In the National Review, John Simon observed, " The music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse conquer new depths of ineptitude, and having these nonsongs done mostly in voice-over as interior monologues adds pretentiousness to their basic awfulness ," while Rex Reed opined that " to insinuate that Leslie Bricusse's plodding score is merely dreadful would be an act of charity.

Other newspapers called Mackenzie's score " a comic oratorio ", " devoid of memorable tunes " or " peculiarly unattractive, almost entirely devoid of humour, strangely wanting in charm, brightness, fizz and spontaneity " and opined that " some of the best lines were appropriated to the most severe music ".

Walter Kerr opined that preserving the original score was vital to the character of a revival, stating, " the only reason for remounting vehicles that have half-vanished ... is to get beyond all that is dated into the specific textures of the scores that haven't ... there's no point for enduring banality in a book if all you're going to get in return is a random rummage through an attic that produces a perhaps bountiful but essentially characterless heap ".

Furthermore, he opined that art should not be judged by the medium for which it is created ( i. e., there is no " high " art or " low " art — just art ).

Shigeru Egami, Chief Instructor of Shotokan Dojo, opined " that the majority of followers of karate in overseas countries pursue karate only for its fighting techniques ... Movies and television ... depict karate as a mysterious way of fighting capable of causing death or injury with a single blow ... the mass media present a pseudo art far from the real thing.

While conceding that he saw no artistic merit in some violent video games, King also opined that such games reflect the violence that already exists in society, which would not be lessened by such a law, and would be redundant in light of the ratings system that already exists for video games.

" He also opined that the later Civil War was inflicted on the nation as punishment for its aggression in Mexico.

Journalist John Nichols opined in The Nation that the Koch brothers have provided funding to ALEC for " decades " in a " savage assault on democracy ".

Discussing the role of fortune-telling in society, Ronald H. Isaacs, an American rabbi and author, opined, “ Since time immemorial humans have longed to learn that which the future holds for them.

He opined that for television " thing " could appear as a disembodied head that rolled through the house on various ramps and pulleys.

Thus, he opined that " the German government declared itself ready for friendly relations with the Soviet Union, whereas the English-French war bloc desires a war against the socialist Soviet Union.

Charlie Brooker once opined in his Screen Burn columns that one of his new policies for the BBC were he put in charge would be to " let Paxman actually hit people ", describing this as " self-explanatory ".

A leading German newspaper opined " that Hochhuth did not require any KGB assistance for his one-sided presentation of history.

Extant Suryasiddhanta supports the notion of trepidation within a range of ± 27 ° at the rate of 54 " per year according to traditional commentators, but Burgess opined that the original meaning must have been of a cyclical motion, for which he quoted the Suryasiddhanta mentioned by Bhāskar II.

Describing French Conservatives of the 1870s, the writer opined that " their mistake was, not in appealing to the country, but in appealing to it in behalf of a Monarchy which had yet to be defined, instead of a Republic which existed ; for in the latter case they would have had the whole of that silent majority with them.

" He opined that there were very few radio writers who would be remembered for their literary contributions.

Firth opined that Lilburne had gained a great reputation for courage and seems to have been a good officer, but his military career was unlucky.

Despite his accomplishments and accolades, some college recruiting analysts opined that he was too small and too slow to succeed in major college football when he signed to play for the University of Florida.

The coup-de-grace is variously opined to be Stealth technology especially as embodied in the cruise missile, which would have required an unattainable number of installations to secure the Soviet border ; the Gulf War, which proved stealth and easily overcame Soviet-doctrine Iraqi forces ; or Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a clear attempt to obsolesce the Soviet nuclear arsenal, creating an immense expense for the Soviets to maintain parity.

J. W. Lambert, reviewing the album for The Sunday Times opined that Le Mesurier gave " precisely the air of confident incredulity which the learned gentleman exhibited in court ".

While the majority of news reports echoed these official declarations, there were others which opined that Western critics should " suspend judgment for a time ," and despite its generally critical stance on South Africa's policies, Time magazine wrote that Bophuthatswana had " considerable economic potential " with an expected $ 30 million a year coming from mining revenues.

In 1977, Gerald P. O ' Driscoll opined that Ricardo, in expanding his treatment of this subject for an Encyclopædia Britannica article, changed so many features of it as to result in a Ricardian Nonequivalence Theorem.

According to a report conducted by the ICTY entitled Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia opined that, " Insofar as the attack actually was aimed at disrupting the communications network, it was legally acceptable " and that, " NATO ’ s targeting of the RTS building for propaganda purposes was an incidental ( albeit complementary ) aim of its primary goal of disabling the Serbian military command and control system and to destroy the nerve system and apparatus that keeps Milosević in power.

Jordan Hoffman of Film. com thought that Farrell was " likeable " and both Ebert and the New York Times opined that though they believed Farrell was the better actor, that Schwarzenegger was " more of a movie presence and better suited for the role.

He opined that public opinion had the power to ensure that rulers would rule for the greatest happiness of the greater number.

The party advocated independence for Indonesia, and opposed imperialism and capitalism because it opined that both systems worsened the life of Indonesian people.

