Sentence examples for particular admiration from inspiring English sources

I congratulated him, while expressing a particular admiration for Guizot.

"Mr Welles was a great storyteller," said Mr Munn, "but he had no particular admiration for John Wayne".

In the memorandum Dr Ochberg reserved particular admiration for Ms Knight, whom he said had suffered "the longest and most severely".

He recommended a blog post, "The Secret Life of Fonts," written by Phil Renaud, self-described as "a Canadian blog design and web design enthusiast, with a particular admiration for web standards and CSS innovation.

He cannot speak Japanese very well; he has not expressed any particular admiration for Japan or its culture; and he set his first two novels in Japan without revisiting the country.

Far from it: they were the starting-point of all his inquiries, for Mr Foot was a committed socialist of a largely unreconstructed kind, with a particular admiration for Leon Trotsky.

Put on the spot by O'Donnell, she defended her love of professional boxing, and in particular her admiration for Floyd Mayweather Jr., despite his history of domestic abuse.

There is no particular affection or admiration for the disparity between big clubs and small clubs that has taken root in the Champions League era, and people are pleased to see the little guys fighting back.

That is, I suppose, a reflection of my general distaste for the whole cult of celebrity - not just the adoration of people with no merits except the ability to be photographed for newspapers but, equally, the assumption that a person of distinction is in every particular worth both admiration and imitation.

His description of the origins of the Vietnamese Communist party, for example, is wrong in almost every particular; his warm admiration for John Paul Vann, the mythomaniac American counter-insurgency officer whose career was detailed in Neil Sheehan's Pulitzer-prize winning Bright and Shining Lie (1988), is particularly perverse.

Kovács also says to expect "brilliant stuff" coming soon from a mix of newcomers and usual suspects on Studio Barnhus, speaking of Baba Stiltz in particular with an admiration that approaches awe: "He's just getting started; he is going to blow people's minds pretty soon".