When art critics decried his work as tired and derivative, van Meegeren felt that they had destroyed his career.

Also relating to Blood Omen 2, IGN's Aaron Boulding regarded his pompous nature as his " one personality trait ", and considered it comedic, while Matt Casamassina felt Kain was " cool ", but decried his visual design as " flamboyant to the point of being comical ".

While church and state decried them as immoral and subversive, and the accompanying dance as lascivious, the people felt the jarabe represented them and their political aspirations.

He decried the genre as an attempt to " turn fiction into social theory ," and an attempt to tell us " how the world works rather than how somebody felt about something.

" He faced constant opposition at court from factions centered around leading members of other families, notably the Pandes, who decried what they felt was his craven submission to the British.

Sophia was especially troubled by what she felt was his hypocritical philosophy: he decried wealth, but had his own fancy estate.

Some people, including students and teachers, believed that this action was far too extreme and decried the action giving it a moniker of Book Banning.

" While paying tribute to American success, ingenuity, and generosity to people in need abroad, Sinclair decried that when America faced crisis itself, it often seemed to face that crisis alone.

After 1906 Snowden became increasingly active in supporting women's suffrage, being one of the national speakers for the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ; she decried the concentration on such things as dresses, jewels and cake recipes and wrote a book called " The Woman Socialist " in 1907 which advocated state control of marriage, joint title by women to the housekeeping money, and a state salary for mothers ; she also wanted housekeeping organised collectively in each street and declared that under socialism women would have " no need to paint face and tint hair ".

This is common in situations which may otherwise be decried nationally and internationally as a human rights violation or suppression of a political dissident.

Critics decried poorly planned transportation which left spectators waiting for hours in freezing weather, and some athletes complained about lousy accommodations at the Olympic village, where the dorms would later be turned into a prison.

The opinion among experts in the field was by no means unanimous ; David Irving for example, initially decried them as forgeries but subsequently changed his mind and declared that they could be genuine, but then finally stated that they were, in fact, a forgery.

Nebraska Republican Senator Norris Brown publicly decried the Court's decision, and instead proposed specific language to remove the Pollock requirement that certain income taxes be apportioned among the states by population.

Antonio Baretti commented in 1768 that individuals “ of weight and consideration ” should not be blamed for condemning “ those puny gentlemen ” who, as enthusiasts of Italian opera, were able to “ feel its minuet niceties, and to be of course in rapture with the languishing Cecchina ’ s of Piccini .” This modern music, Baretti decried, “ far from having any power of increasing courage or any manly virtues, has on the contrary a tendency towards effeminacy and cowardliness .”

Although the artist claims to be himself a practicing Catholic, Bill Donohue decried the work as " hate speech ", " garbage ", and " one of the worst assaults on Christian sensibilities ever ," describing Mr. Cavallaro as a " loser artist " and telling him in a television interview on Anderson Cooper 360, " You're lucky I'm not like the Taliban, because you would lose more than your head.

Because the RCP is highly critical of the Soviet Union, which it views as state capitalist and social-imperialist, the RCP has often traded polemical criticisms with the pro-Soviet CPUSA, as well as Trotskyist groups that have rejected the view of the Soviet bloc as state capitalists to be decried in favor of " deformed workers states " to be defended.

In his brief, Weismann decried the idea that " the treasured freedom of the individual ... should be swept away under the guise of the police power of the State.

Israeli officials claimed that the collision was accidental and occurred after the ship was informed they wouldn't be allowed to enter Gaza and tried to outmaneuver the patrol boat ; they decried McKinney's actions as being irresponsible and provocative for the sake of propaganda.

Controversial Negro works on two distinct levels: firstly it ’ s a timely reminder to the journalistic ' squares ' of far simpler times, when Jagger and his Rolling Stones ( now untouchable old-guard stalwarts ) were similarly decried for ' bastardizing the blues '; secondly, it ’ s a forceful visual communiqué that the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion staunchly refuse to be intimidated into artistic compromise.

The world in all the dimensions of its being is the basis for all our wonder, awe, and inquiry .” Loomer decried theological certainty and delighted in the wonder of existence: “ Final answers are not to be trusted.

He wrote popular articles for the Italian state that decried the rationalism of industrialized 1930s-1940s Europe and yearned for an authentic existence in touch with nature, that he claimed could be found in Asia.

