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Sentences starting with criticism

Criticism which condemns the common-school system as a nurse of superficiality, mediocrity, and conceit does not need serious attention, any more than does the criticism that the universal opportunity of individual welfare offered by a republic fails to make a perfect government. [4]
Criticism is not necessarily uncharitableness, but a wholesome exercise of our powers of analysis and discrimination. [4]
Criticism by comparison is the refuge of incapables, and especially is this true in literature. [4]

Sentences ending with criticism

He had not yet come to a desire to share his secret with any confidant, but preferred to be much alone and muse on it, creating a world which was without evil, without doubt, undisturbed by criticism. [4]
Astruc was sixty-nine years old when he published his "Conjectures," the first attempt, we are told, to decide the authorship of the Pentateuch showing anything like a discerning criticism. [3]
More than a year had elapsed since the interview with Lord Clarendon, which had been the subject of criticism. [6]
No, for that was the common custom on both sides, and not open to criticism. [5]
It strikes me very oddly that good and wise men at Cambridge and Boston should think of raising me into an object of criticism. [6]
It earned sorrow to the breast of every apostle of learning there, for none could deny that this was a formidable criticism. [5]
I am waiting to see your Study set a fashion in criticism. [5]
At the same time, if he could get ten dollars for the book he would take it, and his morals would not fall under criticism. [5]
I better seal this, now--else there'll be more criticism. [5]
As a drama this ancient historical work of art was defective, I thought, but as a wild and barbarous spectacle the representation was beyond criticism. [5]

Short sentences using criticism

What a criticism upon it! [10]
Lamb, Charles, Carlyle's criticism, 196. [6]

Sentences containing criticism two or more times

When the book first came out there was some criticism from Canada itself, but that criticism has long since died away, and it never was determined. [11]
Had the occasion been less serious, Austen could have smiled at Mr. Flint's ruse--so characteristic of the tactics of the president of the Northeastern--of putting him into a position where criticism of the Northeastern and its practices would be criticism of his own father. [9]

