How To Use Admirable In A Sentence

There is a plethora of admirable precedents to this form of conservatism.
After this admirable book, the reader can return to listening to Strauss with added enjoyment.
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
There is something admirable about this - the absence of showmanship. Times, Sunday Times
A silent tongue and true heart are the most admirable things on earth.

In most cases trained officers give sympathetic, effective and admirable support. Times, Sunday Times
The majority of the film is set in Connecticut, and the production design is admirable, since it does not attempt to glorify the characters' lower class surroundings.
To Slegge's annoyance, he very soon found that if the prestige of the school was to be kept up Glyn and Singh must be in the eleven, for the former in a very short time was acknowledged to be the sharpest bowler in the school, while, from long practice together, Singh was an admirable wicket-keeper -- one who laughed at gloves and pads, was utterly without fear, and had, as Wrench said -- he being a great admirer of a game in which he never had a chance to play -- "a nye like a nork. Glyn Severn's Schooldays
But they are most admirable talaria, ankle-winglets enabling him to skim and scud, to direct his flight this way and that, to hover as well as to tower, even to run at need as well as to fly. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)
His behaviour under stress is admirable.
Sahre has catalogued and organized everything about this modest outcropping of homes with an admirable anal retentiveness. 2008 June : Scrubbles.net
His technical skill guarantees admirable clarity in the midst of complex counterpoints, and there is a delightful sense of well-being about the performances.
The administration has enunciated this position with admirable clarity in its new national security strategy.
Mr. Astor had held the wheel for five hours and, at my suggestion, he retired to the comfortable little cabin and lay down for fifteen minutes, leaving the aeroboat to soar in great slow circles under its admirable automatic controls over the main battle area. The Conquest of America A Romance of Disaster and Victory
She was a beautiful ship, in what we call "high kelter;" she seemed a living body, conscious of her own superior power over her opponents, whose shot she despised, as they fell thick and fast about her, while she deliberately took up an admirable position for battle. Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer
Milton's admirable economy in working this truth into his great poem (i. 378) affords a sublime exposition of the mind of the Fathers on the origin of mythologies.] [1774] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Once their lack of cities was interpreted as a deficiency; now it is seen as a way of living with the land and sea that was admirable custodianship of the environment.
It is an admirable method to avoid misunderstanding and mistranslation of the source text, which often provides insight into the source culture.
So far the Obama Administration, to our surprise and perhaps its own, has behaved with admirable sobriety despite the wailing from the political left. The Housing Bust Lobby
In the matches against Celtic these clubs played with an admirable fire and vigour.
Trying to influence people's behaviour towards the environment is admirable, not political," maintained everchanging. The readers' room: What you thought of G2 this week . . .
The next year he produced only a few medical trifles, but in 1557 he brought out two other scientific works which he characterizes as admirable -- one the _Ars parva curandi_, and the other a treatise _De Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study
Stack's taste and style were admirable yet always unpretentious, with no trace of affectation or competitiveness. Times, Sunday Times
And don't forget these jackets' admirable common denominator: supreme breathability.
The author has done an admirable job in compiling all this material.
Leapor's willingness to make jokes at her own expense is one of the admirable qualities of her work.
After being honourably acquitted, he relumed his feat upon the bench, and made the following fpeech; which, confidered in a general way, is admirable both with refpecft to matter and form, though the propriety of applying it to the particular occafion may be queftioned, as the petitioners were neither rioters nor inlurgents, nor men who had othTwile violated the public peace. The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies.
Most of the people who considered Palin admirable are not in touch with the reality that is Palin. Clinton edges out Palin in 'Most Admired' poll
In a wholly admirable way, he's saving face. Times, Sunday Times
If Longstreet's conduct was admirable, that of General Lee was perfectly subline. Three Months in the Southern States: April, June, 1863.
A fingerpost bore an admirable red warning sign, a new one on me, it read: ‘East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Criminal Damage Act 1971 - It is an offence to tamper with this sign… £1,000 fine… 6 months imprisonment…’
The junior leading men, admirable technicians to whom the notion of charisma is alien, don't appear destined for stardom.
