How To Use Admire In A Sentence
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I admire the inventiveness, and while not everything is a raging success, there's a lot to like.
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Some self-absorbed children play elaborate fantasy games by themselves, and one can admire their creativity and imagination.
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Lambert isn't against atonalism, and admires Berg a great deal, but he's against any sort of dogmatism, and the atonalists had become dogmatic even by then.
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He admired Machiavelli for recognizing that sometimes our ends are mutually exclusive and for facing that fact unblinkingly.
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During a secret speech in February 1956 (which was almost immediately leaked to the Western media) he condemned the policies of the hitherto much admired Stalin and accused him of hideous crimes.
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No doubt we can admire the architectonic structure of these systems aesthetically, as we would un chef-d'oeuvre de l'art.
METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION
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I admire his dedication to the job.
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Their steadfast love in the face of horror can only be admired.
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Dahl came to admire him, although he described him as “quite an erk,”** and was shocked to discover that he could barely draw.
Storyteller
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It is this later Holiday which most recognise and her admirers point to her last years as her most compelling.
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Britain has many admirers around the world, but who actually owns our green and pleasant land?
The Sun
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Everybody admires him for his fine sense of humour.
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Having done some cycling in England as a teenager, I have admired the amateur cyclists I've seen toiling up those climbs and can appreciate the difficulty of the last segment of stage eight.
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Her sisters had been praised and admired and stared at all their lives for their spellbinding, hypnotic electric-blue eyes.
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I admire at your fortune.
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The U.S. was so pre-eminent in military power as to be unchallengeable in any serious way, but it was also widely admired and emulated.
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He liked Renwick personally, admired him professionally, but there were limits to what could be done.
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‘You can only admire the sheer professionalism of our service, which is a great comfort when we are in these difficulties,’ he said.
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He is often admired for his tasteful shirts, cool strides and groovy haircuts.
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His supporters admire his decisiveness.
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Wendy couldn't help but admire the pluck and ingenuity these youngsters showed.
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I admire your fortitude, but there's a fine line between being a trouper and recklessness.
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You had to admire the slick presentation of last night's awards ceremony.
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Like me, he was a disillusioned cynic, enjoyer of beer and a great admirer of a pretty face.
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The small lake at the base of the fort is mirror-like, in which a diverse group of birds admire their reflections.
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How shall we ever admire our civic leaders if we cannot look up to them, to see a white silk glove raised in blessing, a ringed-hand greeting?
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It was only when confronted with the loathing so many on the left feel for him that I discovered how much there was to admire in the doughty old demagogue.
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Whatever you might think about the man, his morals, or his use of drugs, you have to admire his tenacity in the face of illness.
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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
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He tore a strip off a Marlboro packet, roached it and sat back to admire the craftsmanship.
A DARKENING STAIN
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Another storyteller in the SF and fantasy realm whom I really admire is Orson Scott Card -- both for the Ender and the Seventh Son series.
It Ain't the Meat
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To his admirers, and they are legion, the glabrous Ailes is something else entirely — a valiant freedom-fighter standing up to the perfidious liberal media elite.
Meet the fantastic Mr Fox
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I admired your conduct.
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they admired his scrupulous professional integrity
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It's a delightful piece of absurdist nonsense, a sitcom designed to offend highbrow admirers of minimalist dance.
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These normally nuanced characters briefly became vessels for issue-based polemic rather than wry, subtle dialogue - and even to unequivocal admirers, this is a serious wobble.
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They may not win admirers but it does earn grudging admiration and respect.
Times, Sunday Times
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Arab dreams: Qaddafi (left) spent his youth as a fervent admirer of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, the pan-Arab nationalist icon of the era.
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We all admire professionalism and dedication.
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I have known and admired him since the early 1970's when we were postdocs together at Cambridge University.
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Critics and fellow writers admired them, but grew increasingly weary with the deranged self-consciousness of it all.
Times, Sunday Times
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Émile Zola admired their fine clear skin, like that of girls of the north of France, he thought, in contrast to the peaches from the Midi which were yellow and sunburned like the girls of that region.
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Far better than those fusty old democracies, mutter the admirers.
Times, Sunday Times
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The prime example is the Dada movement, whose nihilistic work is now admired for qualities of imagination.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Some have suggested she was holding a spear and shield proudly aloft, others that the goddess of beauty held a mirror - to admire her own reflection.
Times, Sunday Times
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Satisfied, we stopped to take a breather and admire our hard determination, or lack thereof.
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Those who know that one meaning of sabot is “a wooden shoe” will probably admire desabotage, from Bill Parks, of Covington, Va.
