The film generated considerable controversy on its release and opened to mixed and highly divergent reactions from critics.

"Catch-22" turns fifty; the writer Richard King examines why it provokes such divergent reactions.

The "Deadwood" advertisements produced strong but divergent reactions from riders.

For the rest of her singing career, Ms. Sills elicited divergent reactions from critics.

The Mercedes storyline was met with widely divergent reactions, though her musical numbers were generally given high marks.

Likewise, her political activism encounters divergent and often heated reactions.

The models provoked wildly divergent reactions, foretelling a divisive decision-making process for the years ahead.

The character's final appearance in the "A Night of Neglect" episode was met with divergent reactions.

The cafe's metamorphosis illustrates the shifting personality of Clinton as well as the divergent reactions to that change within the neighborhood.

His dismay at the divergent reactions is easily explained.