But she was a severe censurer of pieces of a light or indecent turn, which had a tendency to corrupt the morals of youth, to convey polluted images, or to wound religion, whether in itself, or through the sides of its professors, and this, whoever were the authors, and how admirable soever the execution. Clarissa Harlowe
As the fisherman approaches, the falconer's spaniels look enquiringly at each other, and his whippet, all four paws at attention, stares respectfully at such an admirable salmon.
The script provides an admirable fulcrum for such musings with the title contraption -- run by a former Tibetan monk (Christopher Plummer) who cut a deal with the devil (Tom Waits), and which now reveals the dreams and temptations of those who venture into it. Mania News Feed
Gradually it dawned on Bob that this man was acting in the capacity of "barker" -- that with quite admirable perspicacity and accuracy, he was engaged in selecting from the countless throngs the few possible purchasers for Lucky Lands. The Rules of the Game
Your willingness to help others is admirable, but unless you're a registered charity you'd best contain your habit of taking in waifs and offering them a hot bath and food.
She clearly had to struggle to force herself on at times; and that, in my opinion, is admirable.
But while its scope is admirable, the play has an unappealing didactic tone. Times, Sunday Times
I thus associate the compact world of the admirable hill-top, the world of a predominant golden-brown, with a general invocation of sensibility and fancy, and think of myself as going forth into the lingering light of summer evenings all attuned to intensity of the idea of compositional beauty, or in other words, freely speaking, to the question of colour, to intensity of picture. Italian Hours
Our perseverance and pioneering spirit in blazing a trail nobody has ever trodden before is no doubt admirable.
In a wholly admirable way, he's saving face. Times, Sunday Times
This is an admirable compendium of the mathematical theories of the aerodynamics of aerofoils and wings.
the control of the mob by the police was admirable
He wrote one inimitably brilliant work, one wryly enjoyable one, some amusing pieces, and everything else is admirable but largely unreadable.
Over the years his admirable private-eye hero, Spenser, has revealed intriguing depths of sensitivity and literary appreciation.
While the performances on Grateful Dreams are admirable, the production sounds thin.
Its purpose was to instil the right ‘English values’ in colonised subjects and to project a vision of all that was finest and most admirable in English culture.
Does this readiness to invest in so-called safety devices represent sheer barking madness or a rather admirable brand of cockeyed optimism?
Getting inside the head of a footie boss is no mean feat and this is an admirable enough effort. The Sun
You are doing an admirable job of reporting this farcical event and I trust you will continue.
- Her "maid" is poor Kirkcaldy Helen, one of the notabilities, and also blessings here; who staid with us (thanks chiefly, almost wholly, to the admirable/management/) for nearly twelve years on a stretch. New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
One of the most admirable aspects of sailing and yacht racing is that, using only Nature's powers - the wind and the tide - a sailing craft leaves no flotsam and jetsom in its wake, only pristine waters.
The adroit prosecutor arranged his questions with admirable finesse.
Dialogue is well balanced with the music, which is rendered with admirable clarity.
A refusal to bend to underhand practices is admirable, but an inability to present a united front has been negligent. Times, Sunday Times
And some of them call the Rhine the 'Whine,'" I said, giving an admirable imitation of poor Hicks's drawling manner. The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh
Hence that admirable writer postulates some terrible original calamity; and thus the hateful doctrine, theologically called original sin, becomes to him almost as certain as that the world exists, and as the existence of God. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
So the provisioner went in followed by the portress and the Porter and went on till they reached a spacious ground floor hall,148 built with admirable skill and beautified with all manner colours and carvings; with upper balconies and groined arches and galleries and cupboards and recesses whose curtains hung before them. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In New York, it played at the Film Forum, an admirable NYC institution, but also a boxy venue with so little ambience that it may as well be the big screen TV in an eccentric friend's basement.
A silent tongue and true heart are the most admirable things on earth.
To the middle-class reader at the breakfast table or on his way to the office the letter was an admirable demonstration of the Christian concern of the Dublin employers and their solicitude for the less fortunate members of the community.
I got one and sometimes more than one, but my track record in the survival department is far less admirable than my performance as a jobholder. Nickel and Dimed
Dialogue is well balanced with the music, which is rendered with admirable clarity.
