Preposition: of

• Marxism: But I still find your theoretical criticisms of Marxism wholly unpersuasive.

• judge: However, the increasing criticism of judges is not due to a lack of legal understanding.

Preposition: from

• quarter: This project will undoubtedly receive criticism from many quarters and we sense that this commitment will be crucial in the next stages of development.

Converse of object

• deflect: But a shameless decision has been made to deflect criticism by misleading press and public.

• attract: Joe Shaw Your style is great, it attracts criticism from us mere males.

• provoke: The exhibition contained around 30 wallpaper samples, all bright, and all intended to provoke criticism, comment and memories from visitors.

• damn: The tribunal made damning criticisms of the way in which the Prison Service had handled the matter.

• reject: Andrew Colman rejected the criticism of our supposed lack of balance whilst assuring the Orange leaders that he respected their right to their views.

• dismiss: He dismissed criticisms of the ethics of somatic gene therapy.

Adjective modifier

• constructive: Any constructive criticisms or ideas for new topics are most welcome.

• literary: He is the author of two books of literary criticism.

• textual: He could not add to many of the technical aspects of the Western science of textual criticism.

• harsh: It is unusually harsh criticism, especially coming from a close ally.

• biblical: In its attempt to be in step with contemporary literary criticism, much biblical criticism unfortunately is somewhat obsolete on arrival.

• fierce: HIPs have come in for fierce criticism from the property industry, with some warning that they may even risk destabilizing the housing market.

Noun used with modifier

• hypertext: Many people miss out on a lot of good hypertext criticism.

• art: I was also nervous of the rather stuffy terminology and arty jargon, which I had seen, used sometimes in art criticism.

• film: Also provides access to various online indexes for film reviews and film criticism and a database of video distributors in the US.