(v. t.) To regard with wonder or astonishment; to view with surprise; to marvel at.
(v. t.) To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape.
(v. i.) To wonder; to marvel; to be affected with surprise; -- sometimes with at.
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."
Desire
Definition:
(v. t.) To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.
(v. t.) To express a wish for; to entreat; to request.
(v. t.) To require; to demand; to claim.
(v. t.) To miss; to regret.
(v. t.) The natural longing that is excited by the enjoyment or the thought of any good, and impels to action or effort its continuance or possession; an eager wish to obtain or enjoy.
(v. t.) An expressed wish; a request; petition.
(v. t.) Anything which is desired; an object of longing.
(v. t.) Excessive or morbid longing; lust; appetite.
(v. t.) Grief; regret.
Example Sentences:
(1) I'm not sure Tolstoy ever worked out how he actually felt about love and desire, or how he should feel about it.
(2) Further improvement of results will be possible by early operation, a desirable objective.
(3) This has been accomplished by insertion of a desired gene into a pre-existing immortal cell or by immortalizing primary cells.
(4) The light intensity profile for any desired cell can be examined in "real time", even during acceleration of the rotor.
(5) Still, even as unknowable as this decision may be for him, as any decision is, really, he is far more qualified to understand his desires and goals that would inform that decision than anyone else is.
(6) It’s not just a matter of will or gumption or desire on my part.
(7) "The pattern of consumption is that among ebook readers there is a desire to pre-order, or get it quickly, so ebook sales are particularly high in the first few weeks," he said.
(8) Attention is drawn to the desirability of differentiating between supra- and sub-gingival calculus in the CPITN scoring system and to the excessive treatment requirements that arise from classifying everyone with calculus as requiring prophylaxis and scaling.
(9) Alternatively, the data presented herein strongly suggest that diets containing conventional quantities of fat, in which saturated fat is replaced by unsaturated fat and dietary cholesterol reduced, would result in the desired reductions to total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations without the adverse effects of increased postprandial glucose and insulin concentrations, increased fasting and postprandial total and very-low-density lipoprotein triglyceride concentrations, and decreased fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations.
(10) Combining drugs may only occasionally be advisable to supplement a desired effect or to attenuate an unwanted one.
(11) Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981.
(12) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
(13) The concept of increasing bone mass and decreasing expanded soft-tissue mass has application within the judgment of the surgeon coupled with the patient's desires.
(14) This new derivative could represent a desirable complementation to rhbFGF for the development of more stable pharmaceutical formulations in wound healing applications.
(15) These concepts of facial harmony and surgical alterations have been difficult to teach in a residency program, especially regarding preoperative evaluation and a clear idea of the desired surgical results.
(16) Subsequent efforts focused on achieving high levels of insecticidal activity while minimizing costs of synthesis and retaining desirable levels of selective toxicity.
(17) The reasons are often financial, but can also be a desire for a change of pace or new experiences.
(18) Noninvasive procedures (such as Holter monitoring or recording of late potentials) are desirable for screening purposes, whereas it would be acceptable to use more aggressive invasive techniques in certain subsets of patients.
(19) KAP studies have demonstrated differences in the family size desires of men and women and in the determinants of attitudes toward birth control.
(20) An accurate description of the coronary anatomy is desired before anatomic correction of d-transposition of the great arteries.