How To Use Approvingly In A Sentence
-
They cite approvingly the proliferation of anti-corporate lawsuits and pressure campaigns by community groups and trade unions.
-
The reason for our choosing Teheran as a vacation centre was that another couple of members of our group had gone there not long before and spoke of it approvingly; they had stayed a little longer than we and had climbed, or partially climbed, Mount Demavend that was about 19,000 feet high.
Coming of Age: 1939-1946
-
She clucked her tongue at Zane and shook her head disapprovingly.
My Fair Succubi
-
He raised his glass, looked at the clear, effervescent liquid with the light glinting invitingly through it, swirled it a little, inhaled approvingly, and took a cautious sip, but he didn't swallow immediately.
-
I am loath to quote The New Criterion approvingly, but I agree with Lewis (although I'd change his "immeasurably" to "somewhat"):
The State of Criticism
-
She was dressed in a modest suit, but looked approvingly at my dress.
-
Her mother, dressed in ski-pants, enters and clucks disapprovingly.
-
During the hectic review of endless shots of the uniformed generalissimos looking on approvingly in the stadium, he spotted a famous face, an honored guest of the murderous junta.
-
He commented approvingly on a British government dossier on the matter that is now widely discredited.
Times, Sunday Times
-
‘A broken door will be reported,’ he replied disapprovingly, ‘especially one that has the indentions of your fingers permanently embedded in it.’
-
As Palin looses off a few rounds, a US Army instructor can be heard telling her approvingly: "You're pretty much hitting it dead centre.
-
'Oh, I warrant, how he mammocked it!' declares a friend, and Volumnia nods approvingly: 'One on 's father's moods'.
Shakespeare
-
All trace of his nerviness of a moment before had vanished, He had himself well in hand, Mr. Campion noticed approvingly.
Flowers for the Judge
-
She admired my cheap but effective vegetable peeler, commenting approvingly, ‘very good, no waste,’ in her brisk, clipped tones.
-
In the mean time the eyes of her sister Grace Margaret had roamed disapprovingly over Genevieve Maud's white dress, the blue sash that begirded her middle, the rampant bow on her hair.
Many Kingdoms
-
When I suggested a drink, she coughed disapprovingly.
-
she nodded approvingly
-
If someone has their arms crossed and their lips are pursed disapprovingly, it's a fairly safe bet they are on the defensive.
-
Possibly the best word for it, and it's meant approvingly, is 'farrago.'
David Tereshchuk: Mixed-Media Extravaganza -- and a Global Message
-
He stroked and scratched them as they churred approvingly.
Beast Master's Circus
-
Eskimo, the Kutchin, the Iroquois, and North American Indians in general; while on the next pages he cites approvingly authors who fancied they had discovered sexual affection among tribes some of whom
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
-
If the thing was to be done at all," observes the Oldest Member, approvingly, "it was unquestionably a niblick shot.
What Links Wodehouse, Fleming and Updike?
-
The troublesome word is "unedited," and though Lipsky would use it approvingly to suggest a breadth of vision, the word also suggests a lack of proportion that has been the most consistent, lingering, and wrongheaded criticism of Wallace's work throughout his career.
David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model
-
We were greeted in the reception area by a bearded man who scanned us disapprovingly.
-
"Serious charges," the judge commented, then nodded to himself approvingly.
-
I noticed approvingly that he did not return to his game of solitaire until we were almost out of the building.
-
Ever had a carload of girls drive by when you’re jogging and scream at you approvingly? It makes you feel great doesn’t it?
-
The math teacher frowned disapprovingly at the child.
-
When he arrived in Silicon Valley in 2005, brought in from Ohio to lead Hewlett-Packard after the stormy tenure of former CEO and now US Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo
WN.com - Business News
-
sacker" - the word Sullivan used to describe her, approvingly, in her early days at Birmingham?
The Guardian World News
-
And Feste, echoing the criticism of these decisions, approvingly recalled the unshakeable instinct of many of the WWII generation to defend the incarceration of Japanese Americans:
IsThatLegal?
-
On a serious note, Insty approvingly linked to video of Specter being "jeered" a day or two ago: link.
At the Mauve Café.
-
he shook his head disapprovingly
-
In the final section of today's masterpiece on 'dirty shipping industry', he lays out approvingly what the dictatorial, self-important, unrepresentative 'greenie' lobby groups demand of shipping; Harrabin says that shipping industry is unreasonably doing what the greenies and and 'scientists' don't want, QED, shipping industry is bad.
