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• Her criticism followed swiftly. (10)
• It would diminish the amount of criticism. (16)
• He chafed at any criticism of his authority. (19)
• He was not strongest, however, in damnatory criticism. (9)
• Intellectual candor does not mark American criticism. (16)
• And opposition and criticism were to be his lot for years. (19)
• The cutlets of Alphonse were subject to snappish criticism. (10)
• Frank criticism will but help the task of judicious culling. (16)
• But the greatest gain to criticism remains to be pointed out. (16)
• They now employ criticism in moulding their literature of business. (16)
• V There is no reason why criticism should affect an equal hesitation. (9)
• I am not sure that any criticism is sufficiently large-minded for this. (9)
• No author, no publisher, should think that variety invalidates criticism. (16)
• If he is able, his disappointment will, on the contrary, help his criticism. (16)
• As I have already intimated, I doubt the more lasting effects of unjust criticism. (9)
• All five groups are discontented with the present condition of American criticism. (16)
• For the critic, whatever his ideals, criticism is, in whole or in part, his livelihood. (16)
• That would forestall the criticism that there are too many literary periodicals already. (9)
• Yet this is the course that criticism must always prescribe when it attempts to give laws. (9)
• He is writing for a certain audience; the criticism of that audience only, then, need count. (16)
• He was very sensitive to criticism, especially from those he valued through his head or heart. (9)
• For this kind of criticism there has even recently been claimed an actual identity with creation. (8)
• Perhaps criticism has a cumulative and final effect; perhaps it does some good we do not know of. (9)
• Whatever the apparent limitations of criticism, it actually takes the universe for its province. (16)
• Only through honest, widespread, really representative criticism, can the author know these things. (16)
• Disingenuous criticism tends in its turn to puzzle and disgust the public—and to hurt the publisher. (16)
• I was reading right and left in every direction, but chiefly in that of poetry, criticism, and fiction. (9)
• The reason lies in the general preference of publishers for criticism that is laudatory even if absurd. (16)
• The answer is implicit in the fact that criticism is supported, not by the public, but by the publisher. (16)
• Fair and candid criticism every one has a right to publish, although the author may suffer a loss from it. (16)
• Criticism, ever since I filled myself so full of it in my boyhood, I have not cared for, and often I have found it repulsive. (9)
• It is said in excuse that, as a city has the government, so the public has the criticism, which it deserves. (16)
• For the author, no matter how disinterested, criticism is reputation—perhaps a reputation that can be coined. (16)
• Forgivably enough, the author is of all persons the one most likely to be unjust to critics and to criticism. (16)
• That part of the public which appreciates criticism as an art maintains an eloquent silence and reads French. (16)
• A wise criticism will no more magnify Shakespeare because he is already great than it will magnify any less man. (9)
• The most important instance of criticism of this kind is afforded by current attacks upon the Associated Press. (16)
• Her heart had a blow in the thought, that a lady of this kind would create the pleasure by not bringing criticism. (10)
• Every body who saw it was pleased, but Mr. Elton was in continual raptures, and defended it through every criticism. (4)
• Your kindness to us is that which passes from nurse to infant; your criticism reminds one of paedagogue and urchin. (10)
• To argue that whenever two critics hold different opinions, the criticism of one of them must be valueless, is absurd. (16)
• All the reasons of public policy that give criticism its rights fly out of the window when malice walks in at the door. (16)
• Our criticism is disabled by the unwillingness of the critic to learn from an author, and his readiness to mistrust him. (9)
• I am afraid it would put an end to all criticism; and that if it were practised literature would be left to purify itself. (9)
• The second complaint of writers, that criticism is largely young and incompetent,—or merely incompetent,—is well founded. (16)
• They deal, to be sure, with the office of Criticism and the art of Fiction, and so far their present name is not a misnomer. (9)
• If the author is meant, the argument assumes that criticism is written for the instruction of the author, which is not true. (16)
• In respect of criticism, the publisher, of course, has no absolute rights, not even that of having his books noticed at all. (16)
• Her recent commands with respect to turbulent Venice were the subject of criticism among the circle outside the Piazza Gaffe. (10)
• But as dark a cloud of doubt rested upon its relations to the theatre as still eclipses the popular faith in dramatic criticism. (9)
• Creative talent may come off with all the dignity it went in with, and it may accomplish a very good work in demolishing criticism. (9)
• In spite of all that partisans of sympathetic criticism may say, hatred and malice may give as much insight into character as love. (16)
• She was not one of those who make disturbance with their brains and powers of criticism; rebellion leaped out from the heat in her heart. (8)
• But it will be long before criticism ceases to imagine itself a controlling force, to give itself airs of sovereignty, and to issue decrees. (9)
• Nor may the author argue more subtly that, until criticism is a science and truth unmistakable, he should be given the benefit of the doubt. (16)
• The trouble in judging anything is that if you have the materials for an intelligent criticism, the case is already prejudiced in your hands. (9)
• She was extremely uncharitable: she extended her ungenerous criticism to the institution of the footman: England, and the English, were lashed. (10)
• Although various critics write with success other things than criticism, the first complaint is based, I believe, upon what is generally a fact. (16)
• Honest criticism addressed to the public, by writers who study how to interest it rather than how to flatter the producers of books, would educate. (16)
• His opinions and his personality are proper subjects for criticism, but the charge of corruption should not be made recklessly and without good cause. (16)
• Criticism has no place in publicity of this sort, because criticism concerns itself only with the art and the broad interests of the theatre. (16)
• It is obvious that what is outrageous conduct may be admirable criticism, that what is admirable conduct may be inferior, shuffling criticism. (16)
• The string-quartets are not always in quartet style and their structure is sometimes open to criticism, but they are individual and contain much that is beautiful. (3)
• Of themselves, the conditions that surround the calling of the critic are enough to account for the absence from the American newspapers of authoritative criticism. (16)
• And although then, as now in criticism of political affairs, insincere men would sacrifice their standards to their popularity, they would still reflect public opinion. (16)
• The literary theories we accepted were New England theories, the criticism we valued was New England criticism, or, more strictly speaking, Boston theories, Boston criticism. (9)

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