He suggests that the downsides of technology decried by late 19th century critics such as John Ruskin, can be solved with human creativity, and shows us how in the architecture of this house.

Commercial cloning has been decried by the Humane Society and some other animal welfare groups, which argue that it is unethical for people to obtain pets through commercial sources when so many homeless pets remain in shelters or live as strays, and that the money spent on pet cloning would be better spent on the vaccination and care of those animals.

He also questioned what he perceived to be Woodfull's coldness towards him since the Bodyline series and decried unnamed " fellow pressmen, naturally jealous ".

Dimitri Soudas, spokesman to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, decried Flanagan's comments and said the former Tory strategist " should be charged with incitement to commit murder.

What shall be aid of the state of things when it is remembered that the writer is a man decried, persecuted, and proscribed ; not being much valued, even by his own party, and by half the nation considered as little better than an ingenious madman?

However, the game was found to be prone to slow-downs in detail-heavy areas, and one reviewer decried the inability to pause the game during Impact battles.

After the beating death of a prominent farmer in September 2011, the head of the Commercial Farmers ' Union decried the attack saying its white members continue to be targeted by violence without protection from the government.

It is important to recognize that this position was formulated in response to the primacy placed on ethnicity by the Anti-Manchu movement, which sought to assert the illegitimacy of the Qing dynasty based in part on the fact that its members were part of an ethnic minority out of touch with the Han majority, a position which Anarchists of all four major groups decried as racist and unbefitting a movement that claimed to be working for liberation.

Lévi-Strauss in anthropology systematised a structuralist analysis of culture in which the individual subject dissolved into a signifying convention ; the semiological work of Roland Barthes ( 1977 ) decried the cult of the author and indeed proclaimed his death ; while Lacan's structuralist psychoanalysis inevitably led to a similar diminishment of the concept of the autonomous individual: " man with a discourse on freedom which must certainly be called delusional ... produced as it is by an animal at the mercy of language ".

If it is not even clear anymore what those principles are, a failure may be hailed as a success, or a success decried as a failure, giving rise to intense disputes about their real significance.

Many attempts have been made to close it as politicians, international human rights organizations, prisoner advocate groups and even corrections officers have decried its overcrowding and inadequate facilities.

In that same year, Edmund Burke famously decried the " thousands of those hell-hounds called terrorists " who he believed threatened Europe.

Pope Pius XII decried those who would go back to ancient liturgical rites and usages, discarding the new patterns introduced by disposition of divine Providence to meet the changes of circumstances and situation.

" He decried the best relievers pitching fewer innings starting in the 1980s with their workload being reduced from two-to one-inning outings while less efficient pitchers were pitching those innings instead.

The statement decried " the lamentable disgracing and expulsion of those who doubted " Maciel's virtue.

A 1947 delegation to Washington, D. C. decried the Export-Import Bank's refusal to forgive and delay dues on millions of dollars of outstanding debts, including those accrued during the United States occupation.

Other signs appeared, including several which decried the system of ' proxy votes ' for members unable to attend the anti-merger meeting ( it was speculated by some of those who opposed the merger proposal that proxy votes would help the pro-merger cause ).

This same year, sports journalist Jay Mariotti decried the negative reactions of Chicago Cubs fans to the Steve Bartman incident, which went as far as sending Bartman and his family death threats, and commented that they were making Cubs fans look like " those mopes from the Superfans skits on Saturday Night Live.

Inevitably, those who opposed their modernist project were decried as motivated by self-interest rather than a desire to uplift their fellow Muslims.

Post-processualism provided an umbrella for all those who decried the processual model of culture, which many feminist and neo-Marxist archaeologists for example believed treated people as mindless automatons and ignored their individuality.

They decried those who accepted the conditions attached to the Quattuor abhinc annos indult, applying to them the term " Indult Catholics ", and frequently did not recognise them as fellow traditionalists.

He decried the efforts of those who sought to investigate the structure of the body, or to watch the phenomena of disease, and he is said to have directed his attacks particularly against the writings of Hippocrates.

Each time, however, he was ultimately forced out, being harassed and attacked by those who either decried him as a heretic and for trafficking with demons, or sought justice for people he ’ d kidnapped to use for fodder in his experiments.