Even Stravinsky found the work "admirable," writing in a note to famed composition teacher Nadia Boulanger, "Without feeling close to Boulez's music, I frankly find it preferable to many things of his generation".
When things go well, we are the beneficiaries of our mentors' best selves, not just their admirable writing but the prescient insights that divine talent in us before we know it's there ourselves.
Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, which nervily pitches the stars of 21 Jump Street and The 40-Year-Old Virgin four-square at the Oscar voters, features so much admirable acting, writing and film-making that I wonder why it left me so unmoved.
All the usual caveats: yes, there are admirable novels written according to such norms, and conversely there've always been writers playing with form, etcetera.
He is a hero with an "admirable record", write the editors of the Orlando Sentinel.
In The New York Times, Hall called Barrymore's performance "admirable" and wrote that "it is a pleasure to see [him] again in something in a lighter vein".
If Ms. Howe's play, directed by Pam MacKinnon and starring Lizbaeth Mackay as Roz, Juan Carlos Hernandez as the comic and touching Jesus and Laura Heisler as the addled Ophelia, is a highlight, the evening offers other admirable examples of writing, acting and staging.
There is certainly something admirable about metaphorically writing "looking for love" on your balls and then exposing them to a room full of people, even if you do need a novelty dating concept to do it.
But despite the inventive staging and all-out efforts of an admirable cast, Anthony Tommasini writes, "The Fly" is ponderous and enervating.
Schweid has already written admirable books on catfish farming in the Mississippi Delta and on Cajuns and their history with hot peppers, so he is in familiar territory here.
Over three serious hours it deals with the black American experience and in Hollywood, although it is impolite to say so, serious black films do not make money.Predictably, some critics have been left slightly cold by what Ms Winfrey has called her "Schindler's List"—"more admirable than involving", wrote one.
