I think we do each other a disservice when we pretend that there's something laudable about ignoring the effort we put into our appearances or that there's something brave about admitting the fact that we do put that effort in.
Unfortunately, tackling graft and organised crime, while laudable, is something that many of the countries whose forests fall pray to illegal loggers have signally failed to do, exhortations by august international bodies notwithstanding.
While there's something pretty laudable about Liars' resolution never to make the same record twice, it's a methodology that can, if you've ever enjoyed any of their previous albums and fancy a little more of the same, prove somewhat tiring.
I think that the promotion of baseball overseas is a laudable ambition because it is something worth sharing.
Turns out, there is something more to chew on, besides the laudable act of giving some attention, and support, to a war widow.
It's a laudable message of course, but there's something earnest, lifeless and school-projectish about the whole affair.
There was something about the video recorders, cell phones and cameras that, despite the laudable intentions of the models, made the whole scene unsavory.
There was something about the video recorders, cell phones, and cameras that, despite the laudable intentions of the models, made the whole scene unsavory.
From a political perspective, this turn is laudable; doing something about climate change is certainly better than doing nothing.
While imparting scientific rigor to forensic psychiatry is a laudable goal, something is wrong with the system when this necessarily entails denying psychiatric care to criminal defendants.
