(a.) Expressing admiration; as, an admiring glance.
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."
Enviable
Definition:
(a.) Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
Example Sentences:
(1) These findings highlight limitations of the data supplied and suggest that the usefulness of this enviable and unique data source could be enhanced if the medical profession took greater care in clearly stating an International Classification of Diseases diagnosis in a patient's hospital record.
(2) It will, he believes, be impossible to find a candidate who is both qualified and willing to take on the best-paid, least-enviable job in Whitehall.
(3) The Beastie Boys alienated their frat-boy fan base with the radical boho stylings of 1989's Paul's Boutique but bought themselves enviable credibility and long-term success in the process.
(4) Former FA technical director Wilkinson has a long-standing interest in youth development and coaching, while Gradi remains director of football and director of the academy at Crewe Alexandra, where he has a long and enviable record of developing talent.
(5) Twelve days on, however, he claimed the team had moved on, has an enviable array of attacking options available and a camaraderie epitomised by Falcao’s and Perea’s decision to accompany the squad in Brazil.
(6) Löw has an enviable squad to choose players from, although he does not have a natural striker to call upon.
(7) During the past decade, Enders has built up an enviable reputation for outspoken and contrarian analysis of the prospects for technology, telecoms and media across Europe.
(8) It was the end of the last of a string of enviable careers.
(9) Menzel, who brings an anxious intensity to a featherweight part, has an enviable fan base among young female audiences.
(10) Lawson insisted her lifestyle was "normal" and that while the enviable kitchen on her TV show was not her own, those were definitely her real children darting in and out of the room, scoffing down ricotta cakes with grilled radicchio baked by their picture-perfect mother.
(11) Burning with energy, blessed with an enviably able new leader, the SNP feels like the party of most Labour activists’ secret dreams.
(12) Her face, under a drift of honeyed hair, has a bright, open glow to it; the smile that beams out of her campaign literature is enviably natural.
(13) Caribou – Our Love Canadian producer Dan Snaith has cut an enviably idiosyncratic path through dance music in recent years, both as Caribou and in his more dancefloor-friendly guise Daphni.
(14) He had enviably thick hair and, as he opened the door to let me in, I noticed an orange kitten positioned on the floor beside a Dalmatian puppy.
(15) Because womenswear can be fabulous, gorgeous, weird, ridiculous, breathtaking, game-changing, enviable, exciting, desirable, wonderful.
(16) If the talks succeed, Wilders will be in the enviable position of wielding power while abjuring responsibility.
(17) Eton College , where David Cameron and several others in his government were schooled, is not shy of broadcasting the enviably superb facilities it provides for its 1,300 boys, in return for £34,434 a year if parents are paying full fees.
(18) Why,” the anthropologist asked a wise woman of the tribe, “why are all your songs so short?” And the wise woman replied: “Our songs are all so short because we know so much.” In other words, the experience of living as a single people in a single place, where each new generation follows the same old paths – such an experience produced a wonderful, enviable confidence about the reliability and the knowability of the world.
(19) Knitting and sewing take place at its Los Angeles HQ, and it boasts an enviable benefits package for its workers (on the flipside, CEO Dov Charney has been dogged by accusations of alleged sexual harassment, which throws up its own ethical quandaries).
(20) Smith generated an enviable rapport with his audience through public appearances to promote the movies.