The film / story criticizes the decadence of Egyptian society during the Nasser era.

When he decries Bentham's application of the ' yard measure ' of now to ' the past, present and future ', he decries the implication that society, and people, have always been, and will always be, as they are now ; that is, he criticizes essentialism.

Writer Sally Miller Gearhart calls this sort of fiction political: it contrasts the present world with an idealized society, criticizes contemporary values and conditions, sees men or masculine systems as the major cause of social and political problems ( e. g. war ), and presents women as equal to or superior to men, having ownership over their reproductive functions.

Black criticizes work for its compulsion, and, in industrial society, for taking the form of " jobs " -- the restriction of the worker to a single limited task, usually one which involves no creativity and often no skill.

Ármann Jakobsson has argued that it is " difficult to find a man whose manhood is not vulnerable " and that Njáls saga criticizes the norms of a misogynist society by showing that the ideal of masculinity can be so restrictive that it becomes oppressive to men and destructive to society.

The author criticizes the wastefulness of western society and frequently remarks on the ethics of work and industrial capitalism.

Chapter 6: Friedan criticizes functionalism, which attempted to make the social sciences more credible by studying the institutions of society as if they were parts of a social body, as in biology.

In the same book, Lukacs criticizes legalized abortion, pornography, cloning, and sexual permissiveness, as marking what he sees as the increasing decadence, depravity, corruption and amorality of modern American society.

In the tradition of true hip-hop, Upsurt speaks for the “ common man ” living the simple life, criticizes politicians and popular artists, mocks the status quo and points out what the real, unspoken problems are in Bulgarian society.

The novel criticizes the socio-political effects on society at large from the use of computers to run massive simulations, which predict the public reaction to certain ( proposed ) political moves before implementing them.

A lengthy epilogue follows the story, in which Victor Hugo criticizes the lack of proportionality as between education and criminal punishment, and the cruel French society of the nineteenth century.

The novel also criticizes the emasculation of men in society, particularly in the character of Billy Bibbit, the stuttering acute who is domineered by both Nurse Ratched and his mother.

He strongly criticizes both the hypocrisies of class and religion and the economic inequities of German society.

Plutarch criticizes Anaximenes, together with Theopompus and Ephorus, for the " rhetorical effects and grand periods " these historians implausibly gave to men in the midst of urgent battlefield circumstances ( Praecepta gerendae reipublicae 803b ).

Malachi also criticizes his audience for questioning God's justice.

Irish poet Seamus Heaney's Casualty ( published in Field Work, 1981 ) criticizes Britain for the death of his friend.

Clement criticizes Greek paganism in the Protrepticus on the basis that its deities are both false and poor moral examples, and he attacks the mystery religions for their obscurantism and trivial rituals.

Therein, Plotinus criticizes his opponents for their appropriation of ideas from Plato:

Plotinus criticizes his opponents for “ all the novelties through which they seek to establish a philosophy of their own ” which, he declares, “ have been picked up outside of the truth ”; they attempt to conceal rather than admit their indebtedness to ancient philosophy, which they have corrupted by their extraneous and misguided embellishments.

He criticizes the riches of the popes, believing that it would be better for the Gospel to be most important.

Writer William Cronon criticizes the modern environmental movement for having a romantic idealizations of wilderness.

Alain Pellet, an international law scholar, criticizes " human rightism " approach as denying the principle of sovereignty and claiming a special place for human rights among the branches of international law ; Alain de Benoist questions human rights premises of human equality.

In the same conversation, he criticizes The New York Times review of the film, which mistakes his message for being a call for voter organizing rather than media critique.

In some of his work in particular his provocative lecture on " The Nation State and Economic Policy " delivered in 1895, Weber criticizes the immigration of Poles and blames the Junker class for perpetuating Slavic immigration to serve their selfish interests.

Betty Friedan, in the Feminine Mystique, openly criticizes Mead for contributing to infantilizing women through functional anthropology, in Chapter 6, " The Functional Freeze, The Feminine Protest, and Margaret Mead.

However, the guide criticizes Phillips ' sourcing of fibres for paper, arguing it must develop a paper procurement policy which excludes suppliers involved in deforestation and illegal logging.

A nonfiction essay that is embedded in There Will Be Time and attributed to the book's fictional protagonist, but seems to reflect Anderson's own views, sharply criticizes the American Left of 1972 ( when it was written ) for two instances of a double standard: for neglecting to address human rights violations in the Soviet Union and for failing to notice Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

" She criticizes proponents of the unitary executive for expanding " the many existing uncheckable executive powers – such as executive orders, decrees, memorandums, proclamations, national security directives and legislative signing statements – that already allow presidents to enact a good deal of foreign and domestic policy without aid, interference or consent from Congress.

