While trumpeting himself as a defender of academic freedom, Dershowitz's actual record calls that self-approbation into doubt.
Architects and designers have embraced the lowly ranch, riffing enthusiastically on the classic form, which surfed back into public approbation with modernism's return in the mid-90's.
Indeed, a favorite word of approbation, for anything that composes itself into a visual study, is "pretty".
Walpole added a preface to the poem reading: "The following POEM came into my hands by Accident, if the general Approbation with which this little Piece has been spread, may be call'd by so slight a Term as Accident.
The moniker met with the approbation of the whole school.
The book won the Caldecott Medal for the best picture book of 1963, but Sendak encountered the same mixture of condemnation and approbation with the publication, in 1970, of "In the Night Kitchen," in which a naked, gleeful little boy called Mickey narrowly avoids being made into a cake.
Unalloyed pleasure on the faces of players, frequent mutual approbation during the performance and Chailly's ample acknowledgement of principals, sections and rank and file alike communicated such positive vibrations as to send the Cardiff audience out into the night on a strong high.
So ingrained was her desire for public approbation that she stayed democratic.
The urge to take credit, to seek approbation for your work, is an understandable one.
These twin impulses — toward reckless self-regard and the approbation of others — neatly negate one another.
Created by Meg Andrew, the ensembles received greater approbation than many other shows this week.
