The first performance of the last named work occasioned a demonstration in the concert hall from a hostile critic.

In good part, it comes from failing to grasp the nature of his politics - and here hostile critics have been responsible for misrepresentation, too.

The critics, sometimes hostile to his choreography, were overwhelmed.

Yet even some hostile critics have conceded his literary talent and his influence.

Isolation, the call for a lonely struggle against hostile critics, will not help.

The overall exterior effect was conceded even by hostile architectural critics to be warmly human.

The first major show of her work was held in 2007 at Modern Art Oxford, which won over some previously hostile critics.

To hostile critics, bebop seemed to be filled with "racing, nervous phrases".

It's my belief, however, that these hostile critics are not the mothers of preschool children stuck inside on a slushy Monday.

We have fallen too much into the habit of imagining that only hostile critics tell the truth.