Americans' admiration for self-made millionaires leads them to be suspicious of huge organisations.
"Our studies show that we have this admiration for self-sacrifice.
And the Mail did not, of course, point to another diary entry – helpfully supplied in today's Guardian by Ralph's biographer, Michael Newman – in which he showed his admiration for the self-confidence of the people of his adopted country: "I have never, never heard an English person doubt the English victory".
Watson expressed his admiration for Europe's self-appointed cheerleader, Poulter, who said on Wednesday that he wanted to "kill" his opponents.
One source who has known Barbour for many years but does not work for him speculated that the accomplished politician and power broker was likely upset about the conclusion he had reached regarding whether he should run, but expressed admiration for Barbour's self-discipline.
At home, the man on the couch, though filled with admiration for his other, better self, feels a twinge of jealousy, and even, strangely, something like fear.
Edward Bellamy's admiration for the discipline and self-sacrifice of the Civil War armies was reflected in his enormously popular utopian novel Looking Backward (1888).
But I always had a certain admiration for straight edgers, whose self-disciplined conviction in their beliefs at least had the inestimable appeal of being militant and extreme and somehow, at least according to my definition of the word, glamorous.
We don't mind if the sinner still betrays, as Yetnikoff does, a sneaking admiration for his old, more colorful self -- that can complicate and enrich a book -- but the misfeasances have to engage us, and we also have to believe that the jerk is a jerk no longer.
I yield to no one in my admiration for Britain's lack of self-esteem, but for a nation that lived through the expenses scandal to deem the tax affairs of those who tax them to be none of their beeswax would be an act of self-loathing too far even for me.
First, it validates the notion that, while views of US government policy ebb and flow, there is universal admiration for our commitment to civic engagement and self improvement.
