Sentence examples for admiration without from inspiring English sources

Ultimately, it is political union that undergirds social union, and social union that undergirds the mutual bonds of affection and admiration without which a country is nothing.

A headdress by the Japanese designer Maiko Takeda that looks like a dandelion made from porcupine quills, in the "ethereal" section of the exhibit (there are six other organizing adjectives: extravagant, intricate, transgressive, emergent, elemental, and transformative), is there to be gazed at; it inspires admiration without an aftertaste of covetousness.

The life-bruised elders can look at them, with their breezy and puppyish willingness to play the game for all it's worth, with admiration but without fear.

The reader leaves this account of "the ordinary lives of these extraordinary people" with respect and admiration, but without any desire to exchange the vicissitudes of contemporary family life for the pains and perils of the past.

He was a great admirer of Emily Dickinson's poetry, but even that admiration is not without its strain of condescension: in an interview with the collection's editor, Willis Barnstone, he describes her as "the most passionate of all women who have attempted writing".

Rice's admiration was not without its caveats.

And his talents are not without admiration among the lit set.

"I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves and capsula, without admiration".

Yet Sarkozy, she told me, not without admiration, also "understood better than anyone else what I had done".

Rough sex with Margaret would be directly rendered in key passages of "Guerrillas" and "A Bend in the River"; then Pat would listen to the write-up, flinch, leave the room, return, express admiration, make suggestions — without ever daring to "ask herself to what extent Vidia's writing is drawn from life, and specifically from his life with Margaret".

"He betrayed me for firm tits and a tight fit," he said, not without admiration.