The phrase "admiring attention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the act of receiving or giving attention that is characterized by admiration or respect.
Example: "The artist's work drew admiring attention from critics and art enthusiasts alike."
Alternatives: "appreciative attention" or "respectful attention".
He served a 51-month sentence after which he was confined to his home and kept under heavy guard, with what seems to have been no legal justification whatsoever.He has attracted admiring attention ever since.
In romances the women find not only escape from the demanding and often tiresome routines of their lives but also a hero who supplies the tenderness and admiring attention that they have learned not to expect.
Tech got new buildings, new respect, better programs and the admiring attention of regents at other schools who wanted to catapult their institutions to financial stability.
Mack is interested in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright and admires attention to detail.
His apparent choice of team fealty over individual honor capped weeks of admiring national attention on this accomplished student and his quandary.
"Canby's concerted effort to call attention to films he admired helped bring attention to work that might otherwise have gone unnoticed," said Joshua Siegel, the assistant curator in the museum's film and video department who organized the series.
The works here include several that show the artist in the early 1960s, making straightforward graphite renderings of advertising motifs -- a pair of sneakers, a wrist-watch, a half-zipped zipper -- but blown up, cropped and isolated and, above all, concentrated through an admiring, unfussy attention.
His first piece to gain international attention was Admiring La Argentina in 1977, directed by Hijikata, in which he paid a dreamlike homage to Mercé.
I admire his studied attention to details: his tie stuck to his shirt with masking tape, his teeth capped, his breath mint in place.
Some of us may admire the meticulous attention to service by, say, the John Lewis Partnership, more than the publicity stunts of Virgin.
The playing was scrappy at times, but it had a joyful quality that made the rough spots easy to overlook, and you had to admire the players' attention to Baroque phrasing conventions.
