Sentence examples for admiration of him from inspiring English sources

That is how he functioned in our household (which isn't to deny his beauty as a singer, or the validity of my father's admiration of him).

She had an active friendship with Hitler, her goggling admiration of him weirdly reflecting the lethal hero-worship of an entire nation: yet to that extent Riefenstahl was a German entirely typical of her time.

I should add that he's a friend of mine, but that had nothing to do with my enjoyment of his book, or my admiration of him as the reader.

Stolypin was prime minister of Russia under the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and Mr Putin wants to revive public admiration of him after decades of Soviet disdain for anything related to Tsarist politics.

When we first meet him, he's trying to rape a half-naked Romanian woman on a World War I battlefield, which complicates our admiration of him, to say the least.

The 26-year-old has been demanding for a move away from Anfield in recent weeks, but made an astonishing U-turn after he claimed he wants to stay at the club due to the fans admiration of him – at least for now.

"We came into the Senate together, and I just have a lot of admiration for him," Coburn said of Obama.

He lived his life with dignity, grace, and a wonderfully positive attitude, all of which earned him the respect and admiration of those around him.

His intelligence, tact and leadership qualities won him the admiration of many who knew him, including Le Myre des Vilers, who referred to him as both an enemy and a friend.

Galeano's best entries reconcile opposites, like the one titled "The Left Is the University of the Right," which notes that Rupert Murdoch's youthful admiration of Karl Marx helped him master the "inner workings of capitalism".

Milton's treatment of women has not traditionally won him the admiration of feminists — Virginia Woolf called him "the first of the masculinists," thinking perhaps of the contrasting description of Adam and Eve: "For contemplation he and valour formed / For softness she and sweet attractive grace".