pseudo-criticism

He won't be able to get away with mush like the meaningless pseudo-criticism he directed at McCain on taxes.

Rudy Jabs At McCain; Fudges His Position On Iraq 2009

In reviews, what abbreviated pseudo-criticism takes place tends even more heavily toward self-aggrandizement.

Throw Michiko Into the Waste Land : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits 2007

PUNCH is tolerably well up in this line of pseudo-criticism, he has prepared the following description of the private view of either the Royal

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various

Many years ago Sainte-Beuve destroyed this shallow artifice of pseudo-criticism:

Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

Ironically, he begins with a pseudo-criticism of "[p] eople [using] quotes and misquotes."

Breaking Spells MO Joplin 2008

I might make merry over the fact that there are many Bridgets, some say eleven; even as there are three or four St. Patricks; and raise learned doubts as to whether such persons ever existed, after that St.aussian method of pseudo-criticism which cometh not from above, from the Spirit of God, nor yet indeed from below, from the sound region of fact, but from within, out of the naughtiness of the heart, defiling a man.

Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847

Many years ago Sainte-Beuve destroyed this shallow artifice of pseudo-criticism: "Venir nous dire que tout poëte de talent est, par essence, un grand _penseur_, et que tout vrai

Life of Robert Browning William Sharp 1880