Mr. Connerly, speaking by telephone from California, offered a scathing assessment of today's hearing.

Because of a smattering of good performances, critics accustomed to making scathing assessments of most such efforts wrote not-so-bad reviews.

Julia gasped, stung by his scathing assessment of her actions.

But in his column, he offered a scathing assessment of his former boss.

In 1987, an expert committee offered a scathing assessment of the analysis the Corps used in drawing up the plan.

After that comprehensive, scathing and unfortunately accurate assessment, no one could think of a thing to add, or they were too 183 scared of Old Sam to try.

The report, the latest of several scathing assessments of intelligence failures, recommends dozens of major changes at the 15 intelligence agencies.

Texas Defender Service, a nonprofit group of defense lawyers, released a broad and scathing assessment of Texas's administration of the death penalty.

The report, which is still available online, is a scathing 166-page assessment of an administration that has, at best, neglected core civil rights issues.

Professor Abramovsky offered a more scathing assessment of the news organizations' conduct in using the juror's name.