Sentence examples for admirable lack from inspiring English sources

But this admirable lack of rigidity can easily descend into moral contortion.

One of the aspects that sets Gerwig's best films apart is their admirable lack of fairytale endings.

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

After all, Madonna has demonstrated an admirable lack of vanity by not choosing to play Wallis Simpson herself.

Buttafuoco seems to be doing well these days — a new guy, two grown children, and a truly admirable lack of bitterness.

She gives us the details of her life with an admirable lack of vanity, even confessing at one point to having strangled a kitten.

The playing, though often admirable, lacked a degree of focus and energy.

If Sidney is thus admirable for lacking any weakness of will, it is easy to suppose that effort-driven reason is a mark of such weakness, and hence something to be avoided (or at best tolerated) until moral excellence is achieved.

But her singing, for all its admirable qualities, still lacked a certain fire that the role demands.

One of this fictional Gutenberg's few admirable qualities is his lack of pretension.

He has been coaching me on and off for the last seven years, and has shown admirable patience with my lack of that very same virtue.