Sentence examples for admirable past from inspiring English sources

It is this state-sanctioned sunniness from which the view of the present as a middle ground between an admirable past and a halcyon future springs.

He will take over the mantle of Central Europe's most recognisable president once the Czechs' ailing head of state, Vaclav Havel, retires in January.Mr Havel's admirable dissident past and literary distinction gave him special status in western capitals.

But while it lacks the fragility of 1984's "Some Great Reward" or the earned attitude of 1990's "Violator," it's unmistakably an attempt at revisiting the past, admirable either as an act of defiant stubbornness or tenacious commitment.

Her works reject the "admirable implements" forged by past realistic novelists such as Honoré de Balzac, particularly the use of biographical description to create full-bodied characters.

It was a pop-cultural representation of a sentiment whose classic formulation was delivered by Count Alexander von Benckendorff, the head of the secret police under Nicholas I: "Russia's past is admirable; her present is more than magnificent; as to her future, it is beyond the grasp of the most daring imagination".

The Kempinski chain has done an admirable job of evoking past grandeur while accentuating the area's natural beauty.

The desire to engage a young and distracted demographic with the storied past is an admirable thing.

Michelle's maternal grandmother, Rebecca Jumper, did an admirable job of keeping her past a secret, but that's probably because she didn't know much about it herself.

A more conventional, responsible, admirable president would have looked right past them, at comelier options galore.

The ingenious plot twists of The Hidden are satisfying to follow, and the book's constant sifting of the present through the past is done with admirable intelligence.

It is an admirable arrangement born of a reaction to past pension scandals like Maxwell.