Definition: 1. A person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art. 2. Anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something. 3. Someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments.
Use 'critic' in a sentence:
1. It is necessary that a critic develop a sensibility informed by familiarity with the history of art and aesthetic theory.
2. He says he doesn't care about what the critics write, but I know different.
3. Each critic in those examples is charging, in a different way, that someone in authority is intentionally being incurious.
4. Moreover, another critic notes that the Spanish and English traditions of Cuban-American writing have different but equally viable functions.
5. The modern mind, Tim Parks, a novelist and critic, writes, "is overwhelmingly inclined toward communication."
6. He was a stern critic but an extremely kindly man.
7. So far from admitting his own mistake, he falsely accused his critic.
8. She is a critic of works on military affairs.
9. His extraordinary brilliance as a critic is really just part of the experience of reading him.
10. The critics tore his last movie to shreds.
11. Simon Mayo, a film critic at the BBC, experienced a "new low" during a film.
12. Brown himself has been a stern critic of taxing financial transactions, and he himself knows that this kind of idea is totally unreliable.
13. His work won him plaudits from the critics.
14. New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni characterizes the new restaurant demeanor as "extreme solicitousness tinged with outright desperation." "You need to hug the customer," one owner told him.
15. The president has so far managed to outmanoeuvre his critics.
16. She is one of the ruling party's most outspoken critics.
17. Malaysia has emerged as the toughest critic of the North's environmental attitudes.
18. One longtime critic, Les Perelman, has drawn national attention several times for putting together nonsense essays that have fooled software grading programs into giving high marks.
19. The show was rated a success by critics and audiences.
20. A serious critic has to comprehend the particular content, unique structure, and special meaning of a work of art.
21. The critic in the local paper says it's the funniest thing he's ever seen.
22. He felt no animosity towards his critics.
23. This critic generated I think some undue rivalry between ballet and modern dance, and it would take a long time, many years in fact, for the rivalry to calm down.
24. The film was damned by the critics for its mindless violence.
25. He used the interview to take a swipe at his critics.
26. The play received a mauling from the critics.
27. I'm not going to trust the restaurant critic from that magazine again.
28. Her latest novel has been savaged by the critics.
29. For this critic, photography was linked with "the great industrial madness" of the time, which in his eyes exercised disastrous consequences on the spiritual qualities of life and art.
30. An experimental version of the traditional scholarly methods course was designed to raise students' consciousness about the usefulness of traditional learning for any modern critic or theorist.
31. It is not the fussing critic.
32. The play was warmly received by the critics.
33. The critic must recognize the artistic element of uniqueness that requires subjective reaction; yet she must not be unduly prejudiced by such reactions.
34. There are two ways to interpret Plutarch when he thinks that a critic should be able to produce "a better in its place".
35. The critics raved about his performance in 'Hamlet'.
36. Turner is a writer and critic.
37. Critics have concentrated too much on the formal elements of her poetry, without really looking at what it is saying.
38. The move was widely seen as an attempt to appease critics of the regime.
39. We want an estimate of the proportion of oil which the blindfold, mill-turning, unbiased critic can squeeze out of you.
40. Her recent achievements have silenced her critics.
41. Politicians are skilled at defending themselves against their critics.
42. The critics compared his work to that of Martin Amis.
43. Her latest novel was dissected by the critics.
44. She confounded her critics and proved she could do the job.
45. He was also for a time an art critic.
46. The critic's review of the play was just a paragraph of bile.
47. Critics say his paintings are worthless.
48. The play was given a mixed reception by the critics.
49. The play was well received by the critics.
50. Mather was a film critic for many years.
51. The film took a battering from critics in the US.
52. His latest movie has won high praise from the critics.
53. The critics loved the movie.
54. The prime minister fired a broadside at his critics.
55. Instead, we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles, which now more than ever seem in ample supply: the critic of American materialism with a Southampton summer home.
56. The critic found the play "a feeble rehash of familiar Miller themes."
57. The latter, an art and literary critic, who eventually recognised that camera images could be inspired as well as informative.
58. Critics remarked that the play was not original.
