Sentence examples for * approbation in from inspiring English sources

(The name is a pun on "def," a term of approbation in hip-hop, and "tone deaf").

In her introduction to the Penguin's 2004 edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Doris Lessing pokes gentle fun at the timidity of the sex scenes that caused such moral approbation in pre-1960s Britain.

Dozens of people who have known Bill Clinton over the years maintain that he is genuinely curious about nearly every individual he meets; clearly wants to be liked; and seeks approbation in virtually every encounter.

We cut our terms of approbation in half: "fabulous" was "Fab!"; "gorgeous" was "Gorge!"; "brilliant" was "Brill!" We emulated the d.j.s we heard on the radio and in clubs.

They were a product of an age, or rather several succeeding ages, when men weren't expected to do much at home except put their wages on the table, eat their tea and expire quietly by the fire or down the pub without asking for too much sex in between ("He never bothers her" being the greatest expression of approbation in a battleaxe's gift).

These states of approbation, in turn, elicit states of love and esteem for the person whose behavior of which he's aware.

Getting on with it is one of the strongest approbations in the Leigh lexicon.

It is sometimes the case that when someone's star has waned in their own country they travel abroad for approbation: Norman Wisdom in Albania or Jerry Lewis in France.

Typically, criminals aren't greeted with approbation but in this book you can't help supporting the quick-witted, dynamic aptitude of my favourite con artist, Mr Abagnale.

We find that there is heady mixture of religion and cultural approbation involved in being Muslim and gay, which may have driven Mateen to take extreme action.

But if happiness consists so centrally in the approbation of others, and in self-approbation, there can be no reasonable conflict between pursuing happiness and pursuing morality.