(n.) One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.
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."
Aficionado
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Alice Wade, a 27-year-old self-professed whiskey aficionado, says she started drinking whiskey in college.
(2) In 1972 the BBC produced his tale The Stone Tape, a technological ghost story still renowned among aficionados for the twist in its tail.
(3) ... George Clooney in a still from Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity Sci-fi aficionados will know there are two possible ways to "do" sound in space on the big screen.
(4) The quality was poor, yet it was close and compelling to aficionados.
(5) Hamilton can be enjoyed by both the musical theater geek and the rap aficionado, but it ultimately has more to offer the former.
(6) Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford in 1920 – a year that's doubly celebrated by crime aficionados, since it also heralded the dawning of the Golden Age of detective fiction , that interwar flowering of intricately plotted mysteries, in which the preternaturally shrewd detective is invited to pick his way through a liberal scattering of clues and red herrings, before confronting reader and murderer with his irrefutable conclusions in the final pages.
(7) Male sketchwriters and assorted Westminster aficionados either affected bemused indulgence on behalf of their slighted sisters or scented the whiff of political-correctness-gone-mad.
(8) Things can sometimes go wrong – a 1961 Marcels record that appears in episode two sent US vinyl aficionados into a flurry when they spotted that it was on modern reissue label Eric.
(9) Jones is an aficionado of musicals, and he recently helped bring The Play What I Wrote, a successful British production about Morecambe and Wise, from London to New York.
(10) If you're a scouse coffee aficionado, let us know which one he means.
(11) In my new school, a top school, full of maths and science aficionados, the girl with well-developed boobs was queen.
(12) The club would evolve over the next decade into incarnations as Brookhattan-Galicia, Galicia FC and Galicia-Honduras, but their brush with Gaetjens gives them cult status amongst US soccer history aficionados.
(13) This new Batman was considered by fans and comic-book aficionados to be the real deal and a long overdue riposte to the infamously camp 1960s Batman TV series, starring a paunchy Adam West as the caped crusader.
(14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
(15) Ever since he bought out his contract from Bob Arum for the princely sum of $750,000 in 2007, he’s made all the right moves to become the highest earning athlete on the planet, no less than a miracle given his risk-averse, defensive style that appeals to a subset of aficionados but not a broader public that’s always preferred slugging to boxing.
(16) The first Jesuit pope turns out to be a voracious cultural aficionado – "a Jesuit must be creative," Francis says at one point – but do his literary and artistic inclinations reveal anything about his religious orientation?
(17) Not so long ago, I believed that anything that helped broaden interest in current art was to be welcomed; that only an elitist snob would want art to be confined to a worthy group of aficionados.
(18) Clinton joined Twitter last week – her biography reads : "Wife, mom, lawyer, women & kids advocate, FLOAR, FLOTUS, US senator, SecState, author, dog owner, hair icon, pantsuit aficionado, glass ceiling cracker, TBD …"
(19) As Bond aficionados will be well aware, White’s job is to turn up every now and then to offer up cackling portents of impending doom regarding terrifying nefarious organisations that 007 and his pals appear to know nothing about.
(20) I've got a recorder, and I talk to myself" – he puts on a voice like a wine aficionado – "'Hmm, very rubbery.