In 1998 one critic called this "a little gem of a book, immensely readable, laugh-out-loud funny and intensely moving."

Many critics called Sheehan's moving portrait of Frumkin one of the best reports on the life of a mental patient ever written.

Upon the release of No Line on the Horizon, many critics called "Magnificent" one of the album's highlights.

A friend of mine once wrote something a critic called "a waste of trees," but still you hope.

(Until subsequently amended again, in 1978, the effect of this provision was to establish what critics derisively called "leapfrog government".)

In 1964 one critic called this "an exciting story" and "a thoughtful study of those inexhaustible subjects, discipline and leadership."

In 1991 one critic called this "a perceptive, unapologetic self-portrait by an unrepentantly self-involved man."

In the 1980s, he developed chemical weapons, because of it critics called Libya a pariah state.

At that time there was also an element in his work of what one critic called "Gauguin gone crazy."

The debate was clouded by errors in Dr. Greenberg's 1987 book, which supporters termed trivial and critics called fatal.