'feel admiration' is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when you want to express that you are feeling admiration for someone or something. For example, "I could not help but feel admiration for her courage."
That any player would feel admiration for Bryant after such treatment speaks to the power of the Stockholm syndrome or the impact of an even worse home life.
Looking at the courage of the hundreds of thousands of protesters who have taken to the streets, one can only feel admiration and anxiety for their safety.
Read about the endeavours of Franklin, Ross and Nansen, and all those who explored in the days of sail and low-tech clothes, and you cannot but feel admiration.
Work in the company of people for whom you feel admiration and affection at something that you feel is worth doing, for the benefit of people who share your point of view, is just about as good as life gets.
Japan's past hardly seems relevant any more, except for the memory that it is the only nation to have suffered nuclear attack.Beyond pity at seeing residents of a rich, proud country scavenging for food, hoarding bottled water and huddling for shelter on schoolroom floors, it was hard not to feel admiration as well.
A FORMER president of the Nicaraguan Congress, Luis Humberto Guzman, said that when Central Americans look at the United States, most feel "admiration for its prosperity, gratitude for its job opportunities and respect for a judicial system that does something like convict Salvadoran generals; but, at the same time, hatred for its arrogance and its support for dictatorial regimes".
"From my childhood, I have always felt admiration for America.
She felt admiration for all the people around her who had worked so hard.
While the students who felt benign envy pledged to study more than they had in prior semesters, those who felt admiration didn't.
"Deep inside, Bouteflika always felt admiration and respect towards the rebel Hocine," a relative of Bouteflika's told Le Monde after Aït Ahmed's death.
"I must admit that for the first time in my life I felt admiration for the skill with which Vladimir Putin maintains his power".
