Though there is no getting around the fact that parts of her book read like the first draft of a schoolroom translation, she has nevertheless written a commendable life of a flawed man.
"Let me say at the very outset that you have a very commendable life story, and I have great respect for it," said Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes (D-Md ., who has emergeD-Md .rnall's chief interrogator on Capitol Hill.
While he couldn't follow that up with a strong showing against Manchester United, the youngster's commendable start to life on the south coast suggests a first senior cap will come about sooner rather than later.
While so many aspects of the green movement — farmers' markets, composting, gray water, solar power — represent commendable efforts to improve life within a community, there's a competing spirit of naturalism mixed with separatism afoot.
Yet the man's sense of urgency, his recognition of the sheer uselessness of preaching about personal responsibility to youngsters brought up in traumatised, malfunctioning families with no experience or comprehension of the concept of a secure, respectable, wage-earning life was commendable and brave.
Like most immigrants, my parents settled in a country largely unaccustomed to integration and fought battles to give their children a better life - surely commendable actions?
A couple of weeks earlier, the former President, deciding he'd had enough of the N.R.A.'s paranoid babblings about jack-booted federal fascism, had resigned his life membership--a commendable step, for which President Clinton rightly praised him in a post-resignation phone call.
He fought with commendable bravery at D-Day, yet in life was the most timid arachnophobe.
It is sad because age is sad but her life has not been a commendable one, and she is not worthy of much pity.
They are also more socially liberal than were previous generations at the same stage of life.There are several explanations for this commendable fashion.
Aspects of my life that would have been seen as commendable in others were suddenly viewed as suspect in my case for no apparent reason other than my religious and ethnic background.
