There is something admirable about compassion, but Bowden has also used his Hee Haw charms and forgiving ways as a recruiting tool at Florida State, able to woo blue-chip talent into the program's protective care.
Re Barbara Garson's essay Close-Up Death Oughttoto Change a City" (Sept . 16: The content and emotional tone fell far short of the admirable expressions of compassion for the victims and their loved ones pouring out from people from all over the world.
Mariane Pearl ("Why Good Hearts Must Go Public," Op-Ed, April 19) writes with an admirable sense of compassion and understanding for the Pakistani people, despite the tragedy that she has faced.
Her compassion is admirable, glorious even, but also inaccurate.
Ms. Pezanoski can only offer a gloss on this world of pain, but she does so with compassion and admirable patience.
Nineteen books into his career, he seems determined to keep witnessing an array of human sorrows with compassion and an admirable steadiness.
And although he usually discusses (virtuous) motives rather than virtues, it is clear that his motives are not transitory inner states but admirable states of character, such as compassion, benevolence and caring.
But Susan Cooper, for all her troubles, is admirable from start to finish — sad but sympathetic, evoking compassion but no fear, tenderness but no resistance.
And admirable too was his courage to express indignation and compassion within the same breath, while his eyes, full of dagger-sharp perception and canine-soft intelligence, forgave us all.
For another, the play exhibits an admirable complexity in its attitude toward its characters; Hankin has compassion for the people he makes fun of and isn't fearful of rendering his most sympathetic characters foolish or unhappy.
