Instead, you can use a critical remark to learn something.

The one critical remark of the production was that the acting surpasses the script.

A spokesman described the supervisory committee's analysis of its activities as 'erroneous' and said the critical remarks were 'largely unfounded'.

He extrapolates this critical remark to the media across the board and its failure to focus public attention on the putative biological hazard of nuclear power.

The second use of 'censure' softens the word to something like 'critical remarks about turns of phrase'.

I might try to make a sarcastic remark, when he next flings open the windows.

According to research, the older a person gets, the less capable they are of detecting a sarcastic remark.

My approach was to make a sarcastic remark, remove the hand or simply step away.

They always have a sly and sarcastic remark for every situation and seem to pride themselves on that fact.

When approached with a straightforward question, he either kept silent or tried to get away with some sarcastic remark.

But last night he was said to be terrified that he had jeopardised his place on the show after his scathing remarks emerged.

I can only suggest that in future he read texts about whose authors he attempts to make scathing remarks with much greater care first.

It would be even funnier if the cans were electronically programmed to shout scathing remarks when people threw their garbage onto the sidewalk.

His was a silly remark, but it spoke volumes.

The newspaper's somewhat silly remark stems from two distinct illusions.

In my initial police training, we learnt that a police officer could not be insulted and that idle and silly remarks were unworthy of notice.

Major causes of disruption include pupils using mobiles, making silly remarks for attention, swinging on chairs, passing notes around and humming.

And thanks for the snide remark, stranger in the bar.

He had to give a 6am briefing to a 'senior cabinet minister', who greeted him with a snide remark.

He initially accuses a colleague of tampering with his sample, and gets a snide remark in return.

The only way to make progress was to ignore snide remarks and play it straight.

It turned out they had all heard about what happened and are still making snide remarks behind my back.

From the school playground onwards, my confidence has always crumbled at the first unkind remark or bit of casual cruelty.

Staff can forgive the emotional outburst and the occasional unkind remark, but not chronic, remorseless nastiness aimed specifically at them.

To his friends, she was an inexplicable choice of wife, and the subject of some rather disparaging and unkind remarks.

She cleverly responds with some witty remark or putdown.

It was a witty remark by the standards of late-night radio talk shows.

We could make a witty remark when they eventually put down their phone.

In the interval, a bespattered trumpet player emerged to make the only witty remark ever attributed to a theatrical musician.

Then the asides, the witty remarks, became a problem.