Word Fugitives
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She stood back and admired her handiwork.
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I always admired that aspect along with the fact bodyboarding was pushing maneuvers far past what surfers dreamed of doing.
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For hundreds of years they have worked the dales, the vales, the moors and rest of Yorkshire's countryside and moulded it into the scenery we admire so much today.
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The Robin peered in with his sharp little eye, and really admired the Tortoise's ingenious labour very much.
Parables From Nature
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That said, he was also acutely aware of how much she admired a minister who stood up to her.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sa tinuoray lang naibog kaayo ko niining porma sa inyong balay (I really admire the design of your house), admits Mayor Edwin G. Reyes at the turnover of the housing units here Wednesday.
Undefined
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The metamorphous stage of turning an idea into something people can appreciate and admire is truly an art form.
Blog De Ganz | Archive | April
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The girl admired her mother's long white hair, and soft, milky skin.
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You can't help but admire the sheer chutzpah of the man.
Times, Sunday Times
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A beautiful display of craftwork by the ladies of Ballyconnell ICA was also there for all to view and admire.
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Few of the people we admire spent their lives toiling soundlessly as spokes in an all-consuming wheel.
Wale Oyejide: Were You Hoping for a Miracle?
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Need I say how much I admire your own work?
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I did admire this View at times, but it should be more than a skit show.
Times, Sunday Times
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But she clearly still likes to be admired.
The Sun
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A fool always finds a bigger fool to admire him.
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From the first moment we spoke I knew you were a girl with great sensibility, and I admire you very much.
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His skill at producing a sparkling lecture after a long and arduous journey was much admired.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is an essential purchase for any admirer of Barbirolli.
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There is much to admire about the modern Liverpool.
Times, Sunday Times
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But they look up and admire the architecture, the faded paint on the bricks promoting toys, candy and soda, the tin ceilings visible through the huge windows, and every last one of them is just tickled by it all.
BAR Approves Downtown Demolition at cvillenews.com
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Everybody admires your carpentry shop work.
Sociology
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Machiavelli admired Borgia for enforcing the summary punishment of evildoing without incurring the hatred of his subjects.
Matthew Yglesias » Luce & Machiavelli on Leadership
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While I admire and respect these Members for coming together and participating in a real dialogue about the future of climate change legislation, I hope that a revenue-neutral carbon tax (the solution the overwhelming majority of economists and scientists agree is best) is being considered.
The In's and Out's of the Upcoming Energy and Climate Bill and Why It's Stalled | Inhabitat
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I admire her determination to get it right.
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The pop star was followed by a train of admirers.
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It has more than once been remarked in England that the old-fashioned amateur -- patron and critic, _kenner_ -- is dying out, and that his modern substitute must not only choose, but experiment -- not only admire, but be admired.
Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878
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They admired the varied vistas of the narrow, crooked streets, and noticed how convenient it was to have shops and residences and even small factories mixed up together.
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Despite the differences between the aging president and the young church historian, Barnes grew to admire the old man.
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Jennifer Lopez, in a strapless dress and an upswept hairstyle, waved from a balcony to admirers on the floor of Union Station at the Latino Inaugural Gala on Sunday night.
Life of the Party: Latin Flair in Washington - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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Returning I crossed the top of the mountain and halted awhile to admire the glorious sunset afterglow.
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But her no-nonsense approach has won her scores of admirers.
Times, Sunday Times
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I admire his bee - like assiduity in his work.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The English recovered most of western Gascony, but in July 1453 a French army defeated Talbot at Castillon and Talbot himself, a paladin greatly admired by French and English alike, was killed.
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The tape recording purports to be of a conversation between the princess and a secret admirer.
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The vulgar always knew what General danced with the lovely Miss A., and how they looked, and what they said to each other; how many jewels Miss A. wore, and the material her dress was made of; they knew who polkaed with the accomplished Miss B., and how like a duchess she bore herself; they had the exact name of the colonel who dashed along so like a knight with the graceful and much-admired Mrs. D., whose husband was abroad serving his country; what gallant captain of dragoons (captains of infantry were looked upon as not what they might be) promenaded so imperiously with the vivacious Miss E.; and what distinguished foreigner sat all night in the corner holding a suspicious and very improper conversation with Miss
An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith
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So in the evening, after we had finished the flower planting in a new flower bed, we sat down on our porch to admire our garden.
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There's also a stunning communal sundeck from which to admire the city views.
Times, Sunday Times
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That makes this new release an exceptionally attractive one, and essential listening for this much-loved violinist's admirers.
