Among the landscapes of the Flemish school," says an enthusiastic critic (A.
This picture formerly belonged to the celebrated French critic Thore (who wrote under the name of "W.
Is she not beautiful," asks a criticbefore this picture, "in simplicity and solemn majesty?
A critic met a well-known dramatist on the Strand.
Here is a passage from Kyd's Spanish Tragedy at which many a critic has poked fun.
Intimate personal friends of Charlotte, also, would have been afflicted, not by her revelations, but by the commentaries upon them that a certain type of critic would have infallibly indulged in.
From this sprang the so-called American school of facsimile wood-engraving, which, until the advent of process, was the favourite cockshy of the literary critic who essayed to write upon the subject of art.
The average critic will blame a competent artist for the imperfections of a process and the ignorance of a printer.
When one considers these facts, which have been carefully ignored by a small set of artists, and, of course, are absolutely unknown to the ordinary critic and authority on the early printed book, two things become evident.
Some of his best are omitted, though we have to thank this self-same critic for preserving them for us.
If these speculative adventures do not turn out well, the scientific man is free to turn about and become the critic and satirist of his foiled ambitions.
But the critic in this case would not usually be cool or disinterested.
Such a position may be turned dialectically by invoking whatever positive hopes or convictions the critic may retain, who while he lives cannot be wholly without them.
But into this travail, into this digestion and reproduction of the thing seen, a critic can hardly enter.
Goethe may be called the ideal creative critic of life.
For so much there is ample warrant, and within the limits of such guarded conclusions the critic incurs little danger from the many pitfalls that beset the by-paths of deductive reasoning.
Stephens, was appointed art-critic of the very journal that had so violently forsworn “the Pre-Raphaelite heresy.
But, for such unintentional and unconscious neglect of the real leader of the movement which he so warmly endorsed, the great critic now made ample reparation.
A critic already quoted[12] has pointed out that there is “always in Rossetti’s women the kind of sorrow that ennobles affection.
I thought proper to premise this Observation to the Readers, as it will shew that the Critic on Shakespeare is of a quite different Kind.
Jeffrey, himself, was my critic last year; but this is, I believe, by another hand.
In the House of Commons he had been a strong opponent of the Government, an advocate of Parliamentary Reform, and a vigorous critic of naval administration.
Sir,--In my first article I endeavoured to show that the charges of disingenuousness brought against me by your critic not only missed their aim, but possessed a boomerang quality.
Each period in painting is generally boomed by some celebrated art critic who deprecates the old-fashioned methods and cracks up the new.
A critic had once described Mr. Castleton as a genius who had just missed fire, and the simile was an apt one.
Tristram, though appreciating the taunt, got up and put the critic outside the door.
Beaufort had been the one dramatic critic who did not imply that she was painful, and it was Beaufort who had latterly assured the Baronet that The World and his Wife would realise a fortune.
If the critic still find things to censure, let him pass over charitably in view of what might have been!
It will spare the critic to admit that the tale hereinafter related is a work of the imagination, and is not an historical romance.
I laid the queer epistle before my father, and we agreed that my outspoken critic was slightly demented.
It was ‘nae sae bad,’ as the Scotch critic said of Mrs. Siddons’s acting.
Lastly, frequent play-goers in Paris observe that the very slenderest novelty is sufficient to insure at a theater the (very considerable) physical presence of the conscientious critic of the "Temps.
It is to this serious way of taking the matter, to his thoroughly businesslike and professional attitude, to his unwearying attention to detail, that the critic of the "Temps" owes his enviable influence and the weight of his words.
Tzetzes also, the critic and grammarian, calls Apollonius "all-wise and a fore-knower of all things.
Her rest had never been disturbed by whispers of stolen copes; no critic had elevated his eyebrows at her infantile entomologist.
The most masterful critic and historian who has written of this campaign, says: At this point Hooker faltered.
A skilled military critic on the Northern side has characterized them as the best soldiers on earth.
A troublesome and dangerous critic is commonly bought or silenced.
A critic who cannot command a considerable backing among the electorate will probably be driven out of public life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "critic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
