In 1959, Noam Chomsky published a scathing review of B. F. Skinner's book Verbal Behavior.

Hal Hinson of The Washington Post wrote a particularly scathing review, stating that " It's impossible to know what Francis Coppola's Life Without Zoe is.

In 2005, author Anne Rice became involved in a flamewar of sorts on the review boards of online retailer Amazon. com after several reviewers posted scathing comments about her latest novel.

Time magazine writer Richard Corliss was less scathing, but agreed that it was forgettable, saying that people would " forget all about movie by the time they leave the multiplex ," even joking at the end of his review that he had forgotten the film's name.

Ebbinghaus explained his scathing review by saying that he could not believe that Dilthey was advocating the status quo of structuralists like Wilhelm Wundt and Titchener and attempting to stifle psychology ’ s progress.

Critic and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the newspaper Le Charivari in which, making wordplay with the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise ( Impression, soleil levant ), he gave the artists the name by which they became known.

Furthermore, he had read a scathing Cream review in Rolling Stone, a publication he had much admired, in which the reviewer, Jon Landau, called him a " master of the blues cliché.

Stewart Copeland gave a scathing review of the show on his own website, which the press interpreted as a feud occurring two gigs into the tour.

He was a member of the ' Ad Hoc Origins Committee ' that supported Philip E. Johnson's book Darwin on Trial against palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould's high profile scathing review in Scientific American in 1992.

In contrast, Elvis Mitchell of Spin magazine gave Brisco a scathing review, calling the show's premise a " tedious ... rickety gimmick ".

The Fonthill sale was the subject of William Hazlitt's scathing review of Beckford's taste for " idle rarities and curiosities or mechanical skill ", for fine bindings, bijouterie and highly-finished paintings, " the quintessence and rectified spirit of still-life ", republished in Hazlitt's Sketches of the Picture Galleries of England ( 1824 ), and richly demonstrating his own prejudices.

Rita Kempley of The Washington Post gave the film a scathing review, calling it " Rebel Without a Cause without a cause.

A scathing review of this book by neuro-scientist Roy Sugarman found that it allied itself with the anti-psychiatry movement in its critiques of biological psychiatry.

The judge was particularly scathing in his review of the RCMP probe of Sorbara.

In his review of Prévost's book, Walter Horn notes that while Prévost offers often scathing opinions of many people, Rowe is singled out for multiple barbs, and " one can hardly fail to wonder whether there's something of a personal nature lurking behind the barrage of what are superficially theoretical complaints.

The most scathing review came from The Argus James Smith, who said the 9 by 5s were " destitute of all sense of the beautiful " and " whatever influence it was likely to exercise could scarcely be otherwise than misleading and pernicious.

Another review terms it " a scathing indictment of the medical community.

van Bueren, professor emeritus of astronomy at the University of Utrecht, concluded his scathing review of Fomenko's work on the application of mathematics and astronomy to historical data as follows:

The New York Times review of The Song of Hiawatha was scathing.

The Broadway reviews were lackluster, but a scathing review by The New York Times led the show to close after just five performances.

This honesty actually led to a lawsuit against Let's Go in 1990 as a result of a scathing review of an Israeli hostel, but the travel guide was victorious in court, upheld by the judges as " the modern equivalents of Thomas Paine or John Peter Zenger.

The First Preface is a rather scathing review of the book.

The film received a scathing review from Singer but was well received by others, including reviewers at Time, Variety and Newsweek.

Lillian eventually retaliated, four years later, with her famously scathing review of the McCartneys ' first American TV special.

She maintained that a great deal of the scholarship of white feminists served to augment the oppression of black women, a conviction that led to angry confrontation, most notably in a scathing open letter addressed to radical lesbian feminist Mary Daly, to which Lorde stated she received no reply.

However, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times wrote: “ The most distracting nonsense is the pop-up of familiar faces in so-called cameo roles, jarring the illusion .” Shana Alexander in Life Magazine stated: “ The pace was so stupefying that I felt not uplifted – but sandbagged !” And John Simon – later notorious as the frequently scathing theater and film critic of New York Magazine – wrote in the National Review: " God is unlucky in The Greatest Story Ever Told.

It also stated its preference of setting a carbon price through tax, rather than through a cap-and-trade system as a means of cutting emissions, and was generally scathing of government subsidies.

The magazine has since excised the article from subsequent editions of the Illustrated History book ; a transcription of it can be found at the link below ( despite his scathing view of Young's career, Marsh gave the album the highest possible rating ).

The song " Time for Truth " from The Jam's debut album, In the City, a scathing critique of the state of the British nation, directly addresses Callaghan: " I think it's time for truth, and the truth is you lost, Uncle Jimmy.

