How To Use Mired In A Sentence
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Hencastle (the pencilling has been a good deal admired in my time, though I say it that shouldn't), and the Red-haired Gentleman noticed it in a moment.
Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
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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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This was their fourth defeat in a row and leaves them mired in the bottom three.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Their steadfast love in the face of horror can only be admired.
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These are troubling times we are in mired in, for the Lord is witness to the crimes of his children and has predestined us to suffer for our sins.
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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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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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He is often admired for his tasteful shirts, cool strides and groovy haircuts.
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I admired your conduct.
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In them are the bones of hundreds of dinosaurs, including skeletons of giant brontosaurs which were mired in soft mud.
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they admired his scrupulous professional integrity
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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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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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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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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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LaBarbera made 25 saves for the Kings, who have lost four of six and remain mired at the bottom of the Western Conference standings.
USATODAY.com
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The girl admired her mother's long white hair, and soft, milky skin.
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But she clearly still likes to be admired.
The Sun
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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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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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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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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 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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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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If more than one person seemed to have a claim on a piece of land, it quickly got mired in the courts.
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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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The victor will inherit a country still mired in war and soon to be without the assistance of foreign combat troops.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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But she clearly still likes to be admired.
The Sun
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The victor will inherit a country still mired in war and soon to be without the assistance of foreign combat troops.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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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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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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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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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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The big question is whether we will seize that opportunity or again let the transport debate get mired in political infighting and obfuscation.
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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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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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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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She enjoyed the camaraderie of the theatre where she was admired and much loved.
Times, Sunday Times
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The most admired vocations are manual workers such as cook or driver.
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I'd always admired the way jewelers could place stones and create settings.
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Enter Magee Mor Matthew, a rugged rough rugheaded kern, in strossers with a buttoned codpiece, his nether stocks bemired with clauber of ten forests, a wand of wilding in his hand.
Ulysses
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he admired the ampleness of its proportions
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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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Close up, Carlile noticed the dark scummy shoreline and two car tires mired in the mud.
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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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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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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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Catherine of Siena enshrined in the artistic golden sarcophagus which has been admired by succeeding generations of her clients.
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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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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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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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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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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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Changes such as these have mired the film in controversy even before it has opened in the UK.
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She came from the Trojan area known as Cilicia in Thebes, and her father was the local king, Eetion, admired by most, respected by all.
Ilium
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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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Reinhold did not accept the heliocentric theory, but he admired the elimination of the equant.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Thomas already was widely admired for his combination of power and pitch selection.
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The bright lights, the key to a future that isn't mired in the past.
CHAMELEON
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To understand ground rents and land prices is to understand cities; not to understand is to remain mired forever in confusion and fallacy, to be gulled and misled and bamboozled, which is, indeed and alas, the common lot of mankind.
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Recent scholarship has hardly begun to gauge the strands of influence flowing out of the studios of western artists in what were then called the “presidencies” of Bengal, Behar, and Oudh — and thence to the workshops of indigenous Indian court and other local painters who evidently admired, or at least for whatever reasonsoughtto emulate them.
Francesco Renaldi in Dacca
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He had a face not unlike the oak trees whose wood he admired, which is to say craggy, and a disposition to match.
Outfoxed Diary Entry
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She sat with his head cradled in her lap and admired the perfect features of her beloved.
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From what I learned from my elders he was very much admired and respected by all who knew him.
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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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Next, they admired the clothes in the window of Madame Irene's and Adele got the chance to tut-tut about the price of things.
JUST BETWEEN US
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On a few occasions I was present when friends gathered at his flat, discussing literature, the politics that mired Hungary in the war and the postwar hopes of those who were against the prevailing order.
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They made a fine impression upon all who visited them and were greatly admired.
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Equally, the most brutal and aggressive member of staff is often most admired by the inmates as well as being most deeply hated.
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Clinton is smart, well-spoken, is not a quitter, knows the issues, all in all someone to be admired.
