(n.) Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.
(n.) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise; a prodigy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hettinga can be admired, and his heart is in the right place.
(2) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
(3) But that promise was beginning to startle the markets, which admire Monti’s appetite for austerity and fear the free spending and anti-European views of some Italian politicians.
(4) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(5) I read somewhere that one of the actresses you admire is Charlize Theron and she's another great beauty who started out modelling but whose breakthrough role came when she uglied up [to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Monster ].
(6) Greatly admired Murdoch is certainly putting his money where his mouth is.
(7) Steve Bell on Jeremy Corbyn not singing the national anthem – cartoon Read more Admiral Lord West, former Labour security minister, said the decision not to sing the anthem was extraordinary.
(8) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(9) You had to admire the party’s commitment to its Alan Partridge roots.
(10) While Claude Moraes MEP's committee on surveillance is admirably pursuing this agenda, member states remain unresponsive.
(11) No wonder celebrities all take selfies of themselves all day long, admiring and capturing their specialness for themselves.
(12) This is a team who have found their feet after that winless group section, a side who have already seen off the much admired Croatia and who can ruffle the feathers of the hosts or the reigning world champions.
(13) But somewhere along the way, his passion for good, fresh food – admirable and infectious in every respect – appears to have transformed into evangelical life-coaching.
(14) Admirably, Clinton kept her cool throughout, particularly Trump when spoke over her to call her “such a nasty woman”.
(15) When he had those Aids I went to my synagogue and I prayed for him.” Sterling said he admired Johnson, 53, as a “good” man, then contradicted himself.
(16) But it's still a neat model to watch – and admire.
(17) Again, he took a coasting, if not moribund, council department and turned it into an innovative, widely admired and emulated approach to social work (known as the "Hackney model").
(18) She insists she has no regrets about dedicating herself to the man millions admired but few really got to know.
(19) "I'm not going to suddenly stop admiring his unique comic talent because I've switched teams," Allen told the Guardian.
(20) David Puttnam, president of the Film Distributors' Association, said in a statement: "The report's clear message that everyone should have the opportunity to engage with film, and that watching, exploring, understanding and creating film is important for young people and the audience as a whole, is as admirable as it is welcome."
Blandishment
Definition:
(n.) The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.
Example Sentences:
(1) 2.41pm BST A commenter takes issue with our characterization in the intro of Manning's Quantico confinement as being under "harsh conditions" : anairbagsavedmylife 21 August 2013 2:16pm his sentence would be shortened by 112 days as a blandishment for his illegal detention in solitary confinement and other harsh conditions at the Quantico brig in Virginia in 2010-11.
(2) Politicians' blandishments about a spell of CV-enhancing volunteering jar painfully.
(3) "It is absolutely crucial, in view of the expense run up in the search, that Mark resists every blandishment on the part of any individual newspaper to buy up his story.
(4) The idea that the NHS currently stands apart from all this – pure, unsullied, impervious to the evil blandishments of hard-headed business – the one institution that stands single-handedly between ourselves and our preventable deaths, is utterly fallacious.
(5) Now of course all kinds of blandishments are being offered to the survivors.
(6) The social sciences should resist such blandishments and, rather than act in complicity with biomedicine, be free to pursue a more critical role in exposing the theoretical and empirical inconsistencies in the biomedical model.
(7) But the mayor has resisted Cameron’s blandishments, giving the out camp a spectacular boost.
(8) His blandishments include the offer of troops to police a demilitarised zone.
(9) Is there any bribe or blandishment that the Tories will not use as the prospect of losing a quarter of their kingdom looms?
(10) These are the people who could eventually suffer and die from Cameron's blandishments to the dictators.
(11) That leaves the question: are these approaches and blandishments the tentative beginnings of a new pragmatism emerging in Obama's relations with business leaders?
(12) Listen to his blandishments during a media tour this week: "When you back up and look at Apple's effect on job creation in the United States, we estimate that we've created more than 600,000 jobs now," Cook told Brian Williams of NBC's Rock Center .
(13) It has fallen to Pius XII to denounce Communist ideology in such an implacable manner as to forfend a series of schisms on the part of Catholics tempted to yield to Communist blandishments.
(14) The form has developed - from the 18th-century English invention of child portraiture, through the mass-marketed blandishments of Kate Greenaway and Cicely Mary Barker, to cutesy cards and blushing bottom advertising.
(15) The king's speech was largely about the Saudis responding to the blandishments of the US, trying to make life a little tougher for Assad by swapping some unusually frank neighbourly criticism for a deafening regional silence.
(16) All of which explains why new parents are uniquely susceptible to the blandishments of companies looking to part them from their money.
(17) Another junta consideration is China's increasingly overbearing behaviour, which contrasts unfavourably with the attractive blandishments, real and potential, attendant on improved relations with India , Japan and others intent on curbing Beijing's ambitions.
(18) In addition, Judge Lind said his sentence would be shortened by 112 days as a blandishment for his illegal detention in solitary confinement and other harsh conditions at the Quantico brig in Virginia in 2010-11.
(19) The problem for BA is that, after months of this, passengers and agents are sceptical, and quite frankly bored, of its blandishments.
(20) There has been no "decisive blow" against the Taliban, contrary to Obama's Tuesday blandishment.