A truly good work reveals by contrast the shallowness of everything around it.
Evidence
If there is a drawback, it is that the film exposes the crassness, pomposity and ineptitude of most of what is on the circuit. There may be some people who don’t like it; but they will not be the sort of people you would like to dine with. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 351
Categorization
- SEED: The standard Mantel sets for judging art — ‘people you would like to dine with’ — a compact rubric for writing criticism.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 351
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