It was really an admirable little dinner; the claret was a famous one from the Anglemere cellars, and warmed to a nicety; the coffee was perfection; Sparling's ministrations left nothing to be desired; and yet Drake sank into his easy-chair after the meal with a sigh that was weary and wistful. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden
The test pilots found the double-slot flaps and quick-release engine cowlings most admirable but, oddly, armament was only briefly checked out and one of the things they did not like was the periscopic system for the twin turrets.
It's easy to expect that you "should" be able to deal with a particular situation, and of course, to a point, it's admirable to be flexible, to be low-maintenance. Gretchen Rubin: Treat Yourself Like A Toddler
Dr. Hoyle, the Director of the Museum, in his admirable description of the case in which these pretty little objects are shown, explains that they are arranged to show the evolution of the lovespoon from the normal spoon. Chats on Household Curios
The test pilots found the double-slot flaps and quick-release engine cowlings most admirable but, oddly, armament was only briefly checked out and one of the things they did not like was the periscopic system for the twin turrets.
I now think back on it and recognize it as one of the most admirable and self-sacrificing acts anyone has ever done for me. Seeing Red: To Write Is to Edit
donjon" of great antiquity, crenelated, with towers at each corner and the whole construction forming an admirable specimen of Hispano-Flemish architecture. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
Too many policies - admirable in themselves - receive far less credit than they deserve because of a timid reluctance to put them into their ideological context. Times, Sunday Times
She could be described as a refined, gentle lady, with admirable intellectual qualities.
Contemporary design, while admirable for its sense of cheerful modernity, needs to be careful to retain the essential element of warm domesticity.
That was nice because the decent and admirable Mr Calwell isn't usually accredited with having accomplished much of anything at all.
The endearing bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner.
She showed admirable self - control.
Eccles.tom. ix.p. 719,) Apres tout, ce narre de Sozomene est si honteux, pour tous ceux qu'il y mele, et surtout pour Theodose, qu'il vaut mieux travailler a le detruire, qu'a le soutenir; an admirable canon of criticism!] [Footnote 47: I can only be understood to mean, that such was his natural temper when it was not hardened, or inflamed, by religious zeal. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
Konigsberg, above a hundred years before, foretold would be an admirable year, and the German chronologers presaged would be the climacterical year of the world. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
What an admirable _salmi_ this is; undoubtedly the final end of the pheasant. The House of Souls
He sees it as an admirable quality, which it is to some degree. Times, Sunday Times
I find most romcoms intolerable, as they tend to be too heavy on the romance, which is a distinct turnoff, but this had an admirable lack of sentiment.
The people inhabiting the area are admirable because they know how to live in harmony with nature.
Such dedication is admirable, but the relentlessness of it, the unendingly hard slog - is that a good thing? Times, Sunday Times
On her death-bed the fortitude and benignity of this admirable woman did not desert her. Chapter 2
Everyone agreed that Bryan Singer had done an admirable job in bringing the Marvel comic to the screen.
I think police officers showed admirable restraint under the circumstances. Times, Sunday Times
Cosmographical Dissertations; containing the cosmographical mystery respecting the admirable proportion of the celestial orbits, and the genuine and real causes of the number, magnitude, and periods of the planets, demonstrated by the five regular geometrical solids. ' The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
All this is done with admirable clarity. The Times Literary Supplement
An admirable balance is struck between accessibility and scholarly detail.
_additament_ much more curious and admirable, and that is, with a couple of Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Three double-500 Expresses, constructed to stand a charge of six drachms," sweet weapons, and admirable for medium-sized game, such as eland or sable antelope, or for men, especially in an open country and with the semi-hollow bullet. King Solomon's Mines
The book is admirable in respect of style.
In an admirable show of gentlemanly sportsmanship the Tough Guy race also appears to be open to female competitors. Times, Sunday Times
The root is then reduced to a pulp, by rubbing it up and down a kind of rasp, made as follows: -- A piece of board, about 3 in. wide, and 12 ft. long, is procured, upon which some coarse twine, made of the fibres of the cocoa nut husk, is tightly and regularly wound, and which affords an admirable substitute for a coarse rasp. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832
The fact that this offender was to outward appearances, a devoted minister to his adult parishioners is admirable.
