, 1970 ) and a " random collection of editing room snippets recorded at the Mothers ' concerts " ( Rolling Stone, October 1, 1970 ).

Contemporary reviews suggest a broadcast slot of 60 minutes, which would make the version broadcast somewhat shorter than the current video release.

Contemporary reviews of the 1947 Verona performances of La Gioconda verify that Tucker's success considerably surpassed Callas's, a fact overshadowed by the soprano's eventual worldwide acclaim.

He founded and edited a journal that was dedicated exclusively to psychology book reviews, Contemporary Psychology.

In March 2008, the United States Department of State published a report to Congress, " Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism ", that described Return to Castle Wolfenstein as an " anti-Semitic video game " with no qualifications.

Contemporary ethical debate is often described as " secular ", with the work of Derek Parfit and Peter Singer, and even the whole field of contemporary bioethics, having been described or self-described as explicitly secular or non-religious.

Contemporary mathematical empiricism, formulated by Quine and Putnam, is primarily supported by the indispensability argument: mathematics is indispensable to all empirical sciences, and if we want to believe in the reality of the phenomena described by the sciences, we ought also believe in the reality of those entities required for this description.

" Contemporary society may be described as a knowledge society based on the extensive penetration of all its spheres of life and institutions by scientific and technological knowledge " ( Stehr 2002b: 18 ).

Contemporary linguistic anthropology continues research in all three of the paradigms described above.

Amongst the strongest critics of Froude's biographical work was novelist Margaret Oliphant, who wrote in the Contemporary Review of 1883 that biography ought to be the " art of moral portrait painting " and described the publication of Jane Carlyle's papers as the " betrayal and exposure of the secret of a woman ’ s weakness.

Contemporary Western news reports described the orbital mission of Soyuz 3 in the same manner as the Soviets, referring to a successful " rendezvous " with Soyuz 2, but characterizing it as a test with no actual ship-to-ship docking planned.

McEntire's music has been described to not only be built upon traditional country music, but also expand into the genres of Country pop, Mainstream pop, Soul, Adult Contemporary, and R & B.

The author of Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music has described P. O. D.

Bell ( 2003 ) presented more evidence of this lacking third stage and described the " Contemporary Adventure Model of a Rites of Passage " as a modern and weaker version of the rites of passage typically used by outdoor adventure programs.

Contemporary writers described the loss as " the most serious and complete defeat ever experienced by the colonial forces " and " the most disastrous affair that ever took place in New Zealand ".

Giddens replied that a structural principle is not equivalent with rules, and pointed to his definition from A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism: " Structural principles are principles of organisation implicated in those practices most " deeply " ( in time ) and " pervasively " ( in space ) sedimented in society ", and described structuration as a " mode of institutional articulation " with emphasis on the relationship between time and space and a host of institutional orderings including, but not limited to, rules.

Featured on the cover of the January 1981 issue of Contemporary Keyboard magazine ( a story that was reprinted in Contemporary Keyboards book on the greatest rock keyboardists ), DeYoung described many of his steps along the way through his keyboard-playing career: He'd never played an acoustic piano until the recording session for 1972's " Lady "; he recorded the track for 1979's " Babe " in a friend's basement on a Rhodes electric piano he'd never touched before ; the odd feeling of switching back to playing accordion for the song " Boat On The River " and discovering how small the keys felt to his fingers after years of playing electric organs and pianos.

Contemporary accounts described Lazarus as courteous and handsome but for his brother who just dangled before him.

The " Contemporary Civilization " course of the time has also been described as a direct response to the US entry into the war, seeking to encourage US involvement by stressing the importance of Western civilization.

Contemporary Byzantine accounts also support the Western sources: Patriarch Neilos described Algirdas as fire-worshipping prince ; another Patriarch Philotheos excommunicated all Ruthenian noblemen, who helped impious Algirdas.

Contemporary marketing literature described the Grafton as a " Tone poem in ivory and gold ".

As Contemporary Christian Music ( CCM Magazine ) described it, " GLAD's elegant vocals helped set them apart from other pioneers of Contemporary Christian music.

Author Paula Christian described her inspiration to write during this period: " Contemporary fiction showed such instability, violence, and sensationalism ... I simply wanted to show the other side.

Contemporary Puritan writers in the Marprelate tracts allude to Dr John Bridges, Dean of Salisbury, author of A Defence of the Government of the Church of England, as the reputed author of Gammer Gurton's Needle, but he obviously could not be properly described as " Mr. S ".