As an illustration of the powerful criticism Vendler's commentaries can provide, here is Sonnet 62 and one of her descriptive paragraphs on it.

This is a powerful criticism.

American policy at Guantánamo came under powerful criticism last fall from a remarkable source: Lord Steyn, a judge of Britain's highest court.

Catholic bishops, not the labor unions, provide the most powerful criticism of capitalist excess.

The result was described by one critic as "a powerful and cynical criticism of media news coverage."

Yet he also possesses a powerful, unpredictable criticism.

A third, and perhaps more powerful, criticism of the book will most likely involve its stress on genes, and the short shrift Murray gives to environmental factors.

His shot, in Ghana, of an English trader being carried ashore by four black porters is a powerful - and amusing -criticism of colonialism.

The most powerful criticism following 9/11 was that we didn't read the handwriting on the wall.

From 1818 to 1821 he edited Die Wage, a paper distinguished by its lively political articles and its powerful but sarcastic theatrical criticisms.