At mid-career, with Huckleberry Finn, he combined rich humor, sturdy narrative and social criticism.

Other commentators combine criticism of big government with criticism of "big business", "big labor", "big oil", "big tobacco" and "big pharma".

She would combine autobiography, ethnography, sociology, economic history and literary criticism, and hope thereby to fuse her tastes into a whole.

But Mr. Gil also found in reggae, especially in Bob Marley's songs, a good medium for combining social criticism and religion in popular music.

For one thing it cleanses the mind and perhaps the soul to combine sorrow and criticism of Israel with recognition of historic reality.

The four-time platinum artist rose to underground popularity with his early works, which combined social criticism with musical and lyrical experimentation.

He combines fiction, autobiography, travel writing, cultural criticism, literary theory, and a kind of comic English whining.

He combined eroticism, social criticism, and avant-garde theater ideas, and he considered the body to be a repository for "stored memories", which could be metamorphosed into dance forms.

But honesty alone can help our work forward, so I will not shrink from combining criticism with this greeting to the new-born child.

In a radically revisionary book, Didion combines history and reportage, memoir and literary criticism, to reassess her home state, California.