"commend itself" is a commonly used, correct phrase in written English.
You can use it when you wish to praise or recognize something, especially for its qualities or merit. For example: The plan's simplicity and effectiveness commended itself to the committee.
This is not an approach that seems to commend itself to the Hungarian prime minister.
Which is a shame, really, because each side has much to commend itself.
"While this approach might commend itself some years hence, it does not do so at the present time," the Chief Justice said.
Souness is for various reasons not a man to pick out for an argument but the trouble here is that he did not merely say that Barcelona were sublimely gifted in many departments of the game, that they had wonderful skills and an ability to apply pressure that would commend itself to the average wolverine.
Julian had been baptized and raised as a Christian, but, although he outwardly conformed until he was supreme, Christianity in its official guise meant to him the religion of those who had murdered his father, his brother, and many of his relations and, as such, was hardly likely to commend itself to him.
I remembered that there had recently been a certain amount of debate on this score: whether to try to preserve the jetty, to raise it up and stop it from disappearing again, or just to leave it to its own devices, to gracefully decay and commend itself to the shallow-looking deep.
This view commends itself to reason.
They broadened the concept to refer to any rule that instinctively commended itself to their sense of justice.
Nor do we feel that the decision commends itself as adapted to conserve vital public and individual interests.
"The Navigators" commends itself to Le Monde as a commentary on "l'interminable agonie de ce qui fut le système circulatoire du capitalisme anglais".
742, commends itself to us as a proper means of dealing with problems such as those raised by the Solicitor General's motion.
