French-English translations for esprit critique

• critical thinking
• criticism
  It is time to breathe some spirit of criticism into our institutions, contradiction being an engine of progress. Il est temps d’insuffler de l’esprit critique dans nos institutions: la contradiction est moteur de progrès.
  The politician received a lot of public criticism for his controversial stance on the issue.

Related words

• esprit
• esprits
• Esprit-Saint
• Saint-Esprit
• esprit-de-vin
• esprit-fort
• Grand-Saint-Esprit
• bel-esprit
• esprit de bois
• esprit de Noël