She has many traits that would be seen as laudable in a man: "Whereas if it's a woman, it's neurotic".
After Neville's death Matthew Paris described him as "a man laudable in all things, and a pillar of fidelity in the business of the kingdom and the king".
It's become more acceptable, and even laudable, for both men and women to acknowledge that creating a work and home life that allows for successfully raising children and maintaining a career is a challenge.
The CEO, Daniel Lubetzky, and I have been friends for many years, and I can say from that intimate vantage point that he is a man of laudable integrity.
But Jon Corzine, who is slightly ahead among likely voters, is a decent man with a laudable set of goals for his state.
"That he is ambitious I shall readily grant," he explained to one of Hamilton's critics, "but it is of that laudable kind, which prompts a man to excel in whatever he takes in hand".
And, to a man with his laudable drive and ambition, that is all that matters. .
And after nearly two decades of work with boys and men, as well as laudable gender equality policies and programmes, success in preventing violence, particularly against men and boys, has been minimal (Seedat et al. 2009).
Re "Men's Teams Benched as Colleges Level the Field" (May 9): Although Bill Pennington does a laudable job documenting the losses in men's collegiate athletic programs, he demonstrates less skill in pinpointing the reason for these losses.
Still, A Free Man of Color is a laudable, compelling work, especially a telling scene between Jefferson and Cornet that shatters American mythology.
