The book received mainstream reviews which were either scathingly dismissive, like Wilmers, or sympathetic. Tietjens has a brilliant mind, and speaks it scathingly and heedlessly. Yardley is known simultaneously as a scathingly frank critic and a starmaker. Other Royal Navy officers scathingly criticised Rodney for his actions. The "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" published a scathingly negative review by Dietmar Dath. Wright scathingly condemned the leadership of British intelligence throughout nearly the whole Cold War period. He also scathingly claimed that Knorozov overwhelmingly misidentified Landa's hieroglyphs, adding to confusion. Burke scathingly compared Shelburne to his predecessor Rockingham. Michael Hofmann scathingly attacks Zweig's work. Manetho, an Egyptian priest and historian of that era, wrote scathingly of the Jews. Not surprisingly, Juliana refuses him once again, and just as scathingly as before. Tang was unrestrained in speaking, at times scathingly, in opposition to the Hong Kong Government. When interviewed Hal Roach spoke scathingly about the film and Laurel's behavior during the production. World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee "scathingly" attacked the SOPA and PIPA legislation. Other responses to the finale were scathingly negative.