Clinton edges out Palin in 'Most Admired' poll
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In Brazil I have often admired the contrast of varied beauty in the banana, palm, and orange tree; here we have in addition the breadfruit tree, conspicuous from its large, glossy, and deeply digitated leaf.
The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In
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He also would have admired Swihart's recent paintings: callipygian female nudes, with no traces of visible brushwork.
John Seed: Jon Swihart: Jean-Leon Gerome Is His Master
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People admired her for her beauty and intelligence.
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Although it has a superficial sheen, the film is mired in structural errors, weak plot contrivances and flimsy characterisation.
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Brownlee revealed his lack of foresight by oggling some L-bent HDMI cables, and admired a Portal-style oviposited recycling egg.
Boing Boing
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This mythic quality is what he admired in the work, and yet his literal-minded insistence on shining a spotlight into every crevice makes the whole thing seem completely banal.
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The catwalks thronged with beautifully crafted, richly textured clothes that begged to be stroked, touched and admired.
Times, Sunday Times
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He obviously admired Sosa's rock-ribbed stamina: Sosa is a very good fighter as he showed against several players.
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Most were Sikhs, Rajputs or Gurkhas, people whom the British classed as ‘martial races’ and they were much admired for their bearing, courage and steadfastness.
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In Yendi, there is an attractive romance subplot between the assassin crimelord narrator and the woman who kills him before he gets "revivified", but the core story is mired in complex dynastic politics which were never explained to the point where I could actually care about them.
Well, Ken MacLeod agrees with me rather than with Jonathan Swift
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She had a great belief in her daughter and admired her cleverness, and she was always ready to be ruled by her; it was like being "bossed" by the man she had lost.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
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She is a poet who is admired by other poets but not well-known to the general public.
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(Gibson's Neuromancer, while widely admired, is seldom emulated; Hardwired, mostly written before Neuromancer was published, seems to have defined the form.)
Archive 2010-05-01
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Some agelong string had been pulled within her, or she was infected by the emotion of one whom she had always admired and loved, and whom she had hardly ever seen stirred to eloquence.
Flowering Wilderness
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Mired in allegations of financial irregularity during his time in government, which he has rejected as a Labour smear, he is one of the least favoured in the party membership, where he is regarded as, at best, hypocritical and two-faced.
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I also admired the way he could peel an apple with the skin in one piece, coiled like a spring.
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No female star has had her look so admired - and copied - as the original blonde bombshell.
The Sun
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He admired the truthfulness of landscapes painted by an unschooled artist, who became his first teacher.
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Produced throughout Europe, nautilus cups were an extremely desirable blend of superb craftsmanship in combination with one of nature's most admired creations.
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A third doc that I admired is Hot House, Shimon Dotan's Israeli feature about prisons for Palestinian political detainees in Israel.
GreenCine Daily: Park City Dispatch. 11.
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Genna laughed, then admired the new carpet, telling Patsy, “This beigy color is very nice.”
Voices Carry
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But with Everton struggling to sell and Liverpool mired in debt at the moment, a groundshare could be a smart step in the right direction.
Soccer Blogs - latest posts
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Yet both players are admired across the troubled country, their fan base extending beyond ethnic lines.
Times, Sunday Times
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But from the outset this drive has been mired in controversy.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is admired for the elegance of his writing.
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-- "His aim," said Brutus, "was to be admired as an _Attic_ Orator: and to this we must attribute that accurate exility of style, which he constantly affected.
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker.
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He was rather aloof - and one admired him for it.
Times, Sunday Times
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But you'll find yourself admired, too, if you wear one while in your sweats and sneaks while out running errands.
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We naturally turn to the Bible for guidance and find ourselves mired in interpretive quicksand.
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Linda also admired the white rambling roses round a swimming pool while the couple were on holiday: there is now a bank up by the immaculate croquet lawn planted with 12,000 of them.
