Kubrick once remarked, "Arthur somehow manages to capture the hopeless but admirable human desire to know things that can really never be known".
Diana Athill Jenny Uglow's Nature's Engraver (Faber), a life of the wonderful wood engraver Thomas Bewick, is beautifully produced and gives a portrait of a man so lovable and admirable that getting to know him well is a life-enhancing experience.
"As they were planning the Harlem store, they made a big and very admirable effort to get to know the community on all levels," said Thelma Golden, director of the studio museum.
The South Koreans have exercised admirable restraint, but they need to know that the United States is with them.
Striving to be your best, is admirable, but you first have to know your starting point, and then your steps to growth, and that's a plan.
The Obama administration, reflecting an admirable commitment to transparency, wants everyone to know it will lie.
In a statement, Farrar called Weylandt "one of the kindest, funniest and most admirable people I have ever had the opportunity to know".
This is a health-minded smartwatch and, as such, it does a surprisingly admirable job of telling you what you need to know.
And, after getting to know him, I came to feel he was a brave and admirable man".
We don't need to know the number in order to pay homage to this untypical, admirable minority.
