Fischer-Dieskau's English diction is admirable, except when he substitutes French "toast" for "coast".
He would have been admirable, except that he was an absolute egomaniac, a Beast — no recognition existed of the existence of anything beyond the range of his reach".
Very admirable: except in another part of the club, in the restaurant, the manager was selling it in bottles and making thousands of pounds.
A few years ago, Theresa May posed in a T-shirt that read, "This is what a feminist looks like", which is admirable, except it isn't what a feminist looks like.
Like every newspaper with which I have been associated, it regards "soft" news — cultural matters, feature stories, opinion columns, et al. — as something of a stepchild, but the paper's support of book-review coverage has been admirable, excepting the termination of Book World as a separate section, and there is no point in bemoaning that once again.
He was, Sir Arnold wrote in Matterhorn Centenary, "a friendless, and in many ways a pathetic man, and there was little, if anything, admirable about him excepting his mountaineering, but in spite of defects which I have not attempted to conceal, there was something great about the man.
This would have been a really admirable debut except for one particular clue that I thought was a bit insensitive given the economic downturn.
The painting was finished in most admirable style, except the back-ground, which Copley and I designed to represent a ship, bearing to America the intelligence of the acknowledgment of independence, with a sun just rising upon the stripes of the Union, streaming from her gaff...
In England, Henry Cecil Wyld produced his Universal Dictionary of the English Language (1932), admirable in every way except for its social class elitism.
Similarly, Christian-Philippe Quilici as Steva, had the goods vocally — his tenor has an admirable clarity — but, except in the carousing scene in the first act, he seemed uncomfortable in his own skin.
Which is an admirable role to fill, except sanctity and comedy make uneasy bedfellows.
