Sentence examples for object of praise from inspiring English sources

The fallacy, he has written, consists in turning "a blind eye on the morally or politically dubious aspects of serious music," as if "the only legitimate object of praise or censure in art" is whether it's good or not.

In focus groups that I attended or followed after debates, Joe Biden would regularly be the object of praise and interest: "I want to know more about Senator Biden," participants would say.

Only when an action is, or is believed to be, determined by the will of an agent is that agent regarded as an object of praise or blame — this is a matter of psychological fact for Hume.

Hence, all practical philosophy can and should do is to "correctly present the object, [in such a way] as to be perfectly grasped", that object being relations of the will (SW II: 334); thus, as figured bass presents a theory of beautiful tonal relations, practical philosophy seeks the "whole set of relations by which the will becomes the object of praise or blame" (SW IX: 329: n.*).*

Since the object of praise is one, from this point of view, all religions are but one religion.

* (1996) Caṇḍīśatakam  – Sanskrit hymn of praise.

Hume's arguments here are based on what he claims are two incontestable facts about mankind: "that men always seek society" (T, 2.3.1.8/402) and that men regard other people as objects of praise or blame that is, they hold them responsible.

Penguin Modern Classics has just reissued The Hunters and Light Years, the latter with an introduction by Richard Ford that makes the object of its praise beam with pleasure.

He spoke them in 1937, and the object of his praise, apart from God, was Adolph Hitler.

Brazil's courts are more often the object of ridicule than praise, and some legal scholars warn that this case is only one in a labyrinthine and privileged judicial system.

The nightingale is also the object of empathy and praise within the poem.