But admirable as this bonmot may be, the widespread use of the necessary techniques is causing some anxiety.
Humility is the finest of all virtues and is the source of all admirable character traits.
There was and is something admirable about it. Times, Sunday Times
We have spoken of the admirable way in which Mr. Cruikshank has depicted Irish character and Cockney character; English country character is quite as faithfully delineated in the person of the stout porteress and her children, and of the George Cruikshank
And even more interesting, brave and admirable Human Rights defensor, COFAVIC leader Liliana Ortega is actually on the dog house of chavismo as she has pursued human rights defense equally strongly under Chavez as she did before Chavez. 02/26/2006 - 03/05/2006
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
In surviving the cut, an otherwise anguished Woods displayed admirable qualities of courage and resolve.
Melvyn Tan strikes an admirable balance between the classical and romantic in the young composer's make-up.
The expanded orchestra, with added bass trumpet, contra bass trombone, special Wagner tubas and five harps which give this work its distinctive timbre, at turns scintillating and louring, played with admirable finesse.
However elements that might sound cloying or annoying in other hands - decorative kalimba, guest vocals, over-tasteful mixing - are held in check by the leader, whose own soloing has an admirable edge.
Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
They also acted their parts as classically as the admirable comedians interfered bumptiously with all the sobriety, and Phillip Addis must be commended for his singing as well.
The purpose was wholly admirable, except that it was barely engaging. Times, Sunday Times
Owen also provides plenty of poignancy, and does so with admirable unobtrusiveness.
She sensed something in my voice which betrayed great unplumbed deeps to my soul and an admirable weariness of the plastic norms of Society?
Both show an admirable lightness of touch. Times, Sunday Times
She explained with admirable restraint that it was annoying for her too because she didn't get paid for delays. Times, Sunday Times
Education is a admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.
Votre travail dans ma maison a toujours été admirable, rempli de zèle et de discrétion: vous avez bien le droit de vous amuser. Villette
Stack's taste and style were admirable yet always unpretentious, with no trace of affectation or competitiveness. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the admirable longevity of an established asparagus bed, the plants get off to a slow start.
What a piece of work is a man! they exclaim in rhapsody, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god, the beauty of the world! The Psychology of the Suffragette
He showed admirable restraint in not allowing this to show. The Sun
The diary makes a very interesting read, and the author has an admirable sense of humour.
That is an admirable statement of something I was groping blindly to try to express - thank you.
This celebration engages our mythopoetic imagination with those early swashbucklers who had some admirable traits. The Bushman Way of Tracking God
Upon my word, you really deserve -- Since Mr George Combe has clearly shown in his admirable work "On the Constitution of Man, and its adaptation to the world around him," that ignorance is a statutable crime before Nature, and punishable, and punished by the laws of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
The good effects of this law is admirable, insomuch that it has almost annihilated robbery: but when one has actually been committed, the energy and exertion of every individual is directed to discover the depredator, and they seldom fail to discover him. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
Little showed admirable poise trying to manage the unmanageable Red Sox bullpen.
Her determination and discipline were admirable.
Nothing is to be calld a fault in poetry, says Aristotle, but what is against the art; therefore a man may be an admirable poet without being an exact chronologer. Dedication
This was a well deserved victory but Tipperary borderers ensured that it was hard earned: both sides can take credit for an admirable display with honest endeavour, courage and some excellent football on show.
His team of experts wear their learning lightly and the information is presented with admirable clarity.
among her many admirable qualities are generosity and graciousness
Minor gripes aside, it is an admirable source of affordable, catchy modern design. Times, Sunday Times
Still, he is being tamed with elegance and admirable refinement. Times, Sunday Times
Thus that admirable saint and martyr, Bishop Hooper, when he came to die, one endeavored to dehort him from death by this: O sir, consider that life is sweet and death is bitter; presently he replied, Life to come is more sweet, and death to come is more bitter, and so went to the stake and patiently endured the fire. Sermons to the Natural Man
The English effort is less ambitious and has been made without any flourish of trumpets, but it is none the less real and admirable. Times, Sunday Times
The dancing, by a cast mainly clad in white shirts and trousers, is wholly admirable. Times, Sunday Times
The sixth is a sweet and Admirable tranquility, arising from the conquest of Fightings within, and frequent Prayer; and this, very, very few have Experience of. The spiritual guide which disentangles the soul / by Michael de Molinos ; edited with an introduction by Kathleen Lyttelton and a note by H. Scott Holland.
