Even an owl on a nearby hillside hooted its approbation.
It would be a pity if amidst the turmoil of current American affairs President Roosevelt's inaugural address received less than its dire approbation.
Dometi Pongo, News Anchor, WVON1690, Chicago, IL @Dometi_ "The trick about speaking truth to power is to do it from your inner conviction of moral truth and not for a desire for approbation and not to be deterred by condemnation either - and to let your sense of the rightness of things overcome the fear of not speaking.
So basically it's a popularity contest, which — like all such games — is devoid of any real substance, yet which also targets the human desire for social approbation to give it a viral stickiness that aims to keep the app in play.
But the men (there almost certainly will not be any women) who file on to the stage for collective approbation face a public that increasingly demands the right to hold its government to account.
The whole performance was so excellent, that it is difficult to select any part for peculiar approbation, but we certainly thought his dialogue with the man in the chest most astonishing; as he not only had to speak in his natural voice, but also to counterfeit the tones of the supposed prisoner, which varied, as the chest was opened or closed, almost with the rapidity of lightning.
They have taken self-deprecating humility and made it an art form, cleverly masking their compulsive craving for attention, approbation and admiration.
So ingrained was her desire for public approbation that she stayed democratic.
United mainly by a consuming desire for public approbation, the newly wedded Daudets were soon divided.
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.