295 ), the Canada Supreme Court opined that the 1906 Lord's Day Act that required most places to be closed on Sunday did not have a legitimate secular purpose, and was an unconstitutional attempt to establish a religious-based closing law in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

As mayor, Agnos and his family became the first to ride in the Lesbian Gay Freedom Day Parade, appointed minorities, lesbians and gays to high city posts, and ended the city ’ s opposition to a court-ordered consent decree to hire and promote minorities and women in the fire department which a federal judge opined was “ out of control ” due to racism when Agnos took office.

SFX magazine felt Shaun Dingwall to be the " lynchpin " of the episode " Father's Day " and opined that " he gives one of the series ' best performances.

Before World War II, Sadashiv Golwalkar, head of the RSS from 1940 – 73 opined

" Of Spamalot, Anderson opined that " Python was formed in reaction to exactly the kind of lazy comedy represented by Spamalot – what Michael Palin once described as the ' easy, catch-phrase reaction ' the members had all been forced to pander to in their previous writing jobs ".

" In 2006, he reaffirmed his previous statements and further opined, " When I was growing up, if I liked band, I listened to it — and I went to the shows.

And in an introduction to Tiptree's story in his Again, Dangerous Visions anthology, Harlan Ellison opined that " Wilhelm is the woman to beat this year, but Tiptree is the man.

These occasions were in the face of a general indifference to the music ; writing in the centenary year, the musicologist Deryck Cooke opined that at that time, " to declare oneself a confirmed Delian is hardly less self-defamatory than to admit to being an addict of cocaine and marihuana ".

The Supreme Court of India opined that it was " unpardonable " on the part of the Government of Tamil Nadu for not providing security to Rajkumar despite having information a year ago that he faced threat of being kidnapped by Veerappan.

Despite the release of her album so late in the year, Larson was acclaimed Female Vocalist of 1978 by Rolling Stone who opined no one else could sound as if she were having so much fun on an album and Nicolette reached No. 15 on Billboard's album chart aided by the hit single " Lotta Love " a Neil Young composition.

Responding to a 1986 report on 3 year capital expenditures projected at almost $ 35 billion, VP of finance F. Alan Smith ( no relation ) opined that the sum could be spent on purchasing both Toyota and Nissan resulting in a bump in market share overnight and openly questioned whether the proposed capital expenditures would pay the same dividends ; they did not.

Holmes felt that the founders ' expansion of free speech was " an experiment, as all life is an experiment " and he opined that a twenty year sentence against the defendants was an unconstitutional punishment for their beliefs.

In a July 2, 2011 editorial the New York Times opined, " The Defense of Marriage Act was enacted in 1996 as an election-year wedge issue, signed by President Bill Clinton in one of his worst policy moments.

Liang Shuming opined that Chiang Kai-shek's " greatest contribution was to make the CCP successful.

Biographer Stephen Ambrose opined that this was the best speech of Eisenhower's presidency.

) The theologically conservative future president of Yale, Timothy Dwight, opined that " the style was crude and vulgar, and the sentiments were coarser than the style.

He later opined that the governor-general's role was more than a representative of the sovereign, explaining: " under section 2 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the Queen's representative and exercises certain royal prerogative powers and functions ; under section 61 of the Constitution the Governor-General is the holder of a quite separate and independent office created, not by the Crown, but by the Constitution, and empowered to exercise, in his own right as Governor-General and not as a representative or delegate of the Queen, all the powers and functions of Australia's head of state.

The attorney Roy Cohn, an associate of Hoover during the 1950s investigations of Communists and known to be a closeted homosexual, opined that Hoover was too frightened of his own sexuality to have anything approaching a normal sexual or romantic relationship.

However, Salon's David Futrelle opined that such content was very much a part of Mads past:

" Activist Bill Wilson opined that the expanded presidency was " the greatest threat ever to individual freedom and democratic rule.

Many critics opined at that time that Gretzky was " too small, too wiry, and too slow to be a force in the NHL ".

The Akron Journal and Republican, no friend to Bryan, opined that " never probably has a national convention been swayed or influenced by a single speech as was the national Democratic convention ".

Additionally, Murray Rothbard, the founder of anarcho-capitalism, has opined that Thoreau was one of the " great intellectual heroes " of his movement.

On the question of race relations, some have opined that the Union was so pre-occupied with uniting the white races ( the British and the Boers ) into a single race that it enabled the gulf between whites and blacks to enlarge.

Nikitenko, opined that, " The main failing of the reign of Nicholas Pavlovich was that it was all a mistake.

Mason P dissented and opined that there was no principled reason to award punitive damages in respect of common law torts but not analogous equitable wrongs.

Accompanying this, Philip opined that Nastrond was also " half identified " with the creature Grendel, the antagonist in the Old English poem Beowulf. Philip 1981. p. 36.

" He opined that it was offensive to the beliefs of Christians, Jews and atheists alike :" he play will ... be popular with everybody with the exception of three classes: It will probably prove offensive to Christians because they are likely to think of it as irreverent ; to the Hebrew it will seem mystical and exaggerated ; the non-church-goer will find it absurd and undramatic.

Robin Lane Fox opined that Theopompus was " A man who wrote slander, not history ".