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Brother Jonathan," then just published by Blackwood in three large volumes, was read to him every night for weeks, and greatly to his satisfaction, as I then understood; though it seems by what Dr. Bowring -- I beg his pardon, Sir John Bowring -- says on the subject, that the "white-haired sage" was wide enough awake, on the whole, to form a pretty fair estimate of its unnaturalness and extravagance: being himself a great admirer of Richardson's ten-volume stories, like
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865
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Just repeat it verbatim to young people and they will admire you.
Times, Sunday Times
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Women in general have learned to admire men's booties, but those who hang with gay men will step it up.
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It was certainly a warren to admire.
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Most people admire decisiveness and despise vacillation.
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Even a staunch admirer of Turner, the redoubtable art critic Brian Sewell wrote at the time the Tate was mounting its campaign to save The Blue Rigi painting from being sold abroad: This is just bloody silly.
A legacy Turner would have approved of | Charles Saatchi
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Wrangham -- a college acquaintance of mine, -- an admirer of me, and a pitier of my principles; -- one to George Augustus Pollen, Esq.; one to
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
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Independence, admired the Revolution, and then artfully proceeded to depicture the prosperity that Australia would be likely to enjoy, if separated from the mother country, and become a republic.
The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia
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I admire the President for always trying to include the Republicans within his agenda, even when they have pledged to resit and vote NO on all his proposals.
Obama invites senators from both parties to discuss vacancy
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What I admire most about Lee is his patience.
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The top lawn is dotted with decorative pavilions where they can eat supper and admire the view.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is easy to see -- and indeed to admire -- why Africans, snatched from their homeland, enchained in slavery and forced to become Christians, would take their newly imposed religion and turn it into a source of solace and strength.
Clay Farris Naff: White Or Black, The Church Has Failed African Americans
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What a grievous loss his death is to American culture and to those of us who knew him personally, admired, and loved him.
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Nevertheless, I admired Mandeville's skill for, as he questioned, I caught the unease of some of them.
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Like the first incarnation of the band, it will provide part of a foundation for new admirers and for old fans to return to the fold.
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I admire all my three sons-in-law highly, " said he. "Wickham, perhaps, is my favourite; but I think I shall like your husband quite as well as Jane's.
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Amongst other things, people admired in him his indifference and unconcern; or, to express it in Greek, his meteoria and ablepsia.
De vita Caesarum
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His last years, lived by invitation in cottages in Sussex and Kent, fed and wined by beneficent admirers, provided a sort of rural coda of tranquillity.
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A real trouper puts on the sort of show his admirers expect.
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Nurse Jamieson had got on a favourite topic, and would have expatiated long enough, for she was a professed admirer of masculine beauty, but there was something which displeased the boy in her last simile; so he cut the conversation short, by asking whether she knew exactly how much money his grandfather had left with Dr. Gray for his maintenance.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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They may not win admirers but it does earn grudging admiration and respect.
Times, Sunday Times
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But she clearly still likes to be admired.
The Sun
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But Kirsteen, quite unused to beautiful manufactured things, admired them all, and found a pleasure in heaping together and contrasting with each other the soft silken stuffs, many of them with a sheen of two blended colours called "shot" in those days.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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I cannot but admire, that any should go with their distempered friends and relations to the afflicted children, to know what their distempered friends ail.
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When we see the _helleborus foetidus_ and _helleborus niger_ blowing at Christmas, the _helleborus hyemalis_ in January, and the _helleborus viridis_ as soon as ever it emerges out of the ground, we do not wonder, because they are kindred plants that we expect should keep pace the one with the other; but other congenerous vegetables differ so widely in their time of flowering, that we cannot but admire.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2
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To really add to its worth just polish it lots and admire it.
The Sun
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There is much to admire about the modern Liverpool.
Times, Sunday Times
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To the women on Teesside he was a heart-throb, a pin-up, while the men of Middlesbrough admired him from the outset for his passion, the hunger with which he played, even his recklessness.
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Critics and fellow writers admired them, but grew increasingly weary with the deranged self-consciousness of it all.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some years ago, I was in Judge Gladys Kessler's courtroom and admired the crisp decisiveness of her judicial temperament.
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They remembered their Ruskinian youth, and the confidence with which they would once have condemned it; and they had a sense of recreance in now admiring it; but they certainly admired it, and it remained for them the supreme expression of that time-soul, mundane, courtly, aristocratic, flattering, which once influenced the art of the whole world, and which had here so curiously found its apotheosis in a city remote from its native place and under a rule sacerdotally vowed to austerity.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3
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I admire the strength of my kinswomen who stayed at home and who later on embraced arranged marriages.
