Rieff is best known as a sympathetic critic of Freud's work and a not-so-sympathetic historian of its cultural importance.

Though he would later mock Schlegel, Heine found in him a sympathetic critic for his early verses.

Jewish critics sympathetic to the idea of exchanging populated territories have argued that it would be preferable to do this as part of a comprehensive peace agreement.

A sympathetic critic of organized transhumanism, Dacey is an advocate of culturing meat as an ethical alternative to using animals for meat.

Even the few sympathetic critics tended to temper their praises with disparaging remarks.

Maxwell was a more sympathetic critic, seeing the work (perhaps with tongue in cheek) as science baited with 'the allurement of some more human interest'.

Roberta Hellman and Marvin Hoshino, the artist's most sympathetic critics, have coined the term "white style" to describe the transparent illusionism she practices.

He was a sympathetic and delicate critic, with a graceful style.

More sympathetic critics, while still objecting to Wimsatt's tone, accepted as valuable and necessary his attempt to place criticism on a more objective basis.

More sympathetic critics, pointing to the same institutional sponsorship, have described him instead as 'the conscience of America'.