The motivation is admirable, invoking the territorial laws of the jungle. Times, Sunday Times
Of my numerous admirable brothers-in-law, I especially note the way two of them are handling the decades. Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone?
Your loyalty is admirable, however I new nothing about crossfit prior to Tyler's blog site and the numerous video bits he has shown in the past (search crossfit and you should get about 10 hits if you include this blog). Hi. I'm Megan Fox.
This amazing, confounding, admirable, amiable beauty, [4817] than which in all nature's treasure (saith Isocrates) there is nothing so majestical and sacred, nothing so divine, lovely, precious, Anatomy of Melancholy
This strategy, admirable in its refusal to pander to European popular tastes, will of course never, ever, give Turkey a winning song.
Of all the millennial projects, the extension of the London Underground, under the direction of Roland Paoletti, is one of the most admirable.
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
He repaired the omission last summer with admirable clarity and a soft-grained piano tone. Times, Sunday Times
My only complaint against this admirable book is that some important relevant topics are left out of the picture. The Times Literary Supplement
The vivid phrasemaking is liquid gold on the actors 'tongues and the literary craftsmanship is admirable, with details in the monologues overlapping at just the right moment to snap a bleak image indelibly into place. Rosemary Jenkinson's 'Stella Morgan' is good, but not great, at Keegan Theatre
Celibacy is something many have to face for various good, sometimes admirable, reasons.
In intensity of illumination admirable by day, any colorific turns are flat and trenchant , proper.
The explanation for this reticence is simple: self-criticism is an admirable trait in human beings but a potentially fatal one in politicians.
For observe, I have only dwelt upon the rudeness of Gothic, or any other kind of imperfectness, as admirable, where it was impossible to get design or thought without it. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
It was unprecedented, quixotic and admirable.
As the unprejudiced reader sees [Dr Gummere proceeds] this clear and admirable account confirms the doctrine of early days revived with fresh ethnological evidence in the writings of Dr Brown and of Adam Smith, that dance, poetry and song were once a single and inseparable function, and is in itself fatal to the idea of rhythmic prose, of solitary recitation, as foundations of poetry. IV. Children’s Reading (II)
The English effort is less ambitious and has been made without any flourish of trumpets, but it is none the less real and admirable. Times, Sunday Times
Still, he is being tamed with elegance and admirable refinement. Times, Sunday Times
Each of these objections, rebuttals, rejoinders, and surrejoinders is in itself admirable, and does infinite credit to the acuteness and candour of the author.
The Australian effect shows that getting people off their sofas involves far more than parading admirable role models. Times, Sunday Times
Goosen warmed up for next week's US Masters with an admirable defence of the title.
The initiatives taken by a number of villages that were badly hit by the tsunami is admirable.
Whatsoever makes distinguished order and admirableness in Nature makes the same in man; and never was there a fine deed that was not begot of the same impulse and ruled by the same laws to which solar systems are due. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator
Annie's self-imposed starvation and Kelly's gluttony are quests for independence and signs of an oddly admirable discipline as much as they are psychological problems.
To use a burning consciousness of one’s own misery, of the shackles that cut one’s own limbs, to quicken one’s sense of life in general, as Dickens did, to shape out of the murk which has surrounded one’s childhood some resplendent figure such as Micawber or Mrs. Gamp, is admirable: but to use personal suffering to rivet the reader’s sympathy and curiosity upon your private case is disastrous. The Common Reader, Second Series
To be sure, these admirable achievements did not always meet with disparagement: Victor Hugo had written in one of his famous poems: "Le geste auguste du semeur" (The sower's noble attitude). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
Allen's characters, both the admirable ones and the detestable ones, are intensely alive, and we know this by their distinctive voices.
After looking at all the ensembles and outfits and get-ups something just feels costumey about all of this, and a worry this complex, beautiful, smart, admirable, patriotic working mother and First Lady is getting objectified. Nancy Doyle Palmer: Michelle Obama: Everyday Icon... Yet...