More example sentences with the word criticism in them

If a man writes a letter or makes report of an occurrence for immediate publication, subject to universal criticism, there is some restraint on him. [4]
No candid criticism would offend him. [7]
Of course it would be a dull world if we could not criticise our friends, but the most unprofitable and unsatisfactory criticism is that by comparison. [4]
Whatever may be worked out by a criticism of the language of those resolutions, the people have never understood them as being any more than an indorsement of the compromises of 1850, and a release of our senators from voting for the Wilmot Proviso. [7]
We used to wince and cringe under English criticism, and try to strike back in a blind fury. [4]
Their Reverend Samuel Willard wrote us a not over-wise report of a case of hysteria; and our Jean Astruc gave them (if we may trust Dr. Smith's Dictionary of the Bible) the first discerning criticism on the authorship of the Pentateuch. [3]
They were men whose opinions were their own property and not subject to revision and amendment, suggestion or criticism, by anybody, even their friends. [5]
The government at Whitehall still consulted him, still relied upon his knowledge and his natural tact; but secret as his conferences were with the authorities, they were not so secret that criticism was not viciously at work. [11]
And then I went to see him afterwards, in the parish house--you remember?--after we had been reading modern criticism together, and he told me that the faith which had come down from the fathers was like an egg? [9]
Of criticism, however, we were very spare, as a slight word would put him out of conceit of a whole work. [4]
The criticism that we received for our best was evidently founded on such indifference or toleration that it was galling. [4]
The criticism was very gently worded, and the dispatch closed with a somewhat guarded paragraph repeating the government's approbation. [6]
He was listening to the general's report--which consisted chiefly of a criticism of the position at Tsarevo-Zaymishche--as he had listened to Denisov, and seven years previously had listened to the discussion at the Austerlitz council of war. [2]
Finally, I have to meet a more serious charge, that Mr. Hodder remains in the Church because of "the dread of parting with the old, strong anchorage, the fear of anathema and criticism, the thought of sorrowing and disapproving friends. [9]
At the same time I felt that Hungerford was storing up some acute criticism of me, and that he might let me hear it any moment. [11]
From her (Austen thought) seemed to emanate a silent but mirthful criticism, although she continued to gaze persistently down the valley, apparently unaware of their voices. [9]
The fact that this tacit criticism did not seem unkindly did not greatly alleviate the impatience that he felt from time to time. [9]
To work by this rule in literary criticism is to substitute something definite for the individual tastes, moods, and local bias of the critic. [4]
Instinctively he picked them up one by one, and most of them were affectionately marked by marginal notes of criticism, approval, or reference; and all showing the eager, ardent mind of one who loved books. [11]
A remark of the Tribune's about refusal of Canadian copyright, not complimentary, but not necessarily malicious--and of course adverse criticism which is not malicious is a thing which none but fools irritate themselves about. [5]
Exactly one-half of the second page is occupied with an opera criticism, fifty-three lines (three of them being headlines), and "Death Notices," ten lines. [5]
Himself one of the most renowned, acute and learned students and interpreters of the Bible, he was perfectly familiar with the critical works the last five years have brought to light in the domain of Old Testament criticism. [10]
For some time the House had been aware that he had more than a gift for criticism of the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs. [11]
It was also the first time that her rasp of criticism had ever been applied to him, and with such asperity too. [11]
They sit on the fence of criticism, and cannot for the life of them see what the vulgar crowd make such a toil and sweat about. [4]
His preface shows that the reception of his first book had made him timid and sensitive about the fate of the second, and explains and excuses what might be found fault with, to disarm the criticism he had some reason to fear. [6]
Mr. Grout suggested that if I have anything to say against Mr. Putzel, or any criticism of his career or his character, I am the last person to come out on account of that maxim and tell the truth. [5]
In the days that followed I became aware that my father's death had removed a restrictive element, that I was free now to take without criticism or opposition whatever course in life I might desire. [9]
We have learned that English criticism is dictated by love for us, by a warm interest in our intellectual development, just as English anxiety about our revenue laws is based upon a yearning that our down-trodden millions shall enjoy the benefits of free-trade. [4]
We have learned that criticism is good for us, and we are grateful for it from any source. [4]
No stranger could take them up without encountering hostile criticism from one party or the other. [6]
The former name suggests nothing, invited no remark, no criticism, no inquiry, no hostility; the new name invited them all. [5]
In their far-off splendor they rose upon our imaginations dim and huge, shadowy and awful, and it was a fearful thing to hear them spoken of as if they were mere men, and their acts open to comment and criticism. [5]
The idea of sitting down to a job of literary criticism is simply ludicrous. [5]
And yet we should rather call it a versified criticism than a poem in the full sense of that word. [6]
Her reply, after she had learnt something of the character of her future critic, and while awaiting his criticism, must not be omitted. [14]
He had little self-confidence, and was easily put out by a breath of adverse criticism. [4]
Suffice it to say that the inspection was not without a certain criticism, which must be passed over. [9]
She did not resent this,--she was a woman; but it roused in her a spirit of criticism, and she threw up a barrier of fine reserve, which puzzled Mr. Vandewaters. [11]
Of course, the reference to his wife's criticism in this is tenderly playful, as always--of a pattern with the severity which he pretends for her in the next. [5]
When he cannot praise, he delivers himself of a silence so marked that a suspicious person could mistake it for suppressed criticism. [5]
I was always pleased with her discriminating criticism. [6]
He remembered Mr. Parr's criticism of Alison. [9]
Adverse criticism of P. & P. from an enraged idiot in the London Atheneum; 2. [5]
These stories and others which appeared in 'The National Observer', in 'Macmillan's', in 'The English Illustrated Magazine' and others made many friends; so that when the book at length came out it was received with generous praise, though not without some criticism. [11]
He had only one criticism of institutional work, that in his observation it did not bring the people whom it reached into the Church in any great numbers. [9]
As a result of these double performances, there was a storm blowing all the time, an ever-rising storm, too--a storm of frantic criticism of the twins, and rage over their extravagant, incomprehensible conduct. [5]
If the realm of human knowledge were confined to abstract reasoning, then having subjected to criticism the explanation of "power" that juridical science gives us, humanity would conclude that power is merely a word and has no real existence. [2]
In the course of his talk he rambled into a criticism upon New England degrees of merit in ship building. [5]
