Sentence examples for admirable feeling from inspiring English sources

Director Saul Dibb handles the action with an admirable feeling for tension, never letting the social issues impede the dramatic power of the story.

The relationship is perched on the edge of eros, but the way the movie is set up, it can't fall off the perch into an actual love affair, and although Coppola's taste and her determination to keep the anecdote small and ambiguous in feeling are admirable, the movie could use something grander, fiercer — danger, perhaps.

They were full of vivid ideas and feelings including an admirable lack of sentimentality to their own work.

Living guilt-free, without bad juju or unspoken feelings and thoughts is an admirable goal for anyone.

Although his ambition is admirable, the literary complexity and the simplicity of feeling Martel is aiming for don't comfortably mesh.

It didn't get much acknowledgment, and I'm worried that his feelings were a… My parents, with admirable foresight, had their first child while they were on fellowships in the United States.

In the case of pleasure, there are other reasons for thinking that it is not worthy of admiration, namely, that pleasant experiences are not admirable like virtue and intellectual activity and that one is not considered admirable in respect of feeling pleasure, though one is in respect of behaving virtuously and in respect of intellectual activity (FE 271).

Even Stravinsky found the work "admirable," writing in a note to famed composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, "Without feeling close to Boulez's music, I frankly find it preferable to many things of his generation".

My feeling is that although The Birds on the Trees is admirable, it probably shouldn't win a fiction prize.

If such condescending sentiments leave a contemporary writer feeling sick at heart, Brontë thought the letter "kind and admirable; a little stringent, but it did me good".

But after his performance, Melody Quah played the whirling, breathless single-movement Third Sonata with a different feeling for piano sound and the Prokofiev style: she had admirable refinement and achieved power through crisp attack and clarity.