Sentence examples for laudable speech from inspiring English sources

Is it just me or was there something just a touch offensive in Pope Francis's (otherwise laudable) speech on Europe's alleged demise, picking out, as it did, words such as tired, haggard, infertile, grandmother to get his point across (Report, 26 November)?

Yet despite the laudable rhetoric of this speech, McCain voted for a procedural motion that allowed McConnell to bring various Obamacare-repeal measures to a vote.

Re "Poetry for Everyday Life," by David Brooks (column, April 12), about the "pervasiveness of metaphorical thinking": Certainly, metaphor is a valuable literary device, and to recognize beauty and creativity in ordinary speech is laudable.

Fighting hate speech is no less laudable a goal.

There's also a significant amount of institutional and legal precedent behind this: the ACLU has a long and laudable history of taking on unpopular, even ugly free-speech cases.

Laudable stuff.

A laudable sentiment, perhaps.

All this is laudable.

That's very laudable.

So far, so laudable.

Which is laudable.