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It was the comfiest suede couch with the best view of the river, so of course it belonged to the most admired couple in the school.
Pure Sin
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You have to admire their chutzpah.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was the custom in Europe for a great professor to be presented with a Festschrift filled with writings by his students and admirers.
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Here she was at thirty-eight, beautiful and admired; and all that she seemed to have got from her lovers were approaches and adieus.
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Everybody of us admired her slender figure.
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I really admire her as a person and as a writer; and I think she has been the foundational theorist for a lot of women who are writing and who are scholars today.
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It is hard not to admire Samaranch's staying power.
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Have you ever admired those pictures of trampers walking through beautiful forest, or standing on a mountain top gazing over valleys or glaciers, and wished it were you?
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On the one hand she is admired for her courage, political intelligence, and stoicism; on the other hand she is seen as a femme fatale, a seductress, and a symbol of death.
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Then there was the self-appointed critic who admires nothing, and will blow his nose in the middle of a cavatina at the
The Magic Skin
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Despite taking only one disciple, he had many admirers and touched many lives.
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I have, God be praised, learned to admire, and not envy every one that outgoes me: and this will, I hope, go a great way in making me easy and happy under the pressures of a very narrow fortune, and amidst the ruffles of an ill-natured world.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions
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They stopped at the top of the hill to admire the scenery.
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The policy of their chiefs has on this occasion been admired, and might surely be excused; but a pious baud is seldom produced by the cool conspiracy of many persons; and a voluntary impostor might depend on the support of the wise and the credulity of the people.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Joseph Haydn, sometime mentor and later friend and admirer, wrote, "Posterity will not see such a talent again in 100 years".
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He strongly admires him because he knows how tough it is to eke a living out of one of Australia's last frontiers.
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Yet he has become one of crime fiction's most admired and liked characters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Clinton is the symbolic remainderman of the age of inspiration: admired for his professional political skills, but hardly viewed as a visionary figure.
Forget The Angry Voter. The Hacks Are Back.
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He cast a furtive glance around the square and, seeing that his admirer had not yet gone away, bent over his boot again.
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One thing we may at least admire in the man, and that is, his undaunted courage; and I can’t help thinking, as I have said before, that there must be some good in him, seeing the way in which his family are faithful to him.
The Great Hoggarty Diamond
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I admired his fearlessness with Couples, marvelled at the word acrobatics in the Rabbit series, read of his psoriasis, childhood stammering and problems of self-image, counted the novels and short stories and wondered, 'How does he do it?'
Daily News & Analysis
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NOT A LOT OF SYMPATHY FOR UMPS: Speaking of the umpires, this columnist is an unabashed admirer of many of them.
Covering baseball for USATODAY.com.Torre's dilemma: Choosing No. 1 starter
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She enjoyed the camaraderie of the theatre where she was admired and much loved.
Times, Sunday Times
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The courage to believe is easy, with lots of respectable company, but I admire more the courage to doubt.
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But Clinton gained admirers in the old-mens 'club by working hard, forming cross-party allegiances, and most importantly, not stealing the spotlight from publicity hounds like her New York colleague, Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Al Franken's new act opens on a serious note but should it?
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God forgives the inattention at Mass of an old man when he sleeps; of a young man when he loves; and the wandering attention of an _old_ man blessed with a _young_ heart the Almighty will surely pardon, for He Himself must admire beauty, since He made it. '
A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg
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The most admired vocations are manual workers such as cook or driver.
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Her admirers later had a monument placed over her grave.
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On learning the truth, she consents to receive the visit of Lara, an admirer of hers, whom she loves; and, when the Bluebeard, Valdini, surprises his victim and proceeds to the immurement, his first wife slips in most conveniently and whisks him off, leaving Valentine free to marry
Balzac
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I'd always admired the way jewelers could place stones and create settings.
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He performed in local cafes and clubs and drew many admirers, and his dream finally came true after a label rep witnessed one of his performances.
NPR Topics: News
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So much so, that one client is installing art behind a glass partition so that he can admire his collection as he goes to park.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was only when the nails had been driven home and the hammerman had climbed down to admire his handiwork that the flaws in this novel form of punishment became evident.
River God
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It's no secret I am one of his biggest admirers.
The Sun
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We admire his working so hard.
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he admired the ampleness of its proportions
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The giggle that implies that at the sight of each other's curvacious, water-slick naked bodies his admirers forgot all about him and are now busy indulging in lesbian hijinks?
13th June '06
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On the water's edge just a few metres away an elegant white crane admires its reflection in the water.
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I admire him for his success in business.
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She was always surrounded by a circle of admirers.
