He says "approbation and garlanding" is "delightful" and that "you'd rather get a bunch of flowers than a kick in the teeth" but, ultimately, it doesn't alter the intrinsic artistic worth of either the film or the performance.
"They say that the approbation of my peers when they elected me president of the county treasurers association counts for nothing".
"Fantastic," Szmura said with a snort of approbation.
"Sure, no problem," Friedrich said, unmoved by the fatherly approbation.
His supporters said the same, albeit with approbation rather than opprobrium.
When Congress hired a chaplain, he said "it was not with my approbation".
The system's legitimacy is said to be predicated on divine approbation as determined by the clerisy.
Rabbi Steven M. Dworken, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Council of America, an Orthodox group, said: "If they really wanted Halakhic approbation, they would have gone to the chief rabbi of Israel and asked.
But KeySpan officials said they would also risk severe approbation from environmental and civic groups as well as some elected officials if the company took a more conventional path and sold the property to the highest bidder regardless of future use.
It was some weeks later that I finally succeeded in getting carrots right, although the achievement was secretly marred by the fact that to earn Elisa's approbation — "These are good," she said, picking up my four-quart and dumping the contents into a braising liquid — I had discreetly eaten several hundred imperfect cubes.
This sudden rush of approbation is doubly welcome, they said, since the show — and its unflinching portrayal of Eisenhower/Kennedy-era sexism, racism, anti-Semitism and Scotch before 5 p.m. — was considered a long shot to get made, especially after HBO and Showtime turned it down.
