Sentence examples for approbation as from inspiring English sources

The paintings are always engaging, sometimes marvellous, and, after a long rest in genteel approbation, as good as new.

The system's legitimacy is said to be predicated on divine approbation as determined by the clerisy.

Milton would insert into the printed text of his poem his own anticipation that his epic would receive the same universal approbation as Homer's and Virgil's.

Sempronius Gracchus (father of the famous tribunes) won senatorial approbation as censor in 168 by registering the freedmen in a single urban tribe and thus limiting their electoral influence.

In Cairo, where Islamists were always weakest, the security forces have ridden a wave of public approbation as they have moved quickly to impose a tight lockdown on street protests.

Stepping in at the last minute for Riccardo Muti, he had led the Berlin Philharmonic in 1984 and received a 20-minute ovation and wide approbation as Herbert von Karajan's probable successor (sanctioned by the maestro himself).

On this mid-July night in the heart of Boston, the approbation is as thick as the humidity.

For if she was Mother Shipton would she not have such reserves of buoyancy and self-approbation as to make real downfall impossible?

…the validity of accounts (hadiths) of Muhammad's statements, actions, and approbations as reported by various authorities.

ʿilm al-ḥadīth, form of investigation established by Muslim traditionists in the 3rd century ah (9th century ad) to determine the validity of accounts (hadiths) of Muhammad's statements, actions, and approbations as reported by various authorities.

The dramatist, it is suggested, is partly drawn to the more public and immediately observable approbation of applause, as well as to social aspects of the collaborative process, maddening though it can be.