Sentence examples for finest praise from inspiring English sources

In Italy, McGovern wrote for his squadron newspaper: "The finest praise any man can receive is to be satisfied himself with what he has accomplished.... Combat may be rough, but it won't be half as rough if we go through it in the right spirit.

This is the soundtrack album for a documentary that was partly filmed at the time of N'Dour's collaboration with the Egyptian band leader Fathy Salama, and the live tracks recorded with his orchestra include a soaring reworking of Yama as well as a drifting oud-backed treatment of his finest praise song to Senegal's Sufi Islamic tradition, Touba Daru Salaam.

It was a penalty and deserves fines, not praise.

His writing was often an entertainment itself: conversational prose that conveyed a bracing disdain for sentiment, a clear eye for meretricious art, rapier cuts for pretentious fools and fine-tuned praise for artistry, all in a monologue -- and sometimes in an invented dialogue with a character he dubbed Stanley.

They have rubbished his ability and on his finest days offered praise grudgingly.

The writers of these works will be pitched as "one of our finest storytellers" or praised for their ability to cast "a miraculous literary spell".

As a result, I can report that having people pray over you feels just fine, like getting praise and a shoulder massage and an offer of help all in one.

So while I think it's absolutely fine to shower praise on films that tell the stories of disabled people and tell them well, let's hold back some of that praise for those films that actually have the guts to hire disabled actors.

A well-trained guardian will "praise fine things, be pleased by them, receive them into his soul, and, being nurtured by them, become fine and good," and each will "rightly object to what is shameful, hating it while he's still young and unable to grasp the reason" (401e4 402a2; cf. 441e).

Academic achievement can certainly help children succeed, and for parents there can be a fine line between praising effort and praising performance.

Such muted praise is fine with Mr. Wang.