Critique \Cri*tique"\ (kr[i^]*t[=e]k"), n. [F. critique, f., fr. Gr. kritikh` (sc. te`chnh) the critical art, from kritiko`s. See {Critic}.] 1. The art of criticism. [Written also {critic}.] [R.]
2. A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and thorough analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's ``Critique of Pure Reason.''
I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal. --Addison.
3. A critic; one who criticises. [Obs.]
A question among critiques in the ages to come. --Bp. Lincoln.
Critique \Cri*tique"\, v. t. [Cf. {Critic}, v.] To criticise or pass judgment upon. [Obs.] --Pope.
The charge is made most eloquently in a recent stinging critique of public policy by a council on competitiveness set up by Republican governor Pete Wilson.
Antoni Miralda's installation in the Spanish pavilion, complete with a large fetishistic shoe and a giant bouquet of pink flowers, makes a nod toward radical social critique but remains rooted in kitsch.
Dennis Hunt, black-music critic for the Los Angeles Times, was less reticent to critique the family's music.
Similarly, Mr. Gates was a stern taskmaster in insisting on more factual evidence to support a critique of the Afghan resistance forces.
But on Tuesday, in a blistering critique of Gorbachev's reforms, Ligachev carefully avoided a personal attack on him, and did not repeat his demand to elect someone who could devote full time to party work.
The late Leon Jaworski, the famed Watergate special prosecutor, wrote a scathing critique after attending one of Grusin's sessions.
The pope says that we can now see how prescient Leo XIII was in his scathing critique of the socialist idea 100 years ago.
Don't expect the school to rate or critique local physicians, though.
He worked his way up the ladder while submitting his daily diaries to his father, who would critique his thoughts and actions, according to family friends.
I can't say the trip to the state of California's desert had a heck of a lot to do with it, but if you'd listen to some of the critique from Capitol Hill you'd have thought it had been a disaster.
Jacques Rueff's critique of the sterling and dollar standards, recently revived by John Mueller and Lewis Lehrman, makes it clear that the country whose currency fills the role of international reserve is doomed to a balance-of-payments deficit.
With test-marketing scheduled to get underway in the fourth quarter, Reynolds has been inviting the independent scientists to review and critique its research on the smokeless cigarette.
"The whole purpose is to give outsiders a chance to critique the reports.
"A religious vision for the channel is still very much in evidence, and that has kept Family struggling to find a balance between the wholesome and the holy," says a recent critique in television trade journal Channels.
Last year, he delivered a withering critique of Mr. Lawson's earlier policy of linking the pound to the West German mark.
Pravda published a front-page critique of the way the Communist Party has ruled the Soviet Union, saying the system that emerged over the past 70 years was dictatorial and destructive.
As she got up to leave, she thanked him for the feedback and said she appreciated the critique (which she did).
Under Kabaidze's earthy language and punchy delivery lurked a serious critique of Soviet problems, including the unwieldy bureaucracy and inefficient economy about which Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev so often complains.
In a 50-page critique, the Environmental Defense Fund charges that Green Cross Certification Co. has been lax in awarding its seal of approval to various products.
The government's top securities regulator Thursday defended a study of last October's stock market slide against a bitter critique by the rival Commodity Futures Trading Commission.