Sentence examples similar to Waning admiration from inspiring English sources
This is, as the Cambridge historian John Dunn puts it in the dyspeptic but accurate conclusion to his 2005 history of democracy, "a world in which faith, deference and even loyalty have largely passed away, and the keenest of personal admiration seldom lasts for long" – a wan description of what the modern democratic spirit has wrought.
It is a hard book to put down, perhaps because it has a certain uneasy moral short-circuiting of its own: again, there are no references, so fact and fiction are allowed to trade uniform and mufti; and Carrère's pumped-up admiration of Limonov's often cruel escapades seems, at times, like the wan intellectual's envy of bloody warfare.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The final stanza of that one, pace Pegler, is worth plain, non-ratiocinative admiration, even in mimicry: Oh, say, when in the bosky swale The kine are lowing, wan and pale, My love sings as the nightingale, For you are ever near.
The final stanza of that one, pace Pegler, is worth plain, non-ratiocinative admiration, even in mimicry: Oh, say, when in the bosky swale The kine are lowing, wan and pale, My love sings as the nightingale, For you are ever near.
Her admiration is unmistakable.
Political admiration –why?
Has admiration for Clarence Darrow.
