(1) Born in July 1954, Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne (his surname until he went to Oxford) has always been something of a Marmite politician, attracting both loyalty and affection, as well as brickbats and disdain.
(2) Fifty years later, Frostie, as his aristocratic nephews and nieces sometimes called him (his wife, Carina, was a daughter of the Duke of Norfolk), was still warding off brickbats from high-minded critics.
(3) All this, over a company – recently bought by Spotify , which may explain some of the brickbats - that’s trying to figure out new ways to harness “big data” to help people find more music that they like, and to swell the audiences of the artists making it.
(4) Brickbats are flung at the console's launch lineup: some decent exclusives, but also some flawed titles; the fact that it costs $100 more than Sony's PS4; the delayed ability to stream your gaming feats live using Twitch; and the lack of backwards compatibility with Xbox 360.
(5) Australia has so far been awarded the daily “fossil of the day” brickbat three times at the Warsaw summit.
(6) He has just taken a cherished, 1920s-set story, hot-wired it with Jay-Z and Lana Del Rey songs, and is now braced for the brickbats.
(7) In a 2014 article about the first season, Slate’s J Bryan Lowder wrote : “Straight critics and viewers seeking liberal cred will find an easy tool here; Looking is, after all, gay without any of the hard parts (dick included), gay that’s polite and comfortable and maybe a little titillating but definitely not all up in your face about it.” The week’s best new TV: Looking, BoJack Horseman and Vikings Read more Despite the brickbats, Looking was renewed for a second season, and matured into a layered portrait of contemporary gay friendships and relationships.
(8) Yes, he’s taken brickbats but he has delivered more Liberal Democrat policies to make us a stronger and fairer society than any previous Liberal leader for several generations.
(9) Finally Clarke's promise to be more "open" is also a change of tack for a retailer more used to letting brickbats bounce off its thick hide.
(10) With a CV that includes prominent roles with the Conservative party, Oxford University, the governorship of Hong Kong and the House of Lords, Lord Patten is no stranger to the life of intense scrutiny and brickbats faced by public figures.
(11) Top job New culture secretaries rarely attract brickbats, but even so the former Charterhouse head boy is a favourite of industry leaders.
(12) Dixon appeared alongside counterparts from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Deloitte and KPMG – each of them stoney-faced while taking a volley of brickbats from angry MPs of all parties for two and a half hours.
(13) Ever since he took on Rupert Murdoch he has believed he can rewrite the rules of politics No aspiring Labour prime minister, however gamely he shrugs off the brickbats, can afford to lose the support of business and the creative intelligentsia.
(14) Davie celebrated record audiences for BBC Radio 2 and its breakfast host Chris Evans, but the brickbats outweighed the bouquets with the corporation's controversial plan to close digital station BBC 6 Music.
(15) Dungeon Keeper (Free) Publisher EA is attracting a few brickbats from gamers unimpressed with its freemium strategy, but Dungeon Keeper is actually pretty good.
(16) It would be useful, though, if any brickbats lobbed at them weren’t made of sponge – if accusations aimed in their direction could be shown to be not merely in the public interest but factually true to boot.
(17) Maybe the next government, whatever the colour, will indulge in the same antics and suffer the same brickbats.
(18) Activists – for racial equality or gender or disability – perennially confront the same brickbats: you've a chip on your shoulder; you're special pleading, you're seeking special consideration.
(19) Given the brickbats and the sheer scale of the job, Crozier seems remarkably upbeat.
(20) But if Defra has attracted its share of ire, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has also suffered brickbats.
Criticism
Definition:
(n.) The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.
(n.) The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.
Example Sentences:
(1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
(2) The hypothesis that proteins are critical targets in free radical mediated cytolysis was tested using U937 mononuclear phagocytes as targets and iron together with hydrogen peroxide to generate radicals.
(3) The interaction of the antibody with both the bacterial and the tissue derived polysialic acids suggests that the conformational epitope critical for the interaction is formed by both classes of compounds.
(4) Ursodeoxycholate was the only dihydroxy bile salt which was able to solubilize phospholipid (although not cholesterol) below the critical micellar concentration.
(5) The pathology resulting from a missense mutation at residue 403 further suggests that a critical function of myosin is disrupted by this mutation.
(6) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
(7) Anaerobes, in particular Bacteroides spp., are the predominant bacteria present in mixed intra-abdominal infections, yet their critical importance in the pathogenicity of these infections is not clearly defined.
(8) Even former Florida governor Jeb Bush, one of Trump’s chief critics, said ultimately, “anybody is better than Hillary Clinton”.
(9) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(10) Critics say he is unelectable as prime minister and will never be able to implement his plans, but he has nonetheless pulled attention back to an issue that many thought had gone away for good.
(11) The high incidence of infant astigmatism has implications for critical periods in human visual development and for infant acuity.
(12) It isn't share ownership but the way people are managed that's critical.
(13) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
(14) The present studies indicated that the critical level at which HbCO influenced VO2 max was approximately 4.3%.
(15) Brewdog backs down over Lone Wolf pub trademark dispute Read more The fast-growing Scottish brewer, which has burnished its underdog credentials with vocal criticism of how major brewers operate , recently launched a vodka brand called Lone Wolf.
(16) Last week the WHO said the outbreak had reached a critical point, and announced a $200m (£120m) emergency fund.
(17) Critical in this understanding are the subtle changes that occur in the individual patient, reflecting the natural history of the disease or response to its treatment.
(18) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(19) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(20) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.