Critics of the novel have treated it as a romance intended mainly to entertain boys.

Critics and audiences alike may have failed to acknowledge Williams ' new style and novel approach to theater he developed during 1960s and refused to accept daring and different work from the playwright.

Critics often dub CCTV as " Big Brother surveillance ", a reference to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which featured a two-way telescreen in every home through which The Party would monitor the populace.

The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

Critics have argued that Luo Guanzhong's initial pronouncement " It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide " epitomizes the main theme of the novel.

Critics such as Elizabeth Freeman and Nicole Seymour view the novel as " queer " -- as challenging gender and sexual norms.

Critics further contend that food energy excess, rather than the consumption of specific novel foods, such as grains and dairy products, underlies the diseases of affluence.

Critics assert that Maggie's need for love and acceptance is her underlying motivation throughout The Mill on the Floss, and the conflicts that arise in the novel often stem from her frustrated attempts at gaining this acceptance.

Critics said he should have admitted his book was a fictional novel ) However, he finally achieved his permanent liberation in 1941, by using a bag of coconuts as a makeshift raft and riding the tide out from the island.

In an essay called “ The Formalist Critics ,” he says that “ the formalist critic assumes an ideal reader: that is, instead of focusing on the varying spectrum of possible readings, he attempts to find a central point of reference from which he can focus upon the structure of the poem or novel ” ( qtd.

Gilead is also the title of the 2004 award-winning novel ( 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award ) by American writer Marilynne Robinson.

Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize.

Critics have identified many underlying themes in the novel.

Her tenth novel, The Accidental Tourist, was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and was made into a 1988 movie starring William Hurt and Geena Davis.

Critics have analysed the role of terrorism in the novel.

Critics and Miller himself have claimed that Miller was influenced by the following in writing the novel:

Critics of pharamaceutical firms claim that pharmaceutical firms actively medicalize ; that is, they invent novel disorders and diseases which were not recognized as such before their " cures " could be profitably marketed, in effect pathologizing what were widely regarded as normal conditions of human existence.

His 1993 novel, A Lesson Before Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.

Critics praised the novel for its balanced depiction of both Hindus and Muslims, and readers loved its merciless portrayal of the Congress Party leaders on the make in British-free India.

He mentioned the novel in his long satire A Fable for Critics ( 1848 ) as " the first Yankee book / With the soul of Down East in't, and things farther East ".

Critics like Will Murray and David E. Schultz, in fact, have suggested that The Dream-Quest is in effect a second attempt at completing the abandoned novel Azathoth.

Critics, including his sister in her novel Ruth Hall, occasionally described him as being effeminate and Europeanized.

Critics as well as Ambler fans ( and the author himself in an Introduction to the novel ) have pointed out that The Dark Frontier was meant to be a parody of the brand of adventure thriller Ambler enjoyed as an adolescent but came to find rather silly when he reached adulthood.

Critics gave the play generally favorable reviews, stating that it captured the lyricism and dark tone of the novel.

Critics of academic elitism argue that highly-educated people tend to form an isolated social group whose views tend to be overrepresented amongst journalists, professors, and other members of the intelligentsia who often draw their salary and funding from taxpayers.

Critics of this ethics-driven approach to language tend to accept that idioms reflect underlying conceptual metaphors, but that actual grammar, and the more basic cross-cultural concepts of scientific method and mathematical practice tend to minimize the impact of metaphors.

Critics argue that slum clearances tend to ignore the social problems that cause slums and simply redistribute poverty to less valuable real estate.

Critics allege that test makers and facilitators tend to represent a middle class, white background.

Critics of governments from the public choice school argue that government public services tend to add more staff than they need, because they claim that government managers

Critics tend to agree that Charrière's depictions included events that happened to others and that Brunier was at the prison at the same time.

Critics from defenders of proprietorship sometimes assert that the All People's Right threatens the essence of ownership and the " management practices " of property owners, who may or may not have created and preserved environmentally important qualities Private owners and their representatives have also argued that newly created access rights ought to lead to financial compensation for private landowners, though they tend to also argue that there should be no corresponding compensation for people who historically tended now-expropriated land in common, with proven ecological records — for example, aboriginals.

Critics claim that the oak flavoring from chips tend to be one-dimensional and skewed towards the vanilla extract with the wines still lacking some of the physical benefits that barrel oak imparts.

