In the absence of intellectuals, cultural critique ends up in the hands of trolls and second-rate thinkers.

He challenges conventional literary forms in service of cutting cultural critique.

The pastel work almost serves as a pleasurable respite from the demands of a cultural critique in its joyful celebration of community.

His cross disciplinary approach, outsider aesthetic and overriding cultural critique defines his work.

In his philosophy and cultural critique he has tried to identify zones where art pushes the concept to the front, so that the felt world can freshly understand itself.

It presents a devastating critique of procurement processes that waste an estimated 2 billion a year.

It's a fairly devastating critique, this, painting the press as irresponsible and amoral; a nihilistic force of mob-handed destruction.

It's a devastating critique of those who cheapen forgiveness, making it into something we can achieve in an instant.

As a young man, he was influenced by the romantic movement and medievalism, and developed a devastating critique of industrialism.

It would give the candidates a great opportunity to crystallise their message to the nation, to offer a critique of their opponent and, each in turn, to rebut that critique.

She said the surge hasn't had a chance to be in place long enough to offer a critique of how it's working.

A philosopher has to understand this basic structure and offer a critique of it.

The film seems to be offering a critique of the narrow self-obsession of these young people.

Instead of offering a critique of a marketised society the church appears to be embracing it.

Pop art and design could both celebrate pop culture and provide a critique of it.

Commentators want him to provide a critique.

The aim of the group was to provide a critique of neoliberalism coupled with a way forward in a distinct strategy and institutional model of development.

A recent (2014) paper provides a critique of existing studies that purport to demonstrate that fish feel pain.

A scathing critique of the couch-potato mainstream when it was written, this polemic anticipated both rap and, less comfortably, today's fragmented, web-addled catatonia.

And was it, given his scathing critique of big business, true to his own values?

Another commentator added his own scathing critique.

The targets of her scathing critiques were many and their backgrounds varied.

It’s a more cutting social critique than people remember.

The resulting performances - lively, giddy and authentic - define the movie, while the upbeat ending sweetens an otherwise stinging social critique.

Dig a little deeper, though, and the social critique really kicks in.

The lovely upbeat ending sweetens an otherwise stinging social critique.

Three-and-a-half decades on, it's still a fantastic rock'n'roll record and a devastating social critique, but it's no longer dangerous.