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Popular fiction of the 1940s and '50s was full of scathing descriptions of women whose deceptive blondness was dark at the roots.
When they don't, scathing commentary appears in the press.
USAT goes with a "scathing" Carnegie foundation report concluding that many undergraduates at research institutions graduate "without knowing how to think logically, write clearly or speak coherently."
The New York Times ' Michiko Kakutani comes down the hardest, turning in a scathing review in which she calls the book "an airless, tedious production" that "represents a sharp falling off in ambition, nuance and vision from Mr. Wallace's previous works of fiction."
National Review has been scathing in its attacks on the GOP leadership, yet it has yet to be ostracized.