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Morrow's new production of 'The Nutcracker' has been greatly admired.
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The flyover projects are stuck with no sign of a resolution of whatever conflicts they are mired in.
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What has the widely admired Basque artist done to deserve such treatment?
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He was admired for his intellect, humour and considerable moral courage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile British politics remained fiercely partisan, with the country mired in an economic quagmire.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lunacy must be a word that is common in her language and I admired her use of it, and love sounded like “loave.”
The Double Life is Twice as Good
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Online reading of magazines (as opposed to blogs) suffers in comparison from the lack of instant ability for the reader to go to the article or report being discussed -- I have lost track of the number of times I've had to find a site via Google, then get mired in some Internet distraction and lose the thread, or never return.
Snaring readers on the hop
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He will be admired as a plucky controversialist.
Times, Sunday Times
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Critics have argued that the money would be better spent on helping those mired in chronic poverty on the ground.
Times, Sunday Times
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Widely respected as one of the founding fathers of photojournalism and a pioneer in the art of photography, his pictures are admired for their spontaneity and mastery of form.
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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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But that gave them a reason to be respected and admired.
Times, Sunday Times
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We may have admired at times his boundless energy but it so often seemed misplaced and misused.
Times, Sunday Times
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And I think there's urgency because I think this group of the black poor, it's bad for all of us the longer they remain mired where they are right now.
'Disintegration' Of America's Black Neighborhoods
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He was admired by a generation of football people around the world.
The Sun
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We ate the fish with soy and wasabi and admired the beautiful scenery of Obama bay, the lush forested mountains shrouded in dawn mist giving a mysterious calm to the place.
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Will may have been the youngest on board the Louisa May, but every crewmember admired and respected him.
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Much admired for his skill at carpentry, Tade made horses and donkeys carts and put bands on the wheels of carts.
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Many of my friends disliked the film intensely - even if they had admired it on some nebulous level, they were antagonized and revolted, irritated and unappreciative.
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She admired him, in secret of course.
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With NASA mired in navel-gazing and bureaucracy, it makes sense to support private development of outer space.
» Another reason to alert D.D. Herriman heinleinblog
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Today the EU is satisfyingly mired in impasse following the Irish vote against the Lisbon treaty.
Archive 2008-08-24
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Instead, no level of traditional institutions of education teach such courses and instead remain mired in curriculums skewed towards theory and not applicability such as statistics, economics 101, marketing and finance.
Young Adults Need To Seek Wealth Literacy, Not Financial Literacy « Articles « Literacy News
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I admired your delicate handling of the situation.
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The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
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The grass, being sodden with rain, afforded the young gentleman a rather inhospitable couch; his clothes were considerably bemired; and his hat was rolling in the mud on the other side of the road.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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One entry examined Lord Byron, whose libertine life and poetic license Porter clearly admired.
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By all accounts, Vivi was the belle of every youthful ball and admired for her courage and spunk.
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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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Rollins is most admired for her poetry, but she also writes fiction.
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Moore was admired and envied by 40-year-old women around the world for capturing the heart of an energetic beau 15 years her junior.
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The children were perplexed by her unexpected good humor, but they admired her good-natured bravery in the face of personal tragedy.
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UPSIDE The views of the sea, best admired from the balcony and veranda.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. Seneca
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Everyone stopped and admired it when it was in full flow; it was hard not to.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jean Valjean, as we have just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so disfigured, so bemired, so bleeding that he would have been unrecognizable in full noonday.
Les Miserables
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Virtuoso trombonist he is not, though his efforts to expand the instrument's profile must be admired.
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One of the most admired castles, it is a symbol of the topmost defence creation by medieval man.
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How he must have admired the hero of the "Odyssey," who in one way or other accounted for all the wooers that "sorned" upon his house, and had a receipt for their bodies from the grave-digger of
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1
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Voice over Here it's a virtue to have no belief in what you say, bandying words is an admired skill.