Lyrically, the album contains social commentary so harsh that CCM described it as " perhaps the most scathing ever put out by a Christian label.

Townshend's 1993 concept album Psychoderelict offers a scathing commentary on journalists in the character of Ruth Streeting, who attempts to scandalise the main character, Ray High.

This album garnered airplay for the single " Bad Time to Be Poor ," a scathing indictment of life in Ontario during the government of Mike Harris.

While the album had a scathing attack on the apartheid regime in the song ' Ons Stem ' ( meaning our voice-as a response to the racist apartheid national anthem ' die stem ' - the voice ) and the innovative Hard Time on Stage, the follow-up to Murder on Stage from Our World, it was less experimental.

During a live performance of the song in 1978, recorded on his infamous Take No Prisoners album, Reed made some scathing remarks about Dallesandro: " Little Joe was an idiot, I don't know if any of you know that .. You talk with him for two minutes, you hear he has an IQ of 12 ... He's the only guy I know who went to Italy to be a movie star, and it is not happening ... I mean, everybody is ready to go to bed with him, make him a star ... He can barely tie his shoes and dress ... I say, ' Joe you're getting older ,' he says, ' I know, I'll make a Warhol film ,' but you can't do that anymore, man!

Matoub's family played them a scathing parody of the Algerian national anthem, which came from Matoub's final album Lettre ouverte aux ... (" Open letter to ..."), released after his death ( Gold-Disc ).

The album was predominantly favorably reviewed, but his improvisations were also criticized, especially in a scathing review in the Danish organ magazine ORGLET which argued for the use of traditional fugal and choral forms instead of the free improvisation.

Frustrated at the apparent lack of interest in East Coast artists from record companies, Tim recorded " Fuck Compton ", a scathing diss track from his debut album Penicillin on Wax.

Though it met with a scathing review in Melody Maker, reviews in the underground press were universally positive, and sales were just enough to convince Liberty to give the green light to a second album.

The album was generally not well received upon release and some of the reviews were scathing and merciless.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

ESPN the Magazine published a full-page opinion piece about the Marlins and was extremely scathing in its criticism of David Samson.

He was scathing about immorality, deceit and the exacting of tithes and urged his listeners to lead lives without sin, avoiding the Ranter's antinomian view that a believer becomes automatically sinless.

The Judiciary Committee and the US Senate Finance Committee issued a scathing report in 2007, which found that Aguirre had been illegally fired in reprisal for his pursuit of Mack and in 2009, the SEC was forced to re-open its case against Pequot.

Because his task was to construct the wilful choices of his Punch editors, who probably took their cue from The Times and would have felt the suggestions of political tensions from Parliament as well, Tenniel ’ s work, as was its design, could be scathing in effect.

Frankenheimer's 1996 film The Island of Doctor Moreau, which he took over a few weeks into production from Richard Stanley, was the cause of countless stories of production woes and personality clashes and received scathing reviews.

Scottish author Hugh Blair's 1763 A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian upheld the work's authenticity against Johnson's scathing criticism and from 1765 was included in every edition of Ossian to lend the work credibility.

Caesar Baronius, writing in the 16th century, and basing himself on Luitprand, was particularly scathing, describing Sergius as:

Agnew was known for his scathing criticisms of political opponents, especially journalists and anti-war activists.

While the film received scathing reviews from critics, it was a modest box office success, garnering over $ 130 million worldwide.

One of Hamilton's letters, a scathing criticism of Adams that was fifty-four pages long, became public when it came into the hands of a Republican.

May was also scathing of Prenter, who was Mercury's manager from the early 1980s to 1984, for being dismissive of the importance of radio stations, such as the US networks, and their vital connection between the artist and the community, and for denying them access to Mercury.

" A second book, Swiss Schools and Ours ( 1962 ) was a scathing comparison of the educational systems of Switzerland and America.

One Bermudian salt raker, Mary Prince, however, was to leave a scathing record of Bermuda's activities there in The History of Mary Prince, a book which helped to propel the abolitionist cause to the 1834 emancipation of slaves throughout the Empire.

But Sir Charles Hallé was scathing, writing " He thought less of his paintings than his violin playing, which, to say the least of it, was vile ".

For Beaglehole, Cook was a heroic figure who could do practically no wrong, and he is scathing about those contemporaries of Cook who ever ventured to criticise his hero, such as Alexander Dalrymple, the geographer, and Johann Reinhold Forster, who accompanied Cook on the second voyage.

Akhmatova's stature among Soviet poets was slowly conceded by party officials, her name no longer cited in only scathing contexts and she was readmitted to Union of Writers in 1951, being fully recognised again following Stalin's death in 1953.