Criticizing Sentence Examples

He kept criticizing his own work, as he often did, and was glad when he heard someone coming.

He has been quite vocal about criticizing other artists.

Their chief ground of criticizing the proposed measures was that they would threaten the unity of the Bohemian country.'

He became (1756-1759) the leading spirit of Nicolai's important literary undertakings, the Bibliothek and the Literaturbriefe, and ran some risk (which Frederick's good nature obviated) by somewhat freely criticizing the poems of the king of Prussia.

This was an incident in a famous episode, important rather as a symptom than in itself, namely, the Antinomian controversy, " New England's earliest protest against formulas," in which Vane and Ann Hutchinson took the lead in criticizing the official orthodoxy of the colony.

When a certain parent scoffs at another parent's "need for labels", she is typically criticizing a preference for well known brands over the children's inventory at Target.

In the days, weeks, and months that follow a death, adults should refrain from criticizing or reacting negatively to the child's feelings.

Emotional abuse is the rejecting, ignoring, criticizing, isolating, or terrorizing of children, all of which have the effect of eroding their self-esteem.

Even though plenty of people are criticizing and ridiculing the Snuggie, there is no question that plenty others are taking note and buying it.

Who was he to march in and start criticizing?

Peter Ridsdale has hardly been a rock of support, criticizing results, hurling brickbats at O'Leary and talking of offloading players.

I think it's time all of us who can see through this shabby fraud to start openly criticizing these charlatans.

Two years ago, French authorities famously arrested a blogger for criticizing the city mayor.

Currently, the mood on Capitol Hill seems very partisan, with each party criticizing the other's proposal.

Men had been convicted for criticizing the Red Cross, doubting the utility of knitting socks for soldiers, using abusive and intemperate language in arguments about the war or producing such a motion picture as The Spirit of '76 which in one part represented British soldiers using bayonets at the Wyoming valley massacre.

One might say tricked by Mick into criticizing Aston and therefore giving Mick the opportunity to reprimand the old man.

It is the vindictive spirit, the spirit that always demands reparation, that Christ is criticizing.

Thomas Arnold, criticizing Edward Hawkins, appeals rather to the atonement as deeper neglected truth.

Moreover, he wrote an article in the Edinburgh Review of July 1805 criticizing Sir William Gill's Topography of Troy, and these circumstances led Lord Byron to refer to him in English Bards and Scotch Reviewers as "the travell'd thane, Athenian Aberdeen."

The officers in the council, moreover, showed jealousy of the civil members, and to settle these difficulties and to provide money a parliament was summoned on the 27th of January 1659, which declared Richard protector, and incurred the hostility of the army by criticizing severely the arbitrary military government of Oliver's last two years, and by impeaching one of the major-generals.

One of them, Facts Addressed to Landholders, &c. (1780), written by Horne in conjunction with others, criticizing the measures of Lord North's ministry, passed through numerous editions; the other, A Letter on Parliamentary Reform (1782), addressed by him to Dunning, set out a scheme of reform, which he afterwards withdrew in favour of that advocated by Pitt.

It should be noted that the scene with Burke took place in the course of the debate on the Quebec Bill, in which Fox displayed real statesmanship by criticizing the division of Upper from Lower Canada, and other provisions of the bill, which in the end proved so injurious as to be unworkable.

The Stoics, for example, were more successful in criticizing the current creed than in explaining the underlying truth which they recognized in polytheism.

Nor is it of the first importance, save with the view of criticizing his own consistency, that we should adopt any of the divisions implied in his exposition.

He was welcomed back into the scientific coterie about Mersenne, and forthwith had the task assigned him of criticizing the Meditations of Descartes, which had been sent from Holland, before publication, to Mersenne with the author's request for criticism from the most different points of view.

In brief, the legislative councils were not only enlarged, but transformed into debating bodies, with the power of criticizing the executive.

Through an excessive reaction against the disintegration that had menaced the kingdom after the dissolution of the League, he fell into the abuse of over-centralization; and depriving the people of the habit of criticizing governmental action, he taught them a fatal acquiescence in uncontrolled and undisputed authority.

Have people annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?

The publication of the work was hindered by the police-censorship, which was especially active in criticizing his account of the Hussite movement.

One result of this was that it became increasingly difficult in political discussions to avoid criticizing the words and actions of the emperor.

So late as the 16th century, Bossuet delivered a panegyric upon her, and it was the action of Dom Deforis, the Benedictine editor of his works, in criticizing the accuracy of the data on which this was based, that first discredited the legend.