Criticism

Criticism

Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something or someone in an intelligible (or articulate) way.

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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:

    “Good criticism is very rare and always precious.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “Parents sometimes feel that if they don’t criticize their child, their child will never learn. Criticism doesn’t make people want to change; it makes them defensive.”
    —Laurence Steinberg (20th century)