Sentence examples for is not admirable from inspiring English sources

And obviously for somebody like me, he stands for everything that is not admirable in American society".

Implicit in Lord of the Flies is the understanding that even if the children's descent into savagery is inevitable, it is not admirable.

In a Rolling Stone interview, Waters said Trump "stands for everything that is not admirable in American society", after calling the Republican presidential candidate "pig-ignorant".

What is not admirable is for her to take a slot at Yale Law School that could have gone to a young woman whose dream is to be in the Senate by age 40 and in the White House by age 50.

Nevertheless, I may think the dictator is not admirable.

Unfortunately yes, but that recklessness is not admirable.

MetLife's abandonment of its original mission -- providing housing for middle-class citizens -- isn't admirable, but it is legal.

The gas mileage isn't admirable, but it's not totally horrible: 15 miles per gallon in the city, 22 m.p.g on the highway.

Heroism and leadership when in the line of fire are one thing — Worsley was obviously skilled and admirable as a commander — but seeking out death, just for the "challenge," isn't admirable.

Gautama, as I have said, is bananas, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have qualities that are worth admiring or that his attempt to figure out where happiness might lie for him isn't admirable.

In the case of pleasure, there are other reasons for thinking that it is not worthy of admiration, namely, that pleasant experiences are not admirable like virtue and intellectual activity and that one is not considered admirable in respect of feeling pleasure, though one is in respect of behaving virtuously and in respect of intellectual activity (FE 271).