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Not all of his admirers were fully aware of the satirical or dystopian aspects of his work, however.
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I admire the way she is able to shrug off unfair criticism.
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People remembering those they admired or loved looked so sad.
Times, Sunday Times
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What would all the writers I admired think if they knew one of their own was being untrue to himself?
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We visited the office of Dail Dixon, a brilliant local architect whose work we had admired.
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In a few moments, he shut the beam off, and admired his handiwork.
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His skill at producing a sparkling lecture after a long and arduous journey was much admired.
Times, Sunday Times
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So called man-made fish - dye injected Glassfish being a typical example Which fishkeeper do you most admire - and why?
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A man who admires one party whilst making money out of both.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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By the end of his life he was an international celebrity and was regarded by his admirers as a kind of art guru.
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A few folks in the class were indeed too sore to ride by the latter part of the clinic, and the rest of us choked down over-the-counter painkillers and secretly admired our own saddle-sore knees and thighs.
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Some of these myths they may have devised for themselves; others will have been constructed by friends and admirers.
Times, Sunday Times
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She soon won many admirers.
Times, Sunday Times
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My father has a streak of heroism in him that I admire, but that verges on foolhardiness.
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Looking down at her, I admire the black rosettes of her spots against the snow-white beauty of her fur.
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But he is also admired for his love of poetry and music.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the early Renaissance on, they had been admired and drawn by painters and sculptors and carefully described and cataloged by art enthusiasts and antiquarians.
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Jennifer Lopez, in a strapless dress and an upswept hairstyle, waved from a balcony to admirers on the floor of Union Station at the Latino Inaugural Gala on Sunday night.
Life of the Party: Latin Flair in Washington - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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From the time he left Oxford he was acclaimed and backed by a small minority of passionate admirers whom I have called his fuglemen.
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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Catherine of Siena enshrined in the artistic golden sarcophagus which has been admired by succeeding generations of her clients.
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Don't forget to admire the baby.
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And what sort of landowner would refuse to play host to a concours d' élégance at which owners of magnificent chariots - Lagondas, Delages, Rolls-Royces - could admire each other's turnout?
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All gaze, and all admire, and raife a (houting found 1
The Works of the English Poets
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In addition to great charm he was blessed with good looks and, consequently, had many female admirers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Visigothic and Vandal productions were for a certain time extolled, panegyrized, and admired in the journals, especially as they came out under the protection of a certain lady of distinction, who knew nothing at all about the subject.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Gifts were a Totoro tiepin I'd admired at the Ghibli Museum store, a pair of slippers, DVDs of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series and Young Indiana Jones, and the Settlers of Catan board game.
Happy Birthday to me
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At Milan, where at first he used to come to the cathedral to admire Ambrose's oratorical skill, he found himself not only impressed by the content of the discourses but also gripped by the psalm chants.
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What he admired in these poets was their inventive use of word and sound in every device of onomatopoeia, alliteration, pun and palindrome.
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Or you could simply admire the view of the desert.
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For hundreds of years they have worked the dales, the vales, the moors and rest of Yorkshire's countryside and moulded it into the scenery we admire so much today.
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Morrison admires the Church of England for its non-docrtinaire, tolerant position (or wooliness as it is often termed).
Religion
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Wormwood Scrubs is the last place Murphy's legion of admirers would have expected him to end up, as he took second place on Smartie in the Aintree Grand National of 2001.
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Better have been admired as a governess than shunned as a peeress, which is what she will be.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Her old adulator, also, vanished from public places, while her young admirer and his father hovered about in them as usual, but spiritless, comfortless, and as if in the same search as himself.
Camilla
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I admire her for her perseverance.
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Most folk will admire your determination to stand on your own two feet.
The Sun
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Yet I've always admired Doctor Who; not only for its values of intellect and empathy, but also for its often overlooked ability to explore deistic themes – both in the show and through the ardent devotion of fans.
Does Doctor Who feature a god for our times? | Stephen Kelly
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No doubt we can admire the architectonic structure of these systems aesthetically, as we would un chef-d'oeuvre de l'art.
METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION
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I could not but smile, at the same time that I was offended, to observe Sheridan in The Life of Swift [3], which he afterwards published, attempting, in the writhings of his resentment, to depreciate Johnson, by characterising him as 'A writer of gigantick fame in these days of little men; 'that very Johnson whom he once so highly admired and venerated.
Life Of Johnson
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I admired its moxie, its determination to be nothing more than a cheesy, exploitative, effects-driven popcorn movie.
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I admire the way they blur the line between biped and quadruped.
Times, Sunday Times
