But the most damning and frequent criticism of Mr. McCall is that he does not have the fire needed for a real contest.

The most damning criticism was perhaps one that any underdog hates to hear: good guy, but unlikely to win.

"Ronald Reagan still truly did not believe that what had happened had, in fact, happened," he writes in perhaps his most damning criticism of his former boss.

The most damning and lasting criticism, however, came from the Romantic essayist Charles Lamb in a letter to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge:

He had no damning criticism or words of encouragement to offer the captain of a crippled starship.

Perhaps the most damning criticism of Crawford's performance came years later in Donald Zec and Anthony Fowles's biography of Streisand, Barbra.

Some feel that the most damning criticism of Lovborg is that his "freedom" isn't any different from Brack's.

From a credibility standpoint, the most damning criticism was of repeated and continuing bias in the Pentagon investigation, even during the last 10 months, well after the Pentagon claimed to have cleaned up its efforts.

It concluded with some damning criticism.

This was one of the most damning criticisms of the Commission.