As a boy and young man, Britten had intensely admired Brahms, but his admiration waned to nothing, and Brahms seldom featured in his repertory.
He was intensely admiring of Francis".
Even so, it's not a pious exaggeration to call him the most interesting and intensely admired figure to emerge from his generation of American writers.
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Yet there's another Catholic Church as well, one I admire intensely.
One does not have to like Roth, or Zuckerman, or Portnoy, to admire the intensely narrated spectacle of their sexual adventures.
Coincidentally Lenin had died just a few months earlier, and Ransome, who had admired him intensely, described him in his obituary for the Manchester Guardian as "one of the greatest Russians in History".
In an initiative that was at the same time inspiring and admired and intensely controversial, Pope John Paul II invited leading religious leaders from the world's leading religious traditions to a carefully orchestrated event in Assisi, a symbolic Christian center long linked to the message of St. Francis.
He admired her ability to intensely read the issues and understand the whole picture.
For instance, Ana Ricarda, a choreographer little-known in America, was much admired abroad for the intensely dramatic Spanish pieces she created for European ballet companies.
