The phrase "admiring look" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a gaze or expression that conveys admiration or appreciation towards someone or something.
Example: "She caught his admiring look from across the room, making her heart flutter."
Alternatives: "appreciative gaze" or "admiring glance."
Guests filed out onto Memorial Drive, taking one last admiring look at the Great Dome and, across the river, the Prudential Center, whose 750-foot-high (or 134.32 Smoots, as Hockfield pointed out) homage to the Institute still shone brightly.
The important point is to recognize the difference between the admiring look and the lingering leer; the former is brief and harmless and then your face becomes the target of conversation, while the latter is lascivious and disrespectful, and fails to take your face into account.
"Inventions That Shook the World," a new series at 10 a.m., begins with "The 1900s" and an admiring look at the airplane and the radio.
Robert Weide's LENNY BRUCE: SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH (1998) takes an admiring look at Bruce's short life and his routines, including one called "How to Relax Your Colored Friends at Parties" and another about a used-car dealer who talked up a low-mileage Volkswagen by contending that it was used only to shuttle passengers to death camps -- Friday at 9 p.m. on Sundance.
It was a show by, about and (mostly) for women, an admiring look at a movement that has been overlooked in pop culture portrayals of the 1960s and '70s, one of the most exhaustively chronicled eras in American history.
The result is an unsentimental but admiring look at a soldier's life in one of the deadliest theaters of combat, peppered with some of the most terrifying combat footage ever shot.
Their eager admiring looks, are produced, indicate.
His own solos were florid and expansive, and drew admiring looks from many members of the band.
A pair of priapic 1952 Allard J2Xs, their hoods secured with period-correct leather straps, drew admiring looks, as did assorted Jaguars and Ferraris.
More important, the admiring looks he gets are the same, whether the car is his, or his for a week.
The house, drawing admiring looks from passers-by, sits in a historic district in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, safe from demolition.
