In her review for the New York Times, Janet Maslin praised, " Mr. Campbell's manly, mock-heroic posturing is perfectly in keeping with the director's droll outlook ".

Kael wrote in her review of Blow Out, " At forty, Brian De Palma has more than twenty years of moviemaking behind him, and he has been growing better and better.

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.

Does not bear inspection .” As this review states, the virginal maiden character is above inspection because her personality is flawless.

The roots of her realist philosophy can be found in her review of John Ruskin's Modern Painters in Westminster Review in 1856.

Indeed, the term " raga rock " was coined by The Byrds ' publicist in the press releases for the single and was first used in print by journalist Sally Kempton in her review of " Eight Miles High " for The Village Voice.

" In the Esquire review, Tom Carson called her performance " terrific.

In May 1625 she was in good spirits and insisted on accompanying her husband on the royal yacht to review the fleet.

Kevin N. Laforest of the Montreal Film Journal commented in his September 2002 review that Cruz " has been getting some really bad reviews for her recent American work, but I personally think that she's a more than decent actress, especially here, where she's charming, moving and always believable.

Kevin Lally of the Film Journal International commented in his review for the film that " in an ironic casting twist, the Spanish actress Penelope Cruz [...] is much more appealing as Josepha in her previous roles.

Stephanie Zacharek of Salon. com noted in her review for the film that Cruz " doesn't coast on her beauty in Broken Embraces, and she has the kind of role that can be difficult to flesh out.

Although Gauss thought well of Germain, his replies to her letters were often delayed, and he generally did not review her work.

" This put the Academy in an awkward position, as they felt the paper to be “ inadequate and trivial ,” but they did not want to “ treat her as a professional colleague, as they would any man, by simply rejecting the work .” So Augustin-Louis Cauchy, who had been appointed to review her work, recommended she publish it, and she followed his advice.

Janet Maslin praised Bridges ' performance in her review for The New York Times: " Mr. Bridges finds a role so right for him that he seems never to have been anywhere else.

Under Mary, he had been spared, and often visited Elizabeth, ostensibly to review her accounts and expenditure.

Rita Kempley's review in The Washington Post praised Meg Ryan as the " summer's Melanie Griffith – a honey-haired blonde who finally finds a showcase for her sheer exuberance.

In her New York Times review Janet Maslin wrote, Natalie Portman got film's " archest dialogue ", and called her " a budding knockout, and scene-stealingly good even in an overly showy role.

" In her review for The New York Times, Caryn James claimed that the film had " at least four endings ," and " by the time the last ending of this two-and-a-quarter-hour film comes along, the effect is like getting off a demon roller coaster that has kept racing several laps after you were ready to get off.

" In her review for The Washington Post, Rita Kempley wrote that the film " asks us to believe that the drowned return to life, that the comatose come to the rescue, that driven women become doting wives, that Neptune cares about landlubbers.

She stared at him, her eyes wide as she thought about what he had said ; ;

He treats her like she was dirt.

He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

`` I saw your fire '', she said, speaking slowly, making an effort to control her anger.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

He side-stepped her blow and she fell, stumbling against the gelding.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

If she sensed any unusual preoccupation on the part of her mother, she did not comment upon it.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

Then she turned the station wagon around and headed it back down the hill, with the village as her ostensible destination.

As she drove, she thought about her plan.

That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.

Here, she dropped the keys on a small table beside the door and went upstairs to her bedroom.

She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.

`` He works for my father '', the girl said, and then seemed to change her mind.

`` She won't change her mind '', Brannon said.

`` I've got her as neat as I can '', Donovan said, as he dropped the straps of the Seton harness over Greg's shoulders.

She was still hugging the stained coat around her, so I said, `` Relax, let me take your things.

I showed her the shower and tub, and she said, smiling, `` If you really don't mind, I think I'll get clean in the shower, then soak for a few minutes in your tub.

She said without turning her head, `` After that rain beating in atop the dust, there isn't a thing that won't be streaked ''.

As if divining my thoughts, the girl Songau smiled warmly and said in the casual tone an American woman might use in describing her rose garden:

She said, her voice rising.

`` Well, that's the only way to be '', Mrs. Forsythe said, and gave her brassy laugh.

she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.

She said, with the solicitude of a middle-aged woman for her only child.

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

`` That's all right '', she said, tossing her head back to get the hair out of her eyes.

She daubed at her swimming eyes with a lacy handkerchief and said with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!

`` We're going to Philadelphia '', Kitty said, pulling her skirt down around her legs all the more.

Miriam sniffed at this, and complained that Wright had said unkind things about her to reporters.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.