Comparisons between men of genius for the sake of aggrandizing the one at the expense of the other are the staple of the meaner kinds of criticism. [6]
I never heard of any instance in which the commonsense generally found in national criticism was so overthrown by passion. [5]
Jest, compliment, criticism --none of these things disturbed him, as a rule. [5]
No, we have no anticipations of anything unusual in this age of criticism. [5]
It is merely necessary to select some larger or smaller unit as the subject of observation--as criticism has every right to do, seeing that whatever unit history observes must always be arbitrarily selected. [2]
As was perhaps natural, there was some criticism, but very little, in French Canada itself, upon the stories in this volume. [11]
I have laid myself open to criticism by more than one piece of negligence, which has been passed over without invidious comment by the readers of my papers. [6]
I am afraid my very first statement may be open to criticism. [6]
Why, I've heard more criticism in the last half-hour from these spectators than in a year before. [4]
A reply to Monsieur Jules Soury's criticism of "An Egyptian Princess" in the Revue des deux Mondes, Vol. [10]
Yet everywhere were men known in the sporting, gaming, or political world, in sea life or land life, most of whom had a character untouched by criticism. [11]
And that leads me to say, I cannot help thinking that the kind of criticism to which this Young Girl has been subjected from some person or other, who is willing to be smart at her expense, is hurtful and not wholesome. [6]
Thus there was matter for criticism in his use of language. [6]
He had never married, and he was unprepared to make any statement on such a theme; but now, having made it somehow, he would stand by it, in spite of any and all criticism. [11]
He visited the Loan Exhibition, and wrote a careful criticism on the pictures and sent it to a well-known journal. [4]
Nothing in modern literature is more amazing than the bulk of English criticism in the last three-quarters of a century, so far as it concerned individual writers, both in poetry and prose. [4]
As a mere literary criticism on Smith's writings, it would appear that he had a habit of transferring to his own career notable incidents and adventures of which he had read, and this is somewhat damaging to an estimate of his originality. [4]
I will not listen to criticism of my life, to strictures on my conduct from you or any other man. [9]
It disarmed criticism, it mollified spite, to see him so enjoy his imitation languors, and arts, and airs, and his studied daintinesses of gesture and misbegotten refinements. [5]
True criticism, then, is not a matter of caprice or of individual liking or disliking, nor of conformity to a prevailing and generally temporary popular judgment. [4]
Yes; we must insist that, under the circumstances, the American people have borne this outburst of English criticism in an admirable spirit. [4]
There was nothing in them which could be challenged, could be construed into active criticism of men or things; and yet much he said was horrifying. [11]
There was something in the aristocratic reserve of his nature and the cool, penetrating sharpness of his criticism, which is usually found only in men of more mature years. [10]
It is asserted in substance that Mr. Vallandigham was, by a military commander, seized and tried "for no other reason than words addressed to a public meeting in criticism of the course of the administration, and in condemnation of the military orders of the general. [7]
It is his image, in marble, standing on duty at the pilot wheel; and worthy to stand and confront criticism, for it represents a man who in life would have stayed there till he burned to a cinder, if duty required it. [5]
But he wondered if she knew the extent of his criticism of her father. [9]
Philip argued that if it was his duty, as a captain in the English navy, to fight against the revolutionaries from without, he would be beyond criticism if, as the Duc de Bercy, he also fought against them from within. [11]
Give me a hint when it's to be out, and I'll start the sheep to jumping in the right places"--meaning that he would have an advance review ready for publication in the Atlantic, which was a leader of criticism in America. [5]
One good thing he immediately did: he threw open King's House to the wounded, and set the surgeons to work, thereby checking bitter criticism and blocking the movement rising against him. [11]
For himself, since he had married her, he had never thought of another woman for an instant, except either to admire or to criticize her; and his criticism was, as Jasmine had said, "infantile. [11]
Hermon replied that he had heard several make this criticism, but the priests of the goddess refused to take it into account. [10]
Evelyn will not have a word of criticism of it. [4]
Mrs. Ferguson had haunted the house, regardless of criticism, and actually quivering with sympathy. [9]
Greatness, near at hand, is startlingly like inconsistency; it seems at moments to vacillate, to turn back upon and deny itself, and thus lays itself open to seemingly plausible criticism by politicians and time servers and all who cry out for precedent. [9]
Philippe de St. Gre is not a man to listen to criticism. [9]
Some of the good seed fell among the thorns of criticism. [6]
I was so glad there was not a single sting and so many good praiseful words in the Atlantic's criticism of Deukalion. [5]
In order to give the thing vogue from the start, and place it out of the reach of criticism, I chose my nines by rank, not capacity. [5]
Oyster, in the form of suppers given to gentlemen connected with criticism. [6]
As to the first, it may be helpful to order, method, discipline, and it may be an indulgence of spleen, whims, and unwholesome criticism and conceit. [4]
Before it was finished he wrote: "I have lost confidence in the favorable disposition of my countrymen, and look forward to cold scrutiny and stern criticism, and this is a line of writing in which I have not hitherto ascertained my own powers. [4]
I have just finished a Memoir, which will appear soon after this page is written, and will have been the subject of criticism long before it is in the reader's hands. [6]
If we can find no evidence of its truth that stands the test of fair criticism, we may at least believe that it had some slight basis on which to rest. [4]
Incidents were related evidently confirming the opinion that everything was going from bad to worse, but whether telling a story or giving an opinion the speaker always stopped, or was stopped, at the point beyond which his criticism might touch the sovereign himself. [2]
Since it was essentially experimental, and therefore not lacking in mistakes, there was ample opportunity for a criticism that seemed at times extremely plausible. [9]
If Mr. Froude's essay is anything but an exhibition of the scholarly weapons of criticism, it is the expression of a profound disbelief in the intellectual education of the masses of the people. [4]
There were moments during her brief visit when her face was very sad, but no doubt her predominant feeling escaped her in regard to the criticism quoted from somebody on Jerry Hollowell's methods and motives. [4]
But it is doubtful if any artist in letters, or in form or color, ever did anything well without having in mind some special person, whose approval was desired or whose criticism was feared. [4]
Perhaps they were disarmed by the fact that the acrid criticism in the London Quarterly Review was accompanied by a cordial appreciation of the novels that seemed to the reviewer characteristically American. [4]
Each contained a description of character, with a criticism of the work accomplished, partly with reference to the pupil's capacity, partly to the demands of the school. [10]
It created notice, criticism, but he was superior to that. [11]

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