Sentence examples for praiseworthy with from inspiring English sources

Godard understood deep-focus effects as just that — one effect among many in a filmmaker's panoply, one that was not inherently praiseworthy with respect to editing or nonediting.

On models of faith as a (special) kind of knowledge, or as firmly held belief, it may seem puzzling how faith could be a virtue unless some implicit volitional component emerges when such models are further explicated, or, alternatively, a case can be made for the claim that what is involuntary may nevertheless be praiseworthy, with theistic faith as a case in point (Adams 1987).

But the Bush administration's housing secretary, Mel Martinez, has brokered a praiseworthy deal with City Hall that could soon make hundreds of abandoned buildings livable again.

One reason for this, perhaps, is that the bar that defines morally praiseworthy behavior shifts with context: when growing numbers of people actively dedicate themselves to the pursuit of civic virtue, it becomes harder to earn moral approval by volunteering.

To me, the most important legacy of Sarah Palin's nomination could be that conservatives, especially conservative men, have found it perfectly acceptable, indeed praiseworthy, for women with young children to combine motherhood and careers and for husbands to share child-rearing.

Bertie's daughter becomes a suffocated 1960s housewife with a "praiseworthy bar that assured every guest would have precisely the cocktail he or she preferred".

Equally praiseworthy (though a flop with the public) was his first solo directorial effort, the wordless concert feature Invitation to the Dance (filmed in 1952, released in 1956).

That the making of art is often an act of praiseworthy self-examination combined with selfishness isn't news at all, and Gordon doesn't claim it is.

Mrs. Mohamed said she endured a comparatively mild form of gavage — "just enough so our family did not get criticized or be thought of as poor" — and was proud to emerge with a praiseworthy, roly-poly figure.

In the industry (the automotive industry for example), there is a growing move towards reuse and reprocessing of plastics for economic as well as environmental reasons with many praiseworthy examples of companies developing technologies and strategies for recycling of plastics.

"It is worth noting that international politics has reacted weakly albeit with some praiseworthy exceptions regarding the concrete will to seek the common good and universal goods, and the ease with which well-founded scientific opinion about the state of our planet is disregarded".