While he recognized the advantages of modern societies he also criticized them for their cold and impersonal nature that caused alienation while praising the intimacy of traditional communities.

" While praising the novel generally, he faulted Niven for relying on inconsistencies regarding evolution in his extrapolations to support his fictional premises.

" While praising the replay value afforded by the extra scenarios, the critic derided the random battles of Radical Dreamers, writing that " RPG-style random combat doesn't translate well to text-only medium.

While praising the film's first two hours as " compelling ", the Toronto Star remarked, " But when Cameron takes the adventure to the next step, deep into the heart of fantasy, it all becomes one great big deja boo.

While PC Zone gave the game 91 % and a " Classic " award, praising its inventive level design and engaging plot, most other publications did not have such a glowing view towards it.

" While praising Clarke's work as " Stapledonian its historic concepts and also for the quality of its prose and thinking ," they concluded that Childhood's End was " an awkward and imperfect book.

While praising the application of rules to classical Latin, most intensely in the Golden Age, he says " In gaining accuracy, however, classical Latin suffered a grievous loss.

While finding the series to be " surprisingly sad " and praising the well-defined characters, he felt the series was " neither particularly well drawn nor incredibly witty ".

" While praising Branagh's direction and performances by the cast, Berardinelli attributed most of his discontent to the film's screenplay, concluding, " This is Branagh's worst effort to date and shows, if nothing else, that no matter how talented the director and his cast, he still needs a decent screenplay.

While praising its " meticulous attention to authenticity ", critics panned Jesus for being " painfully monotonous " and " little more than an illustrated gospel, with nothing in the way of historical and social context.

While noting that Portnoy " rather sticks to ' plain ' drumming ," he commended the drummer's performance, praising his use of ethnic percussion to give the album " an original twist ".

While studying in Berlin and Jena in 1922, Codreanu took a critical attitude towards the Weimar Republic, and began praising the March on Rome and Italian fascism as major achievements ; he decided to cut his stay short, after he learned of the large student protests in December, prompted by the intention of the government to grant the complete emancipation of Jews ( see History of the Jews in Romania ).

While praising the film's set design, he criticized its " meandering storyline and lifeless protagonists ," saying that " Lost in Space features a few action sequences that generate adrenaline jolts, but this is not an edge-of-the-seat motion picture.

While praising the school for its high academic achievement, Lawrence-Lightfoot noted that ideas like ethics and character were not emphasized as a part of the day to day working of the school.

While praising Joad for a " frank and honest account of Joad's spiritual and intellectual odyssey ," Loomer was clearly less than enthralled with Joad's lack familiarity with " the best of modern religious thought ," undoubtedly a negative reference to Joad's dependence upon Edwin Bevan and C. S. Lewis.

While generally praising US performance it highlighted numerous incidents of friendly fire.

While yet bishop of London, in 1002 he received an anonymous letter in Latin praising his style and eloquence.

While many leftists have happily worked with Arab or Muslim groups in opposition to perceived U. S. or Israeli imperialism, alliances between leftists and Islamists are relatively unusual, and Taheri's sole example of a leftist actually praising Islamist terrorists is from Carlos the Jackal, a terrorist himself.

While at university Adam Marsh wrote to another scholar praising Giffard's scholarly skills.

While the other judges were praising other contestants to win, Ken predicted the unlikely victory of Hady Mirza.

While praising Beuerlein's play, Shanahan wanted a quarterback with more experience and felt Schroeder fit his system better.

While praising the acting and William Wyler's " close-to " direction, he also had high praise for the chariot race: " There has seldom been anything in movies to compare with this picture's chariot race.

While praising Schaeffer's message against legalized abortion, Schaeffer's comments in the film series / book about the Catholic Church drew a critical response.

While living in the Soviet Union she became more enthused with the Soviet government and wrote many books praising it.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

While The Space Merchants indicates, as Kingsley Amis has correctly observed, some of the `` impending consequences of the growth of industrial and commercial power '' and satirizes `` existing habits in the advertising profession '', its warning and analysis penetrate much deeper.

While here, visit Theodore Roosevelt National Park for its spectacular scenery.

While one element is announcing progress, another is delineating its problems.

While ATP appears to be necessary for the occurrence of contraction, its presence and enzymatic hydrolysis of it by the muscle protein myosin are not the only criteria for contraction.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

While each scene has its own character and completeness it must fit into the general sequence to which it belongs.

While the Arrhenius concept is useful for describing many reactions, it is also quite limited in its scope.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While the group only recorded one album together as the Analog Brothers, a few bootlegs of its live concert performances, including freestyles with original lyrics, have occasionally surfaced online.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

While the sun is similarly described as being aflame, it is not composed of rarefied air like the stars but rather of earth like the moon ; its burning comes not from its composition but rather from its rapid motion .< ref > Kirk, G. S., J. E.

While many leading chemists of the time refused to accept Lavoisier's new ideas, demand for Traité élémentaire as a textbook in Edinburgh was sufficient to merit translation into English within about a year of its French publication.

" ( Acts 28: 14-15 ) While Walton agrees that Luke ’ s main concern is apolitical, he believes that “ there is too much politically sensitive material for this view to be tenable when Luke-Acts is read in its first-century settings, both Jewish and Greco-Roman .”

While there are some similarities between the two movements, Theodism derived its origins primarily as a reaction to Wicca.

While this went on MCP renamed itself to MCP CHIP but ran into problems with the German computer magazine CHIP, and had to return to its former name.

While the earliest cuisine of the United States was influenced by indigenous American Indians, the cuisine of the thirteen colonies or the culture of the antebellum American South ; the overall culture of the nation, its gastronomy and the growing culinary arts became ever more influenced by its changing ethnic mix and immigrant patterns from the 18th and 19th centuries unto the present.

While often cited as an Indian legend, the white doe seems to have its roots in English folklore.

While many indigenous Amazonian people say they received the instructions directly from plants and plant spirits, researchers have devised a number of alternative theories to explain its discovery.

While the NFL retained its old name and logo, it nevertheless claims the rights to all AFL products and trademarks, including the name and the eagle logo.

While scratch matches were played by Australian " diggers " in remote locations around the world, the game lost many of its great players to wartime service.