They delivered a blistering critique at meetings on Feb. 21 and 22 sponsored by Javits Center officials and the architects.

But, in a break with this norm, Mr. Carter delivered a blistering critique of President Bush in two interviews released Saturday.

Kirkus Reviews finds it a "timely, blistering critique... white-hot... Explosive fuel for the raging debate on oil prices."

His evening plans notwithstanding, Mr. Clinton offered a blistering critique of the amount of money in politics today.

The commission's report included blistering critiques of current policy.

The opera was tepidly received, and soon thereafter Beethoven's well-meaning friends subjected the score to a blistering critique, slashing and pruning.

After Mr. Gingrich issued a blistering critique of the State Department in a speech in April, the department fired back.

It delivers a blistering critique of the current occupant of the White House.

But his Democratic colleague, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who has studied welfare policy for decades, offered a blistering critique.

Judge Roberts wrote a blistering critique, saying the "obvious reason" affirmative action programs had failed was that they "required the recruiting of inadequately prepared candidates."