conservative critic
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconservativeandcritic
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conservative
adjective
uk/kənˈsɜː.və.tɪv/us/kənˈsɝː.və.t̬ɪv/
not usually liking or trusting change, especially ...
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critic
noun[C]
uk/ˈkrɪt.ɪk/us/ˈkrɪt̬.ɪk/
someone who says that they do not approve of someone ...
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(Definition ofconservativeandcriticfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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As liberal andconservativecriticof the nation-state almost died away socialists held on to their beliefs.
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He was called an anticlerical and obscene novelist by aconservativecritic.
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He was one of the foremost literary critics of twentieth century, prominent especially as aconservativecritic.
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A trueconservativecriticdoes not think in terms of living for the moment, but in terms of years, decades, centuries and eternity.
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The "avant-garde" works take on value because they were "greeted with revulsion by conservative critics" (250).
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This view was not his but that of the disciples, eager to defend him against conservative critics whose orientation was towards symphonic composition.
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Meanwhile, both liberal and conservative critics have seized upon these practices as one more piece of evidence that bioethics has been coopted by the research community to legitimate its aims.
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So conservative critics typically emphasize "continuity" over change.
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However, conservative critics charge that the clinics have been used instead as an avenue for the professors to engage in left-wing political activism.
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As such, they avoided the wrath of conservative critics and social watchdogs.
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Many conservative critics argued it did not go nearly far enough, while many liberal critics argued it went too far.
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It has been used by conservative critics as a pejorative reference to certain utopian projects, such as socialism, communism, and transhumanism.
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After the destruction of the war, more conservative critics gained force particularly in their critique of the style of expressionism.
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The proposal for a casino has met with extensive opposition from many conservative critics.
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The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics.
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Conservative critics blamed rising inflation on the government's spending for public works projects.
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Since then, the appellation has been used by both liberal and conservative critics of the newspaper.
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While most critical response to this debut volume was positive, conservative critics were more guarded, or even catty.
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Conservative critics charged the meeting had been packed with radical outsiders.
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The phrase was derided by more conservative critics.
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