Sentence examples for general approbation from inspiring English sources

But his appointment was still greeted with widespread surprise, if also to general approbation.

The news of Rushdie's honour was not received with general approbation.

Having spent most of his life as the scourge of modernity and progress, he ended it amid the general approbation and respect of enlightened public opinion.

Disagreeable aspects contribute to our general approbation because those properties are balanced by naturally agreeable properties.

Since the idea of morality implies something universal, there must be some sentiment of sympathy or (he later says) humanity, which is common to all human beings, and which 'recommends the same object to general approbation' (Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, IX. I. 221).

Walpole added a preface to the poem reading: "The following POEM came into my hands by Accident, if the general Approbation with which this little Piece has been spread, may be call'd by so slight a Term as Accident.

Despite the existence of "general principles of approbation or blame," taste depends on too many variables ("incidents and situations") to offer a detailed dispositional analysis (SOT, 271).

A moral distinction, therefore, immediately arises; a general sentiment of blame and approbation; a tendency, however faint, to the objects of the one, and a proportionable aversion to those of the other.

The sympathy-generated pleasure, then, is the moral approbation we feel toward these traits of character.

The idea of their benefit generates sympathetic pleasure, increasing the sentiment of approbation (T, 364 65).

It is that general point of view that allows us to feel the distinctive sentiments of approbation grounding our moral judgments about virtue, whether artificial or natural.