And by "critical, " I doubt very much that Ebert would have meant a position of carping or complaining or even cutting-down-to-size so much as a state of heightened perception, of being open enough to the possibility that whatever you're looking at or listening to may not be what it seems -- or should be.
Australia, plunged into grief despite its carping, talked of holding a state funeral for him.
If military action goes ahead, if it is successful, if Iraq looks reasonably stable afterwards and if the world is a safer place as a result then all the carping will be instantly forgotten.
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Carping, too, about whether he has the gravitas for a talk show that takes itself so seriously.
So reforming the professions is likely to remain a grinding, thankless task, subject to endless carping and obstruction from practitioners.
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They are also carping about her New Yorkiness she did not learn to drive a car until her late 20s and her supposed isolation from the lives of ordinary Americans.
European socialists' carping at the supposedly heartless policies inflicted on Russia by American neo-liberals strikes a melodious chord in Russian ruling circles.
There may be carping about the hardships of the extra games now, but watch: It will dissipate in a swirl of horse-trading necessary to make a deal.
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Leading a global alliance of good against evil might strike him as a worthier challenge than running Britain, what with its tedious political conferences at seaside resorts, and its carping about trains.
He said criticism of the tax package reminded him of the carping he faced during the health-care debate, when many on the left fixated on the inability to create a government-run health-insurance option instead of lauding an expansion of health-insurance coverage to 30 million people.
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