This was, in the admirably concise wording of Wikipedia, an appeal "to racism against African-Americans". Nixon was hardly the first Republican to notice that Lyndon Johnson's civil rights legislation had alienated whites both in the South and elsewhere — Johnson himself had forecast that Southern whites would desert the Democratic Party.
Well, in the admirably succinct words of Chris Doyle of the Council for Arab-British Understanding: "I think we are seeing the beginning of the middle of the end of the middle... with the tipping point round the corner". On the other hand, it is in the nature of a tipping point that you don't realise you've got there until it's too late -- one minute you're upright, the next minute you've tipped.
Murray is, in other words, admirably detached from the world of Washington egos.
Early on, the cast enunciated the words admirably, but as the score grew more musically demanding in the second act, intelligibility was sacrificed.
As the man himself, admirably avoiding the words Tennent's, Extra, park and bench, put it: "As it gets dark at 3 o'clock in Scotland and there's nowhere to go and nothing to do, I started gambling.
Trump's reaction to Khashoggi's apparent assassination has been stomach-turning and disgraceful, but we have heard admirably honest and tough words from Republican senators such as Bob Corker of Tennessee, Marco Rubio of Florida and Lindsey O. Graham of South Carolina.
We have the words, for starters, admirably clear, albeit delivered in a rather arch, self-conscious manner that occasionally intrudes upon the shape of the line.
Debating an amendment from Oregon's Sen. Jeff Merkley, which would assist nursing mothers by providing them with adequate break times to nurse their child for up to a year after birth, two Republicans on the committee sought admirably to find the right words in registering their support.
During his admirably crisp and punchy speech, the word "stimulus" didn't cross his lips.
Shakespeare is able to conjure this implausible world, Coleridge observed, because "he adapts himself so admirably to the situation — in other words so puts himself into it".
An admirably precise dancer, she struggled with the words in what was meant to be a tour de force of fluency.
