Example sentences of "is critical of [art] " in BNC.

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1 In his 1842 ‘ Irish Sketchbook ’ William Makepeace Thackeray has compliments to pay , all the more valuable because he is critical of a great many other , better-known places which he visited during his tour of Ireland .
2 Jean-Marie Schaefer , for example , writing in L'art de l'âge moderne , l'esthétique et la philosophie de l'art du XVIII siècle à nos jours ( Modern art : aesthetics and philosophy in art , from the eighteenth-century to the present day ) , is critical of a lack of coherent criteria for making value judgements , finding fault more with the theories justifying the works than with the works of art themselves .
3 Even that letter was written after pressure from the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation ( IMRO ) whose chief executive John Morgan is critical of the way the managers have reacted .
4 Even that letter was written after pressure from the Investment Management Regulatory Organisation ( IMRO ) whose chief executive John Morgan is critical of the way the managers have reacted .
5 He is critical of the high cost and low success rate of the ET scheme .
6 Barthes 's caveats against recuperation have been most convincingly demonstrated by Stephen Heath ( 1972 ) who is critical of the tendency towards naturalization : the radical experience of the nouveau roman is undermined when the novels are subjected to reductive readings of the psychologizing variety enacted by Morrissette , however much these may be encouraged by the novelists themselves .
7 Like most women who have worked in it , she is critical of the grant-aided sector but despite the failures , she believes that the original aims were worthwhile .
8 With his accountant 's help he eventually moved his accounts to the Midland , which gave him the overdraft on reasonable terms , but he is critical of the way banks look at small businesses , believing that many only look at the business sector rather than at the person running a particular business .
9 Mr Warrilow is critical of the custody lobby .
10 Finally , and in answer to the third question , Devlin is critical of the apparent necessity , according to Wolfenden , for special circumstances to exist in order to justify the intervention of the law .
11 Holman is critical of the 1975 Children Act for taking no cognisance of the link between child separation and poverty .
12 This view is critical of the concept of ‘ parental rights ’ which is seen as being still too influential in popular thinking about parents and children .
13 In , his autobiography he is critical of the quality of his local officials who , under pressures from their members , came to be seen as " relieving officers coming to the assistance of every seaman who is down and out " whether their hard luck stories were true or not .
14 It does not believe that all parents have been informed of their rights under the Act and it is critical of the lack of training for parent governors .
15 In the main , he is critical of the trend towards over-watering and over-feeding , and explains their detrimental effect on the condition of British courses .
16 The National Consumer Council ( NCC ) is critical of the European Community 's agricultural policies , which produce the wrong sort of food to maintain good health as well as keeping food prices too high .
17 At its hard edge it is critical of the threat of socialism itself , but it is also critical of Keynesianism — that theory of economic management which dominated the political consensus from the Second World War to the mid-seventies and which sought to maintain full(ish) levels of employment on the basis of governments managing the economy by manipulating the level of demand by putting money into , or taking it out of , the economy .
18 Lawton ( 1980 ) is critical of the " continuum hypothesis " as it applies to Jamaica .
19 A statement issued by over 100 groups and alliances , including the Brazilian Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations , the Pan-African Movement , Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace , is critical of the North 's failure to commit itself to concrete moves on fair trade , debt reduction , poverty alleviation and technology transfer .
20 But it is understood that a new report is critical of the system developed at the Peto institute in Hungary , finding no difference with conventional therapies .
21 However , he is critical of the staffing levels in the prison 's acute psychiatric unit , the lack of racial minorities amoung the inmates and the effects of stress on staff .
22 There is also a connection with the psychoanalytical tradition of interpreting cultural phenomena and personal experiences and a trace of intellectual Marxism that is critical of an existing order and its received interpretation .
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