Posner criticizes privacy for concealing information, which reduces market efficiency.

While Guildenstern criticizes the Player for his portrayal of death, he believes the Player's performance when Guildenstern thinks he has stabbed him with a knife.

Horatian satire, named for the Roman satirist, Horace ( 65 BCE – 8 BCE ), playfully criticizes some social vice through gentle, mild, and light-hearted humour.

::: Reprehends a person who criticizes others for defects which are also his own, maybe even more acutely so.

He criticizes the Mass of Paul VI for what he calls its " Protestantizations ", such as referring to the service as a " supper " with a " table " and " cup " instead of a " sacrifice " with an " altar " and " chalice ", making the congregation, in his view, the center of worship instead of God, and so forth.

Ronald Hutton criticizes this conclusion as unfounded ; he argues that the assembly of royalty and warriors on Samhain may simply present an ideal setting for the exposition of such tales in the same way that many tales of Arthurian Romance are set at courtly gatherings of Christmas or Pentecost.

It criticizes " false teachers " who distort the authentic, apostolic tradition, and predicts judgment for them.

China scholars generally agree that Deng's interpretation of Maoism preserves the legitimacy of Communist rule in China but at the same time criticizes Mao's brand of economic and political governance.

The Dixie Chicks paid tribute by recording Darrell Scott's song " Long Time Gone ", which criticizes Nashville trends: " We listen to the radio to hear what's cookin ’/ But the music ain't got no soul / Now they sound tired but they don ’ t sound Haggard ," with the following lines mentioning Johnny Cash and Hank Williams in the same vein.

" Larison, in the same piece, also criticizes the claim of D ' Souza that Obama is anti-business, noting a lack of evidence for this claim.

Paul Teunissen's review of the same book criticizes Elst for the unfavourable portrayal of Syed Shahabuddin.

In the same month as the second edition was published, Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a piece in The Critical Review, an important literary magazine of the day, in which he both praises and criticizes the novel harshly.

Gudeman not only rejects the formalist notion of the universal ' economic person '; he also criticizes the substantivist position for imposing their universal model of economics on all preindustrial societies and so making the same mistake as the formalists.

During the mid-1990s, it began to give credit to the positive progress made in mainland China, and by the late-1990s, it began to criticize wrongdoings within the Chinese democracy movement and in the West in the same manner with which it criticizes corruption within the Chinese communist regime.

In the same place, he criticizes the film for portraying Morrison's ideas as " muddled through the haze of the drink ".

" In Mao: A Reinterpretation, a work sympathetic to Mao, Prof. Lee Feigon criticizes Snow's account for its perceived inaccuracies, but at the same time praises Red Star for being " seminal portrait of Mao " and relies on Snow's work as a critical reference throughout the book.

These guidelines must remain neutral in relation to the subject of the speech at hand ( i. e., a speech that criticizes government action and is believed to violate a law must be treated the same way as a speech under identical circumstance, but praises the government as opposed to criticizing.

Putnam considers the argument in the two last sections as independent of the first four, and at the same time as Putnam criticizes Quine, he also emphasizes his historical importance as the first top rank philosopher to both reject the notion of apriority and sketch a methodology without it.

In the same book, he is charmed by the unattractive Peggy Alcazar ( wife of General Alcazar ) and kisses her hand after she bluntly criticizes Tintin and Haddock ( a remark which Calculus mistakes for a warm greeting ).

The Dipavamsa criticizes the Mahasangitikas ( who are the same as the Mahasanghikas ) for rejecting various texts as non-canonical: the Parivāra ; the 6 books of the Abhidhamma ; the Patisambhida ; the Niddesa ; part of the Jatakas ; and some verses.

In the letter 25, which was not included with the original twenty-four, Voltaire criticizes certain ideas of Blaise Pascal by taking citations from his Pensées and giving his own opinion on the same subject.

Scott further criticizes Johnson's approach, which assumes science and evolution can be treated the same way as a criminal trial.

Myers also criticizes Auster for saying the same thing too many times ; he states: " Swing the hammer often enough, and you're bound to hit the nail on the head sometime — or so Auster seems to think.

At the same time, however, he criticizes both Cartesian theory and behaviorist theory for being overly mechanistic.

In his 2009 review of Roman Catholic priest-scholar Kevin P. Spicer's Hitler's Priests: Catholic Clergy and National Socialism, he praises the book's admirable qualities but criticizes the work for its failure to distinguish between the small minority of " brown priests ", those priests who unequivocally supported the Nazi regime, with those who whom he considers to be " fellow travellers ", i. e. accepting the benefits that came with the Reichskonkordat but who failed to condemn the Nazi regime at the same time.