6 sentences with “criticised”

Many novels written in the early 20th century criticised the hypocrisy of social elites and their pretensions to righteousness.

The Mongols trained relentlessly; during brief periods of peace they participated in great animal hunts which were then criticised by their commanders.

What existentialism and postmodernism had in common was that, in very different ways, they criticised many aspects of Western culture, from the progressive narrative of history to traditional religious beliefs.

The vacant lot where I played as a child taught me about anger when the Klein brothers threw huge lumps of dirt at each other; and about love, because if anyone criticised one of them, they would have to deal with both of them.

The Swiss Carl Jung (1875-1961) criticised Freud in a famous letter of 1912 for "always being above like a father, in what is total subjugation.... ". By rejecting Freudian pansexualism, Jung also gave rise to a "collective unconscious" marked by supra-individual archetypes.

Erasmus was criticised by some of his superiors within the Church because he was not officially authorised to carry out his studies and translations; however, he ended up producing an extensively annotated re-translation of the New Testament with numerous corrections. Importantly, these corrections were not just a matter of grammar, but of meaning.