A less laudable character was Klaus Barbie, a k a the Butcher of Lyon.
A Disney official said the spring has a laudable role.
Marston proves to be the least laudable of her characters, but Elizabeth Holloway, Olive Byrne and, above all, Margaret Sanger, emerge as true, if flawed, Wonder Women.
In newspaper obituaries, it was long customary to lavish praise on the subjects, noting laudable traits of character.
With one minor drunken setback behind him, and a successfully ambitious album pushing him well ahead in the saturated sea of digital music makers, it's not only Stanczak's music that's laudable, it's his character.
While Lorentz's attempt to diversify the young adult character pool is laudable (Marco's grandparents are Costa Rican, Lexi is African-American, Shay says her classmates see her as "the Indian chick"), her profiles lean more toward tell than show, and the third-person narration lacks the nuance and first-person intensity of "Monument 14".
In this view, strong moral character produces future laudable behavior.
To the Editor: Encouraging rich and diverse representation in classroom texts is laudable, but suggesting the pairing of Latino characters to Latino students is deeply problematic.
The Richard and Judy culture of book clubs, while laudable in itself, demands strongly-plotted novels with likeable characters as fodder.
Joking aside, what's especially laudable is the dimensionality writer Paul Roundell distributes among the characters and the convincing way it shows how violence and fear ultimately distort the morality of even essentially good people.
