These brief examples share the revelatory self-belief that they merit admiration and emulation.
Take, for instance, the savant's assurance to the actress whom he meets on the plane that she merits his admiration.
In fact, only last year Blaney, who has known Clarke for 15 years, presented him with the "Golden Dolphin" – according to the YBF website, "a special award … for those who merit particular admiration for their courage and leadership … this award is in the personal gift of YBF's founder, Donal Blaney".
But his appointments in the west were swayed more by his generals' loyalty to the South's political cause than by their military competence.As described by Mr Cooper, Davis's behaviour before and especially after the war merits sympathy, even admiration.
That doesn't make his arguments right, but it does merit some grudging admiration.
This Being merits all of our admiration" [MM, p.431].
Perhaps it is the many who share the author's admiration who merit this eulogy to the breasts.
The movie is a classic example of the good precluding the great — and the admiration for its formidable merits getting in the way of an uninhibitedly ecstatic viewing experience.
His admiration for Putin, regardless of its merits, could provide the basis for meaningful discussions about how to minimize nuclear risks.
And I'm not jumping in right now, just pondering in admiration and calling attention to a conversation that merits attention from anyone who cares deeply about movies.
("The dead were pure," muses Guldberg, an undertaker's son, with creepy admiration. "They did not roll in filth"). Among this book's merits is its perceptive treatment of the collision between the sheer purity of absolute ideas, whether religious or philosophical, and the stubborn impurity, complexity, ambiguity of actual human lives.
