Modern critics often fault Alcott for not being able to financially support his family.

Modern critics are more likely to find fault with the narrow definition of the citizen body, but in the ancient world the complaint if anything went in the opposite direction.

Modern Times ( 1936 ), which depicted factory workers in dismal conditions, was the first of his films that was seen by critics to contain an anti-capitalist message, although Chaplin denied the film being in any way political.

Although some of Chaplin's critics have claimed that credit for his film music should be given to the composers who worked with him, for example Raksin, who worked with Chaplin on Modern Times, has stressed Chaplin's creative position and active participation in the composing process.

Modern critics have cast doubt on the accuracy of Sharp's transcriptions and noted important omissions and embellishments.

Modern texual critics have identified the following text-types among textual witnesses to the New Testament: The Alexandrian text-type is usually considered to generally preserve many early readings.

Modern critics call the Greek playwright Aristophanes one of the best known early satirists: his plays are known for their critical political and societal commentary, particularly for the political satire by which he criticized the powerful Cleon ( as in The Knights ).

Modern liberal Protestant denominations are often accused by Trinitarians within their ranks, and critics outside, of being indifferent to the doctrine, and therefore self-isolated from their respective Trinitarian pasts and heritage.

Furthermore, as some critics have argued, the abandoning of the classical way of doing cinema and so the starting point of the Nouvelle Vague and the Modern Cinema can be found in the post world-war II Italian cinema and in the neorealism experiences.

Modern critics and film historians claimed that Colbert demonstrated versatility throughout her career, and played characters that ranged from vamps to housewives, and that encompassed screwball comedy and drama.

Modern critics have also praised the film.

Modern critics of the Thebaid have been divided over interpretations of the epic's tone.

This was not long after his Nude Descending a Staircase was attracting the attention of critics at the International Exhibition of Modern Art.

Modern critics have mostly panned it, with the most generous reviews complimenting the film's influence on the disaster genre and its " camp value.

Modern critics, beginning with Adolf Jülicher, regard these interpretations as inappropriate and untenable.

Modern reception of Another Green World has been very positive ; several critics and publications often place the album on lists of the top albums of all time.

Modern critics have given Procter's work little attention.

" Modern critics do not find the Loveless part very lively or irresistible, but Vanbrugh was able to count on Verbruggen's shambling male magnetism and " agreeable wildness " to enrich the character.

Modern architectural critics have lamented on the ‘ narrative of loss ’ within the public sphere.

Temple argued against this position in his " On Ancient and Modern Learning " ( where he provided the first English formulation of the commonplace that modern critics see more only because they are dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants ), and Temple's somewhat naive essay prompted a small flurry of responses.

" Modern scholarship however is much more divided about Valentine's actions at the end of the play, with some critics arguing that he does not offer to give Silvia to Proteus at all.

Modern literary critics have revealed that Grimke was lesbian.

The choice of Portland Stone cladding, and bronze framed individual upright windows were denounced by Modern Movement critics, and the Centre's buildings have generally been regarded as dull.

Modern critics would point out that The Author shows great development in Foote's ability in creating characters and sustaining plot.

Perhaps unsurprisingly it failed to chart in the US, however it reached number two on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart.

According to Partridge ( 1972: 12 ), it dates from around 1840 and arose in the East End of London, however John Camden Hotten in his 1859 Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words states that ( English ) rhyming slang originated " about twelve or fifteen years ago " ( i. e. in the 1840s ) with ' chaunters ' and ' patterers ' in the Seven Dials area of London.

Modern historians consider this highly implausible however, noting that malicious rumours such as those concerning Domitia's alleged infidelity were eagerly repeated by post-Domitianic authors, and used to highlight the hypocrisy of a ruler publicly preaching a return to Augustan morals, while privately indulging in excesses and presiding over a corrupt court.

Modern historians believe, however, that the change of religion by Mieszko was one of the points discussed in the Polish-Bohemian agreement concluded soon before his marriage with Dobrawa.

Samarrai, however, also advises to handle this theory with care, as Medieval and Early Modern Muslim scribes often used etymologically " fanciful roots " in order claim the most outlandish things to be of Arabian or Muslim origin.

Modern practice, however, is to assign the traditional names based on the Gregorian calendar month when the full moon falls.

By the end of the Early Modern period however, and the beginnings of the Enlightenment, many European governments brought in laws prohibiting many superstitious beliefs in an attempt to bring an end to the Witch Hunt ; this would invariably affect the release of grimoires.

Modern scholarship has disproved Margaret Murray's theory, however various horned gods and mother goddesses were indeed worshipped in the British Isles during the ancient and early Medieval periods.

Modern scholarship, however, has cast doubts on the actual quality of Jerome's Hebrew knowledge.

Modern tests and contemporary accounts agree therefore that well-made plate armour could protect against longbows, however there are a number of caveats to this point ; not all plate armour was well-made or well looked after, and there were also weak points in the eye and air holes and joints where arrows could penetrate, meaning that even if the armour was proof against nearly all arrows, being shot at by thousands of longbowmen would have been an uncomfortable experience, physically and mentally.

Modern storage, however, is far less costly, greatly reducing the need to minimize image file size.

Among leading language-usage commentators, Garner's Modern American Usage acknowledges that " website " is the standard form, but Bill Walsh, of The Washington Post, argues for using " Web site " in his books and on his website ( however, The Washington Post itself uses " website ").

Modern theorists, however, tend to see this as an unsatisfactory generalisation.

Modern routers, however, do not require these technologies to be able to forward variable-length packets at multigigabit speeds across the network.

Modern historians, however, have been less enthusiastic about him.

Modern physics indicates that the choice of phrasing about lifting stones should relate to acceleration ; however, this does not in itself of course invalidate the fundamental concept of the generalized omnipotence paradox.

Modern authors from the Czech territory who wrote in other languages ( e. g. German ) are however sometimes considered separately, thus Franz Kafka, for example, who wrote in German ( though he was also fluent in Czech ), is often considered part of Austrian or German literature.

Modern advancements in both general surgery and gynaecology, however, have blurred many of the once rigid lines of distinction.

Modern warfare, however, does still see the use of the bayonet for close-quarter fighting.

Faie became Modern English fay " a fairy "; the word is, however, rarely used, although it is well known as part of the name of the legendary sorceress Morgan le Fay of Arthurian legend.

Not all mathematicians agree with this analysis, however, and the status of Hilbert's second problem is not yet decided ( see " Modern viewpoints on the status of the problem ").

Modern scholars, however, have theorized that by assuming the typical symbols of pharaonic power, Hatshepsut was asserting her claim to be the sovereign rather than a " King's Great Wife " or queen consort.

Modern mythologists, however, reverse the supposition, insisting that the cult of Adonis-Tammuz originated the shrine and that it was the Christians who took it over, substituting the worship of their own God.

Modern Spanish, however, no longer uses this diacritic, although it is still current in Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, and French, which gives English the alternative spellings of cedille, from French “ cédille ”, and the Portuguese form cedilha.