Critics have claimed that this can tend to break up the natural family, but the Jesus Fellowship maintains that many relationships with parents have been strengthened and that the Fellowship encourages ( and the community pays for ) community members to visit relatives: including visits overseas if family members are abroad.

Critics tend to oppose the idea in tandem with other critiques on multiculturalism, saying that American needs to have a common culture in order to preserve a common " American " identity.

Critics of the Independent Gay Forum's writings tend to be drawn between a division between liberals and conservatives and a second division between conservatives and libertarians.

Critics and longtime Seger fans tend to regard the album as a lost classic, much like its predecessor Back in ' 72.

Critics tend to associate post-Zionism with anti-Zionism or postmodernism, both of which claims are strenuously denied by proponents.

Critics of laissez-faire since Adam Smith variously see the unregulated market as an impractical ideal or as a rhetorical device that puts the concepts of freedom and anti-protectionism at the service of vested wealthy interests, allowing them to attack labor laws and other protections of the working classes.

Critics see it as an upgrade to the entire nuclear weapons complex to support the production and maintenance of the new generation of nuclear weapons.

Critics also see parallels between sociobiology and biological determinism as a philosophy underlying the social Darwinian and eugenics movements of the early 20th century, and controversies in the history of intelligence testing.

Critics see the use of legally sanctioned force in involuntary commitment as a violation of the fundamental principles of free or open societies.

Critics of Haredi Judaism see it as a " reform " movement which has warped the values of traditional Judaism.

Critics, such as gay shame, charge the parades with an undue emphasis on sex and fetish-related interests which they see as counter-productive to LGBT interests, and exposing the " gay community " to ridicule.

Critics such as Bloom see cultural studies as it applies to literary scholarship as a vehicle of careerism by academics, instead of promoting essentialist theories of culture, mobilising arguments that scholars should promote the public interest by studying what makes beautiful literary works beautiful.

Critics such as Robert J. Sampson and Stephen Raudenbush of Harvard University see the application of the broken windows theory in policing as a war against the poor as opposed to a war against more serious crimes.

Critics of the movement, however, point to various discrepancies that result from current state standardized testing practices, including problems with test validity and reliability and false correlations ( see Simpson's paradox ).

Critics also argue that the empirical evidence shows that " predatory pricing " does not work in practice and is better defeated by a truly free market than by anti-trust laws ( see Criticism of the theory of predatory pricing ).

Critics see the conflict as a " quagmire "-- an endless waste of American blood and treasure in a conflict that did not concern US interests.

Critics of hacktivism fear that the lack of a clear agenda makes it a politically immature gesture, while those given to conspiracy theory hope to see in hacktivism an attempt to precipitate a crisis situation online.

Regarding the obvious gap between the movie's troubled production and its eventual triumph of aesthetic cinematic form on the screen, Jeff Swindoll wrote in his 2008 DVD Review of Munchausen for Monsters and Critics: " For the absolute hell that the production of the film turned out to be, you really don't see any of that tension on the screen.

Critics of Scientology have accused Hubbard of " loading the language " and using Scientology jargon to keep Scientologists from interacting with information sources outside of Scientology ( see cult for additional information ).

Critics of this policy primarily see this as a violation of free speech.

Critics of the system of inspection claim that the short amount of time in which HMI get to see the school does not accurately represent the day-to-day activities and can give a biased view.

Critics argue that ecological modernization will fail to protect the environment and does nothing to alter the impulses within the capitalist economic mode of production ( see capitalism ) that inevitably lead to environmental degradation ( Foster, 2002 ).

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Critics see Barlaam's elevation of philosophy above theology as being the reason for his condemnation by the Eastern Church:

Critics claim that participants fail to see the value in the programmes, and the programmes are not effective in equipping participants for work.

Critics maintain that such properties as intentionality fundamentally distinguish humans from animals or from “ things ” ( see Activity Theory ).

Critics of this approach, like philosopher Ken Wilber and religious scholar Huston Smith, see the more materialistic formulations of the approach as examples of reductionism and scientism that are only looking at the empirical aspects of the phenomena, and not including the possible validity of spiritual experience with all of its subjectivity.

Critics of Alamein Kopu, however, did not see the party as a genuine ideological organization.

Critics of Kenosis theology argue that the context of Philippians 2: 5-8 is referring to Jesus taking the form of a servant to conceal his divine glory ( revealed temporarily in the Transfiguration ), or to forsaking his place and position in heaven to dwell among men, as opposed to forsaking his divine attributes or nature ( see syncatabasis ).