1.   But her searing indictment of Victorian England, where life is cheap and morals at hand only when the wealthy deem them to be, is a sweeping read.

2.   Set in modern times, it is a searing indictment of a social system that treats people as subhuman merely because of their gender or caste.

3.   Bielinsky takes a well-worn genre and turns it into a searing indictment of the sinking morals and financial morass of modern-day Argentina.

4.   These snippets will suffice as a searing indictment of crass materialism.