Critics in the 18th century regarded Armide as Lully's masterpiece.

Critics praised Alla Demidova ( as Ranevskaya ) and Vladimir Vysotsky ( as Lopakhin ) powerful interplay ; in retrospect this short-lived duet is regarded to be easily one of the most dazzling in the history of the Soviet theater.

The New Critics regarded the language and poetic diction as most important, but the Chicago School considered such things merely the building material of poetry.

A highly regarded expert on international cinema, particularly French cinema, Stratton was President of FIPRESCI ( International Film Critics ) Juries in Cannes ( twice ) and Venice.

Today, Beverly Hills Cop is regarded as a classic in the comedy genre and holds an 84 % approval rating on the aggregate film website Rotten Tomatoes and 60 % when counting Top Critics.

Critics have praised Saadawi for exposing the subjugation of women in Middle Eastern societies, but Wen-Chin Ouyang notes that Saadawi's work and its popularity in Western countries is regarded with suspicion by Arab critics, who contend that Saadawi perpetuates negative Western stereotypes of Arab-Islamic male violence and domination and that her work has been neglected due to its literary shortcomings.

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.

Critics regarded Chapman as a certainty for the team.

Critics regarded his season as unsuccessful, but he was chosen as vice-captain to Hammond on the tour to Australia that winter, continuing his pre-war role.

Critics generally regarded her as a promising talent, and she won the ACM's Top New Female Vocalist in 1990.

Critics claim that Fernandes was not highly regarded by both the faculty and students, and many deeply suspect Jordan orchestrated her ascension for personal reasons.

Critics regarded this as an unjustified interference in an inter-dependent contractual matrix, contrary to the legitimate expectations of private investors in the railway.

Critics regarded him as one of the best in England in this position, but good catching was vital in a Surrey side which possessed weak bowling, making his contributions even more important.

Critics have commented that the reason for Thatcher entrusting him was because both of them regarded the Soviet Union as Britain's biggest adversary, while the United States was the most important ally, and therefore they could always head to the same direction when making diplomatic decisions.

Critics regarded these words as useless, usually requiring knowledge of Latin or Greek to be understood.

Critics of the SAP argue in favor of a weak anthropic principle ( WAP ) similar to the one defined by Brandon Carter, which states that the universe's ostensible fine tuning is the result of selection bias: i. e., only in a universe capable of eventually supporting life will there be living beings capable of observing any such fine tuning, while a universe less compatible with life will go unbeheld.

Critics have questioned whether not one, but perhaps two ghosts appear in this scene: Banquo and Duncan.

Critics, such as psychiatrist Niall McLaren, argue that the DSM lacks validity because it has no relation to an agreed scientific model of mental disorder and therefore the decisions taken about its categories ( or even the question of categories versus dimensions ) were not scientific ones ; and that it lacks reliability partly because different diagnoses share many criteria, and what appear to be different criteria are often just rewordings of the same idea, meaning that the decision to allocate one diagnosis or another to a patient is to some extent a matter of personal prejudice.

Critics have also stated that Misskelley's " confessions " were in many respects inconsistent with themselves and the particulars of the crime scene and murder victims, including ( for example ) an " admission " that Misskelley " watched Damien rape one of the boys.

" Critics compared the Socrates with Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling and Raphael's Stanze, and one, after ten visits to the Salon, described it as " in every sense perfect ".

Critics alleged that Sarkozy proposed to nominate Strauss-Kahn as managing director of the IMF to deprive the Socialist Party of one of its more popular figures.

Critics point to the apparent lack of commitment by foreign manufactures to any one country site or to the creation of permanent infrastructure and employment.

Critics argue that the Charter presents the history of German people as starting from the expulsions, while ignoring events like Holocaust: professor Micha Brumlik pointed out that one third of signatories were former devoted Nazis and many actively helped in realisation of Hitler's goals ; Ralph Giordano wrote in Hamburger Abendblatt " the Charter doesn't contain a word about Hitler, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

Critics at the end of the 19th century favoured the poem and placed it as one of Coleridge's best works.

Critics like Ken Binmore say that this cognitive dissonance is apparently not very strong, since people often knowingly ignore the interests of faraway societies quite similar to their own, and that the " ought " above only applies if one already accepts Singer's basic premises about the equality of various interests.

Critics, however, question how one can have the concept of a form existing in a special realm of the universe, apart from space and time, since such a concept cannot come from sense-perception.

Critics argue that the absolute majority obtained by the winner of runoff voting is an artificial one.

Critics charge that " rogue state " merely means any state that is generally hostile to the U. S., or even one that opposes the U. S. without necessarily posing a wider threat.

Critics have argued that if the test subjects are unable to count for some other reason ( perhaps because they are nomadic hunter / gatherers with nothing to count and hence no need to practise doing so ) then one should not expect their language to have words for such numbers.

Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation.

In 2001, YES YOKO ONO, a forty-year retrospective of Ono's work, received the prestigious International Association of Art Critics USA Award for Best Museum Show Originating in New York City, considered one of the highest accolades in the museum profession.

Critics of the latter idea point out that the half-life of Pu-240 is 6, 560 years and Pu-239 is 24, 110 years, and thus the relative enrichment of one isotope to the other with time occurs with a half-life of 9, 000 years ( that is, it takes 9000 years for the fraction of Pu-240 in a sample of mixed plutonium isotopes, to spontaneously decrease by half — a typical enrichment needed to turn reactor-grade into weapons-grade Pu ).

During the same time, Hanks won the Cleveland Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his 1978 performance as Proteus in Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona, one of the few times he played a villain.

Critics of multiculturalism often debate whether the multicultural ideal of benignly co-existing cultures that interrelate and influence one another, and yet remain distinct, is sustainable, paradoxical, or even desirable.

Critics contend the cameras violate drivers ' due process rights and two separate lawsuits have been filed over their use, one in Aventura filed in February, and one in Temple Terrace near Tampa, filed at the end of July.

Critics were quick to debate whether a reformed Heat team would have chemistry issues, were too old ( O ' Neal, Mourning and Payton were all in their mid-thirties ), or had too many underachievers ( Walker had a reputation of miserable shot selection ; Williams, one of turnover-prone playmaking ).

The film was chosen by the National Society of Film Critics as one of the 100 Essential Films.

Many film scholars consider Shadows one of the highlights of independent film in the U. S. In 1960 the film won the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival.

Critics considered the score to be Sullivan's finest, including its overture, which is in sonata form, rather than being written as a sequential pot-pourri of tunes from the opera, as in most of the other Gilbert and Sullivan overtures.

Critics acclaimed it as the finest recording of Show Boat ever made.

Critics praised the episode, and have continued to count it as one of the finest episodes of television ever broadcast.

Critics continue to regard his complete Schubert sonatas as amongst the finest recorded, not least for their unique Viennese lilt and unaffected ease.