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The next day DaCosta, 35, and Thompson, 42, are sitting in a pair of side-by-side armchairs in a hotel suite amid lights and cameras while on a break from a series of television interviews.

"It's very likely that there'll be those armchair critics out there that will criticise them and feel that they could have done a better job themselves from the comfort of their armchair," he said.

It’s not so much that the exhibition itself is negligible, but rather that the interface between an art museum’s basic stand-and-look imperative and television’s gentler armchair mode is awkward.

These commenters were denounced at the time by New Zealand's defence minister as "armchair admirals".

“I’ve seen no reason for the armchair quarterbacks to be criticizing his performance,” said the Texas Republican.