Example sentences for: dissenting

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  • A more pleasant story was the first successful circumnavigation of the world by two men in a balloon, the Breitling Orbiter 3. Their achievement was generally received with enthusiasm--the Times of London said mankind should rejoice and El País of Madrid that it had been the world's last great adventure--but there were also dissenting voices.

  • In this kind of political and economic climate, how likely is it that dissenting voices will have any effect before it is too late?

  • and the belief that Americans are basically a good and just people--some of this stuff will make you weep" (Brent Staples, the New York Times Book Review ). Osha Gray Davidson, dissenting in the Los Angeles Times Book Review , accuses Wolfe of romanticizing the middle class: "a wet kiss masquerading as social science."

  • Dissenting is the Los Angeles Times ' Richard Eder, who says Roy "inflates story into epic, the modest magic of perception into an occasional clumsy piece of magic realism."

  • The undersea sci-fi adventure is dismissed as "another variation of the same old supernatural junk" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Critics deplore the film's pretentious pronouncements about man's place in the universe and say Levinson is "out of his element" trying to build suspense (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Janet Maslin calls the stars' performances irresistible and salutes Levinson for tackling a new genre.


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