The alternative, and unfortunately the usual route, is to compile a laundry list of laudable qualities.
Those seemingly laudable qualities of being inoffensive, diligent and prodigous can sound a bit like the qualities of passivity, acquiescence and subservience.
But so, too, do some of Romanticism's less laudable qualities, like an annoying descent into the theatrical and groaningly sentimental.
In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. defended the state's approach as "easy, cheap, and administrable — laudable qualities in the context of a vast and intricate program".
I suppose these are all laudable qualities but I do get a bit tired of it happening seemingly whenever Celtic play an English team in the CL.
It can be both refreshing and reassuring to see an object whose appearance is determined by such laudable qualities as economy, efficiency or reliability, rather than the hope of seducing us visually.
Against these overwhelmingly laudable qualities, mistrust often goes unnoticed as a positive social phenomenon, treated as little more than a corrosive absence, a mere negative of trust itself.
However, these laudable qualities, discussed in many texts [ 1- 3], were purely conceived by physicians, for physicians.
She said: "The concept of widespread weekend access is laudable but quality of care must never be sacrificed for access and GPs are already working 11 hour days, with some making up to 60 patient contacts in a single day.
This would seem to be the kind of laudable idealism worth encouraging.
Their sales cannot be much short of $250m yet they live in conditions of laudable frugality.