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I delivered silver salt-cellars - present from West Heath school - very beautiful and much admired.
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Here, everyone is out for himself, the weak are at the mercy of the powerful, and the vast overwhelming majority is mired in a slave morality in which they accept the sugarcoated homilies of the powers to be.
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After having been admired and valued as if its leaves were all emeralds and its buds apples of gold, it was spurned and ridiculed and everywhere cut down as a cumberer of the ground.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
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Sometimes I talked to Tatum O'Neal, a redheaded actress I admired for her role as a precocious adolescent capable of falling in love with Richard Burton, who was old enough to be her grandfather.
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We will go in and look at it, anyway," said his wife; and he admired how, when she was once within, she began provisionally to settle the family in each of the several floors with the female instinct for domiciliation which never failed her.
Complete March Family Trilogy
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Much like President Bill Clinton took solace from the Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterms, so does Obama embark this week on a lengthy trip to Asia, where he will be able to put aside temporarily the political setback at home for a turn on the global stage, where he remains widely admired.
Around the world, concern over the global impact of U.S. elections
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They ordered gins, and sat on a wooden bench before a wooden table, while Karen admired the place.
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It was a passalong from a friend of a friend when it was admired in their gardens.
Greetings From Fairegarden-April Bloom Day 2010 « Fairegarden
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She was very well respected and admired by most people in this Country, Canada.
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Lewis was much admired for his work on medieval literature.
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The other women hated her for her momentary exaltation above them; only the children still admired her as one who had undoubtedly "canoodled" with a man "a-going to be hung" -- a daring flight beyond their wildest ambition.
Stories in Light and Shadow
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Obviously custom, the front seats consisted of black leather adorned with white piping; something to be admired, car-guy or not.
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I remembered that I had often heard sailors speak of a wonderful bird called the roc, and saw that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg.
The Elson Readers, Book 5
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The eyes had been shadowed and the lips painted, the corsages had been attached, the flowers admired and the chocolates eaten.
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They are dim with bloodlust, blind with hate and mired in contrariety.
How Do Y0u Solve A Problem Like Sharia
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The rain mired the cart and it couldn't be moved.
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It hearkens back to the days when it didn't seem to be such a waste of time to protest the general mess in which the world is mired.
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William Butler Yeats ranks among the most widely admired and intensively studied writers of the twentieth century.
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It is the golden era of Roman history, praised by Gibbon and admired by all historians, during which the eyes of contemporaries saw nothing but to panegyrize.
Ancient States and Empires
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What Sayre admired was not some vague nobility that she found among the London exiles, but their unshrinking and ongoing commitment to radical goals.
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The remarkable thing is that, for all its many faults, the garden is much admired.
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It doesn't bode well that so many people are still mired in simplistic views.
14 Important Science Questions
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He admired her willingness to buck the system .
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She was admired for that nobility of spirit, it seems.
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One year after the crash, the markets remain mired in a deep malaise.
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The sensuous frenzy of his juvenile poems is still remembered against him; it betrayed a lack of moral dignity, of what the Greek poets, whom he so much admired, meant by the word [Greek: aidos].
Studies in Literature and History
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She admired him, in secret of course.
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In desperation, she tried to force her unwilling feet to move, but it was as though she were mired in quicksand.
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The world was mired in economic slump, which brought with it mass unemployment and wage cuts.
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His performance symbolised the true bulldog, never-say-die spirit which is deservedly admired.
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I admired the peeling paint on the ceiling.
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Images of garden furniture we admired once last summer stalk us around the web.
Times, Sunday Times
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Will the aforementioned ex-Browns D-linemen pan out or stay mired in bust status?
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My style of rowing is very much admired now.
Three Men in a Boat
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Brady somehow has figured all of this out - how to be famous and chic and still be the most popular, admired guy in his locker room, loved by his head coach and owner, a winner whose insatiable drive to succeed remains unquenched.