OPEN THREAD
-
The Financial Times called the spindly and demonstrative 38-year-old one of the “Gurus of the Future,” and even conservatives like George Will have written of him approvingly.
As Markets Quake, Clinton And Obama Grab Econo-Gurus
-
The way to deal with him at such moments was to nod approvingly and pray such ideas would be forgotten.
-
The coroner, a thin, elderly, spectacled man, dressed entirely in black, peered disapprovingly at the crowd and wearily sighed as he took his place at the table.
-
Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo
WN.com - Business News
-
He looked disapprovingly at the row of empty wine bottles.
-
Mr. Olaster, a tall man with grizzled hair, looked over his glasses disapprovingly as she slipped into her seat near the door.
-
He commented approvingly on a British government dossier on the matter that is now widely discredited.
Times, Sunday Times
-
The closest thing Latinos have is El Guapo's arch enemy - Edward James Olmos - who, at worst, may simply shake his head disapprovingly from his Beverly Hills rumpus room and brandish a microwave chimichanga at the television screen at news of a proposed Congressional Bill aimed at mandating that landscapers work while wearing proof of citizenship like a Flava-Flav clock.
El Guapo: WANTED: Latino Al Sharpton
-
He looked disapprovingly at the row of empty wine bottles.
-
The good doctor coloured up with pleasure to hear his boy's name bellowed forth approvingly by a thousand excited lungs.
The Firm of Girdlestone
-
Carly Fiorina, he was approvingly described as "unpretentious" -- a button-down manager who prized efficiency over flair. mark hurd, mark hurd wife, mark hurd resigns, hpq, hp, hp ceo
WN.com - Business News
-
Prettybmay suggest a delicate feminine appearance and can be used disapprovingly of men.
-
Most nodded approvingly, for this region has a big place in the hearts of many Azeris.
-
I leaned my bike against a fire hydrant and Mr. Swede nodded at it approvingly.
THE BLACK BOOK: DIARY OF A TEENAGE STUD VOL. IV: FASTER, FASTER, FASTER
-
The way to deal with him at such moments was to nod approvingly and pray such ideas would be forgotten.
-
The pope's intentions in discussing "holy war" were presumably good -- he approvingly quoted an early Qu'ranic "surah" (chapter), which says "there is no compulsion in religion" -- and he was right to raise the issue of how to confront and combat the religious extremism that gives rise to terror and violence.
The Pope's 'Holy War'
-
A ring of admirers had already formed around their table, and Nyrouya thinned her lips disapprovingly at those bystanders.
-
They like to keep a low profile and keep things sensible,' he says approvingly.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Cora's pink eyes were roving over Dervek's bare chest approvingly.
-
He commented approvingly on a British government dossier on the matter that is now widely discredited.
Times, Sunday Times
-
Bwowff!" soothes her thickset confidante, jowls swinging approvingly at her choice of metaphor.
With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses
-
Up in the Visitors' Gallery, Cherie Blair - seemingly unaffected by having planted a kiss on Charles Clarke's grizzly chin in the Lobby on the way in - looked on approvingly.
-
The man, appropriately, shone his countenance approvingly upon her.
-
Noting that the pieces are the very essence of reductivism, he concludes approvingly, ‘It would be hard to do less.’
-
And the circle of old men champed their gums, and nodded approvingly, and coughed.
The Wit of Porportuk
-
“That was tactfully done,” said Aurelia approvingly, then her expression darkened and she shook her head.
CONSPIRATA
-
Ever had a carload of girls drive by when you're jogging and scream at you approvingly?
-
You refer to brown, blue and white asbestos, as well as talc, and refer approvingly of Christopher Booker�s assertion that white asbestos is �is to all intents and purposes indistinguishable from talc� because they are both hydrated magnesium silicates with very similar formulae.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
-
Putting aside the irony of his having to ballyhoo "microstyle" through the implementation of "Big Style," it must be said that Johnson does make myriad important declarations about the construction of thoughts so they're rhythmic, and metaphoric, are persuasive when appropriately detailed, are even poetic -- declarations at which Strunk and White would undoubtedly nod their heads approvingly and which certainly satisfy the revered journalist's ABC accuracy, brevity, clarity.
David Finkle: Easy Reader: Simon Garfield's Enthralling Just My Type, Christopher Johnson's Less Than Enthralling Microstyle
-
The musician smiled approvingly while the little girl was playing the piano.