But others will find them admirable for standing by their beliefs.
Perhaps that is why the audience at the 92nd Street Y expressed such unbounded love for Scout as embodied by Mary the one admirable white character still standing.
On press night, not only was the lead role played by David Tarkenter, standing in with admirable confidence for an unwell Paul Shelley, but also poor Trudie Goodwin, playing the psychologically tortured Kate Keller, fainted in the middle of the second act, and valiantly carried on after a 10-minute break.
Yet, despite the pounding that so many experienced, the outpouring of help I read about was admirable, illustrating the importance of standing up in the face of adversity and supporting one another.
The Knights, who played standing, accompanied her with an admirable buoyant energy.
In many ways this is admirable, if by no means new (one of my earliest memories is of standing in front of a class in the 1940s brandishing a ruler as Cassius in Julius Caesar).
Mr. Schumer's dedication to his fishing constituents is admirable; he has been known to speak eloquently in defense of fishermen while standing at a lectern in shirtsleeves holding up at arm's length a dead fluke.
There are a couple of admirable but unnecessary attempts to add a layer of art; the film starts with a storyteller standing high above the city while the camera swoops around her, for example.
What's admirable about Hunter is that, against his long-standing instinct for the quiet life, he is filling out an important part of gay history, when the studios controlled their charges and the celluloid closet was firmly locked shut.
And Standing Tall, though not a perfect film, was certainly an admirable choice on their part.
