He is as much a figure of admiration here as he is across much of the nation, with many people coming up to praise his leadership of New York after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and to express definite interest in his candidacy.
She's all this, a new media case study, a corporate profit engine, an academic object of inquiry, a figure of admiration, and also ridicule, famous across the globe, and actually still a person too, still living in the same small town.. Blackburn, just off the M8, is equidistant from Edinburgh and Glasgow but a world apart from either.
That picture, beamed around the world, would instantly turn Ennis-Hill from a figure of female admiration to one of inspiration, argues branding expert Louisa Clarke, from the Caffeine Partnership.
That figure brought whistles of admiration.
At work here, as in every memification of an establishment figure, was a combination of admiration, affection and playful condescension.
The neo-puritans of Pennsylvania, who live in rural seclusion on farms without electricity or modern conveniences, have been considered both figures of fun and objects of admiration ever since they featured in Peter Weir's magnificent film Witness.
He was an enemy, a figure of scorn, long before he was a focus of admiration and love.
"It's easier to remember him with that overcoat that made him a national figure of fun and admiration but he was a very formidable correspondent and news editor and a tremendous help not just to me but to Donald Trelford [the Observer editor from 1975 to 1993]," he said.
The pioneers of dadaism - the next big thing - were full of admiration for Marinetti, Apollinaire and Kandinsky as "the greatest figures in modern art".
She monitored his health assiduously, and, as his hostess, she won the admiration and esteem of the leading figures of the day.
