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critic
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[ noun ] (work) a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art
Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)The cowboy films , the cops and robbers films , and the slapstick comedy films culminating in an insane chase are not_only catering to what critics may assume to be a vulgar taste for violence ; these films and these sequences are also seeking_out - instinctively or by_design - the peculiarly cinematic elements of narrative . (James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)I called the other afternoon on my old friend , Graves_Moreland , the Anglo-American literary critic - his mother was_born in Ohio - who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson_Downs , raising_hell and peacocks , the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old_man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing , such_as human stature , hope , and humor . |
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[ noun ] anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something
Used in print (W. E. B. DuBois, Worlds of Color....)Ann_Catt was a lonely , devoted soul , never married , conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church , but a perpetual dissenter and born critic . (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)That after all his years of effort to become a composer , he should now , now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse_on_the_Arts_and_Sciences , be so close to a success in music and have_to reject it . Related terms evaluator reviewer drama_critic music_critic appraiser panelist taster grader criticise |
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