noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a film critic
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The review was written by 'The Daily Telegraph’s' film critic.
confound the critics/pundits/experts etc
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United’s new striker confounded the critics with his third goal in as many games.
vocal opponent/critic/supporter etc
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She was a vocal opponent of the plan.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fierce
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The Government could breathe a sigh of relief at the disappearance of some of its fiercest critics .
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But now city officials find themselves embroiled in a battle with a fierce critic of the law: the Roman Catholic Church.
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The Conservatives believe that it would be a major advantage to have Mr Woodhead as a fierce government critic in the Lords.
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Its fiercest critics , Jumblatt and Sfeir, have also been approached by the president.
harsh
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A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices.
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They have been among the United Nations' harshest critics and loudest advocates of reform.
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The harshest critics would say that while top executives tried to manage the acquisitions, they forgot to run their companies.
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Raoul, for example, had often ended up in the role of unavailable, harsh critic .
literary
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He was equally admired by literary critics , such as Southey and De Quincey.
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She is learning skills that trial lawyers and literary critics , alike, use.
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Morrison clearly enjoyed this foray into the territory of the literary critic .
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Koenig, a literary and theater critic , lives in London.
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Megill writes not as a literary critic but as a philosophically trained historian of ideas.
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Quintilian, the greatest Roman literary critic , said that it added something to the received religion.
outspoken
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Her father was an eccentric, outspoken critic of the government, who was killed by police in 1985.
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Next day we lunched with a young politician known as the most outspoken critic of Smith and the government.
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From January 1891 it appeared as the Lagos Weekly Record, and was for forty-nine years an outspoken critic of colonialism.
social
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This passage would be followed by one written by a more existentially oriented social critic .
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Serious journalists and social critics have an answer, at least so far as news is concerned.
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It might seem that adolescents are doomed for ever to be ideological social critics .
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Some people think he was the devil incarnate; others think he was a great social critic .
vocal
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The priest, Gleb Yakunin, long has been a vocal critic and irritant to secular as well as religious authorities.
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An increasingly vocal group of critics sees a deep menace, for example, in the Internet.
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Sun is campaigning against Microsoft Corp., a vocal critic of the standards plan.
■ NOUN
art
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Incidentally, the good art critic should be the reader's friend in refusing to be impressed by art market prices.
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Here, in 1989, an exhibit of photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe aroused the wrath of art critics in Congress.
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Marriage to a middle-aged art critic who has turned dealer.
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An art critic also needs a gift for persuasion, perhaps rather more than a head for exposition and argument.
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The art critic is thus bound to consider with care what standards of comparison should be used.
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Between 1908 and 1912 Ross was art critic on the Morning Post.
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Richard Dorment, art critic of the Daily Telegraph, is certainly not impressed.
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Any art critic may take such a position, but a historian almost never.
film
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Vincent Canby, the influential New York Times film critic , has died aged 76.
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The film has gotten good reviews, but it has scared the wits out of some male film critics .
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Today we are a film critic .
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After the University of Montpellier he worked first as a film critic , then as a reporter in Paris.
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The two day forum will consider, amongst other issues, the current role of the film critic .
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Have new television channels, satellite cable etc. made the film critic redundant and fit for an academic existence only?
music
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Unfortunately, Howard Reich, a Chicago music critic , fails to solve the mystery of the pianist's rise and disappearance.
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Examiner music critic Philip Elwood is the dean of Bay Area jazz writers.
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While hipper contemporaries were playing the clubs the music critics went to, he was making a living playing local pubs.
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Is the guy trying to make life difficult for music critics , or what?
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Later he became the New Yorker's music critic and went on to be music editor of the Listener.
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Leaving behind the familiar phrasings, Coltrane began to produce swirls of sound and visceral shrieks that puzzled and angered music critics .
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Bob Halliday, music critic of the Bangkok Post, says it is.
theatre
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Indeed, his position as Town's theatre critic meant that she was getting some evenings out free as well.
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We challenged them to make our theatre critic , Joe Riley, laugh.
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Brandon Thomas opted to unveil his Aunt away from London fearful that the capital's theatre critics would tear it to pieces.
■ VERB
lead
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Kyl, one of the leading critics of the weapons convention, in effect borrowed from the implementing legislation for the convention.
write
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Worst production of the year, wrote one London critic .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Daley accused critics of the city's Police Department of lying.
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Film critic Roger Ebert has a new partner for his movie-review television program.
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For five years she was theater critic for the New Yorker.
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I didn't think the book was as bad as the critics said it was.
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She started as a food critic for a local paper.
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The Prime Minister answered his critics in a televised speech.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Given the numbers of the disadvantaged, critics of Treasury ridicule the whole proposal.
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He was viewed by critics as being secretive, arrogant and aloof, but supporters described him as progressive and effective.
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Protestant critics, looking for a religion denuded of magic, would enlist the Bible on their side.
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Serious journalists and social critics have an answer, at least so far as news is concerned.
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The Thatcher record since 1979 has been accompanied by a good deal of inflationary rhetoric from both supporters and critics.
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There were the critics on the newspapers who had praised the vividness and accuracy of the books.