Sentence examples for for approbation from inspiring English sources
Doing a TV interview, he decides his weakness for approbation is a personality flaw.
Doing a TV interview, he decides his weakness for approbation is a personality flaw.
It also provides a vivid sense of Warhol's relatively vulnerable frame of mind, his yearning for approbation and his encounters with old master painting, which helped revive his own interest in painting.
The book she wrote about this experience – L'aube, le soir ou la nuit (Dawn, Dusk or Night) – described Sarkozy as a pint-sized egoist driven by "a childlike search for approbation".
Although the work reveals little new about the president and sometimes fawns with admiration, Reza depicts a tetchy and "unexpectedly fragile" overgrown schoolboy locked into a "childlike search for approbation".
If you are needy and insecure, your leadership will be distorted by wanting people to like you, and your desire for approbation will engender weak decision-making and indulgence of under-performing favourites.
Indeed, a favorite word of approbation, for anything that composes itself into a visual study, is "pretty".
Ever eager to sprinkle beads of approbation for the storied man he hopes to bring down, Mr. Hayworth couched his confidence in compliments.
Muriel Spark has been much praised too, and last week in the Times, Helen Dunmore joined the chorus of approbation for The Finishing School, a tale of jealousy between a stalled novelist-schoolmaster and an annoyingly gifted pupil.
How can there be an impression of approbation for a tragic play?
He also noted — correctly — that a number of other French celebrities have long been based outside France for tax reasons, but that not all of them have come in for such approbation from the government or news media.
