Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean and Spike Lee, son of jazz bassist Bill Lee and a long time critic of Eastwood, criticized the characterization of Charlie Parker remarking that it did not capture his true essence and sense of humor.

Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith criticized the sketch, saying, " Jon Stewart's unfortunate and inaccurate depiction of Bayonne represents a lame attempt at humor at the expense of a rock solid, all-American community.

It featured a wealth of material that criticized the violent, careless direction that hip hop was heading in at the time, though it still managed to maintain a light, absurd sense of humor.

This has been criticized as an aggregate of self-esteem, sense of purpose, social interest and kindness, sense of humor and aesthetic appreciation.

Some praised the film's effects, scenery, and tongue-in-cheek humor, while others criticized the acting, " forgettable " or " cardboard " characters, inaccuracies, and " boring " start.

The book was praised for its imitativeness and humor, but was also criticized for its underdeveloped plot and somewhat abrupt ending.

He was distinguished by his knowledge, intellect, sense of humor and conversational skills, and although his style has been criticized as wordy and obtuse, he was one of the more popular Japanese writers in the late Showa period.

Reviews that criticized the episode's inconsistent humor blamed it on the change of writers before the episode's creation.

Many criticized the sequel as lacking any element of the humor and slapstick action of the original, and for taking itself " too seriously ".

His current show is one of the most watched, although he is often criticized for his controversial humor.

" Critics of both Popmatters and IGN criticized the first few episodes but felt the show regained its humor after " Don't Make Me Over " which included this episode.

The anthropic principle is often criticized for lacking falsifiability and therefore critics of the anthropic principle may point out that the anthropic principle is a non-scientific concept, even though the weak anthropic principle, " conditions that are observed in the universe must allow the observer to exist ", is " easy " to support in mathematics and philosophy, i. e. it is a tautology or truism

He also specifically criticized what he called " pan-halakhism ", or an exclusive focus upon religiously-compatible behavior to the neglect of the non-legalistic dimension of rabbinic tradition.

" Tal Cohen of Tal Cohen's Bookshelf called The Edge of Human " a good book ", praising Jeter's " further, and deeper, investigation of the questions Philip K. Dick originally asked ", but criticized the book for its " needless grandioseness " and for " rel on Blade Runner too heavily, the number of new characters introduced is extremely small ..."

Friedrich Nietzsche criticized the phrase in that it presupposes that there is an " I ", that there is such an activity as " thinking ", and that " I " know what " thinking " is.

He described Hubbard as " absolutistic and authoritarian ", and criticized the Hubbard Dianetic Research Foundation for failing to undertake " precise scientific research into the functioning of the mind ".

Although his work has been criticized for the lack of candor in checking the " facts ", some of his text has been confirmed by recent research, like the spectacular remains of Roman gold mines in Spain, especially at Las Medulas, which Pliny probably saw in operation while a Procurator there a few years before he compiled the encyclopedia.

Among the goals of ethnology have been the reconstruction of human history, and the formulation of cultural invariants, such as the incest taboo and culture change, and the formulation of generalizations about " human nature ", a concept which has been criticized since the 19th century by various philosophers ( Hegel, Marx, structuralism, etc .).

Alfred Korzybski criticized the use of the verb " to be ", and stated that, " Any proposition containing the word ' is ' its other forms ' are ,' ' be ', etc.

In December 2007, the Archbishop of Wales Barry Morgan criticized what he referred to as " atheistic fundamentalism ", claiming that it advocated that religion has no substance and " that faith has no value and is superstitious nonsense.

Despite the fact that Brite's first novel was criticized by some mainstream sources for allegedly " lack a moral center: neither terrifyingly malevolent supernatural creatures nor ( like Anne Rice's protagonists ) tortured souls torn between good and evil, these vampires simply add blood-drinking to the amoral panoply of drug abuse, problem drinking and empty sex practiced by their human counterparts ", many of these so-called " human counterparts " identified with the teen angst and goth music references therein, keeping the book in print.

In a post-colonial reading, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, famously criticized Heart of Darkness in his 1975 lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's " Heart of Darkness ", saying the novella de-humanized Africans, denied them language and culture and reduced them to a metaphorical extension of the dark and dangerous jungle into which the Europeans venture.

" Marcuse's 1965 essay " Repressive Tolerance ", in which he claimed capitalist democracies can have totalitarian aspects, has been criticized by conservatives.

During his presidency, many abolitionists harshly criticized him as an instrument of the " Slave Power ", and claimed that spreading slavery was the reason he supported annexing Texas and later war with Mexico.

Others criticized it as an " English invention ", although Rayleigh jokingly corrected them to state it was actually an invention of the Royal Institution.

The Worldwatch institute has also criticized the fast-track approval process for " kindler, gentler dams with smaller reservoirs, designed to lessen social and environmental impacts ", claiming that no project should " fast-track the licensing of new dams in Amazonia and allow projects to circumvent Brazil's tough environmental laws ".

The term " medicine man / woman ," like the term " shaman ", has been criticized by Native Americans, as well as other specialists in the fields of religion and anthropology.

" Metzger also criticized the addition of your into, so it becomes " Though it &# x5b ; the mustard seed &# x5d ; is the smallest of all your seeds ", avoiding any impression of Jesus's speaking a botanical untruth.

It included the singles " Welcome To The Terrodome ", " 911 Is a Joke ", which criticized emergency response units for taking longer to arrive at emergencies in the black community than those in the white community, and " Fight the Power ".

Richard Wiseman has criticized the parapsychological community for widespread errors in research methods including cherry-picking new procedures which may produce preferred results, explaining away unsuccessful attempted replications with claims of an " experimenter effect ", data mining, and Retrospective data selection.

In May 1989, Arafat, in a statement later criticized by Edward Said as being beyond his authority, and properly a matter for the PNC, told a French TV interviewer " C ' est caduc ", meaning that it, the Charter, was null and void.

Khomeini has been criticized for these acts and for human rights violations of Iranians ( including his ordering of execution of thousands of political prisoners ;), but also lauded as a " charismatic leader of immense popularity ", and a " champion of Islamic revival " by Shia scholars.

In 1948 Prokofiev was criticized for " anti-democratic formalism ", and with his income severely curtailed was forced to compose Stalinist works such as On Guard for Peace.

" In a mixed review, Option commended the album's " sheer listenability ", " clear recording and dynamic performances ", but criticized Dulli's subject matter and panned the band's cover of " The Temple ".

Blues purists criticized the album's psychedelic sound.

" However, Browne criticized the album's lyrics, calling them " mostly jumbled rehashes of standard Young imagery.

However, the album also attracted criticism ; Allmusic criticized the album's overuse of drum machines and synthesizers.

In their retrospective review, Allmusic criticized the album's " big drum sound and big rock arrangements ", which they said " threaten at times to overshadow Hay's songwriting and singing.

" They criticized the album's dated production and the lack of a single to compare to their 1970s hits, but argued it to be one of Kansas's most focused efforts.

This attempt polarized critics some whom criticized the record for sounding un polished while others applauded the album's intuitive nature.

" Stephen Holden of The New York Times criticized the album's " melodrama " and " formulaic romantic bombast ".

" A few of the album's songs are somewhat similar to the ones found in Play, but the tracks were criticized as inferior.

" Andrew Bonazelli of CMJ New Music Monthly criticized the album's " soul-deadening production " as well as string arrangements for several songs being a " contrived lunge towards accessibility.

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