Criticism

Examples

• The van der Luydens were morbidly sensitive to any criticism of their secluded existence. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• There is a stage of criticism in which all works, whether of nature or of art, are referred to design. Plato. The Republic.
• But its equalitarian formul? carried it into a criticism of the very property it had risen to protect. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I make no criticism on this point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• My dear, Mr. Helstone's office secures him from criticism. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His mind employed them without criticism. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They need to be expurgated by an unceasing criticism; yet in bulk the forces I have mentioned, and many others less important, carry with them the creative powers of our times. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Josiah Franklin's judicious criticism led Benjamin to undertake the well- known plan of developing his literary style. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There had been a split in the Cabinet; the minister for Education had resigned owing to adverse criticism. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Criticism and argument were again at their height, while Upton, as Edison's duellist, was kept busy replying to private and public challenges of the fact. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If political science could travel in the direction suggested, its criticism would be relevant, its proposals practical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• You said, Mother, that criticism would help me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• But the old faith of the kings, owners, and rulers of the opening twentieth century had faded under the actinic light of scientific criticism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Thi s attitude of strict criticism is char acteristic of the scientific mind. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The members assumed without criticism the traditional dogma of Christianity that sex in any manifestation outside of marriage is sinful. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Quite late in his life he began a series of outspoken criticisms of the corruption of the clergy and the unwisdom of the church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Your criticisms thereon appear to be just, and I imagine you may have misapprehended my intention in mentioning it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The objective man, at the same time, may find even in the vehement pages of Nietzsche warnings and criticisms which the friends of democracy should not disrega rd. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Many criticisms may be made on Plato's theory of education. Plato. The Republic.
• This circumstance gave rise to exceedingly unfair and unjust criticisms of him when he became a candidate for the Presidency. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The ultimate success of the kiln, however, proved their criticisms to be unwarranted. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Who can tell what just criticisms Murr the Cat may be passing on us beings of wider speculation? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Ralph only made some criticisms and proposed some amendments; but I defended my text. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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