Specializing in something called Avantjazz (a complex, open-ended and admirable notion), this weeklong festival always assembles a compelling lineup.
Yet if we are to avoid the London disease - the Economist last week pointed out that booming Edinburgh promises to become as dominant and thrombotic - it is an entirely admirable notion.
Dov will tell you that it matters to him that Americans can buy an affordable and high-quality T-shirt.... That's an admirable notion, but, of course, most of us don't really know what constitutes a high-quality T-shirt: we don't run our hands over a swatch of cotton and let the little fibres tickle our palm, or ruminate on the difference between side-seaming and tubularity.
This casting demonstrates Bush's admirable disregard for accepted notions of cool, but it's tough on anyone who grew up watching him daubing away on Rolf's Cartoon Club.
These days, he is Lord Freud (obviously), and has put the breadth of his learning at the disposal of the Tories – indeed, he currently functions as Duncan Smith's minister, and the pair seem ideally suited, apparently resistant to the notion that the admirable goal of simplifying a system is immensely nuanced and intractable task.
So there must be some deontic category which we can compose with "desire", "admire", and "detest" in order to yield notions like that of the desirable, the admirable, and the detestable, without fear of reasons of the wrong kind.
Thus, rather than treating admirable character traits as more basic than the notions of right and wrong conduct, Kant takes virtues to be explicable only in terms of a prior account of moral or dutiful behavior.
That certainly is an admirable sentiment, and I certainly find sympathetic the notion that Google should commit to buying green power.
But countless striking examples followed, contradicting the long prevailing notion that only male friendships were noteworthy, noble and admirable (as in the "bromance" model of Jesus and the Apostles), while women were seen as defined by ignoble rivalries and intrigues.
Mr. White's play is sturdily fashioned, and his desire to debunk the notion that post-traumatic stress disorder was born post-Vietnam is admirable.
Chaplin traces the way in which this tentative notion of racial inferiority hardened and expanded to include the Indians' once admirable mental and technical capacities.