But Harry's resistance to his chosen-ness is different, partly because unlike the Skywalker boys he has no choice about it --- resistance is futile in his case, which makes it more admirable but less heroic --- but mainly because in Rowling's conception being the Chosen One is not a heroic thing. Lance Mannion:
It was his misfortune that what were admirable qualities in a scholar and pastor were defects in a reluctant politician.
On his finger also hee put a Ring, wherein was enchased an admirable Carbuncle, which seemed like a flaming Torche, the value thereof not to bee estimated. The Decameron
Yet the one shall be dubbed a hero, the other called an admirable fellow, and be contended for by every client, and his double-tongued abilities shall carry him through all the high preferments of the law with reputation and applause. Clarissa Harlowe
An admirable talker, 'raconteur', and mimic, with a wit's relish for wit, the charm of his good temper was irresistible. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
She kissed the speaker then and there, wrote her letter hot-head, talked about it all that day, and worked herself into such a fever of curiosity that she cut short her villeggiatura by six weeks, so as the sooner to see the girl who could inspire her with such admirable ideas of her own magnanimity. Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
While I think this is good in the long run (T's anal-retentiveness is generally an admirable trait, but it does mean that it takes us ages to sign any contract for anything), it means that we won't make an offer for a few weeks, at least. Archive 2006-05-01
It is an admirable dryer, and has much the same effect as litharge in rendering oils siccative. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
Embracing the concept of body acceptance is an admirable trait found in the nudist lifestyle yet a trait not shared by Dallas society at-large.
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
The trained memory is an impressive and admirable resource, but I doubt its techniques could catch the uncodified, non-systematic subtleties of our unrhymed interchanges as they happen, unedited, moment by moment.
And it is, perhaps, the principal admirableness of the Gothic schools of architecture, that they thus receive the results of the labour of inferior minds; and out of fragments full of imperfection, and betraying that imperfection in every touch, indulgently raise up a stately and unaccusable whole. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
I think at least that we shall there recognize the author of those admirable verses which we meet with in his Eclogues: “Ut vidi, ut perii, ut me malus abstulit error!” — A Philosophical Dictionary
It is easy to see why this ban was passed and any muscular use of local autonomy is admirable in its way. Times, Sunday Times
His passion for work was insatiable, an admirable quality in a man.
The effect was hypnotic and her stamina admirable. Times, Sunday Times
Its unsparing account of an atrocious crime is offset by admirable dramatic restraint. Times, Sunday Times
An insubordinate cuss, he knows that insubordination becomes an admirable trait in an age when the torturer's first line of defense is that he was merely following orders.
Its focus has changed, that's all: it's no longer praise for conduct seen as admirable, but condemnation of antics seen as deplorable.
The motivation is admirable, invoking the territorial laws of the jungle. Times, Sunday Times
Normally that's an admirable quality. Times, Sunday Times
The purpose was wholly admirable, except that it was barely engaging. Times, Sunday Times
According to oyez.org, “His opinions, in the view of one commentator, were concise and admirable, placing Hughes in the pantheon of great justices.” The Volokh Conspiracy » The Short List
But sticking up for your principles is only admirable if your principles are admirable. Lance Mannion:
Where, among the wooden fowls and "impracticable" flagons, were to be seen very imposing pasties and flasks of champaigne, littered together in most admirable disorder. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete
Here they reproduced that result with great quality and admirable bravery.
The explanation for this reticence is simple: self-criticism is an admirable trait in human beings but a potentially fatal one in politicians.
Your employers are admirable and have improved your work skills. Times, Sunday Times
Were the youth of America, desperate for an honest set of heroes, supposed to find these borderline illiterate street skate rats admirable?
It is an admirable effort but it carries with it certain problems of style subsuming content.
Summers and Swan recount all this with admirable restraint. Times, Sunday Times
He puts his finger on the key problems besetting the modern nation-state, analyzes them with admirable clarity and then uses such analysis to reach conclusions that are the diametric opposite of what they should be.
His quixotic charges at youth unemployment, school meals and obesity have all been memorable and wholly admirable. Times, Sunday Times

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