The third point that Reid makes is that "a steady pursuit of our own good may, in an enlightened mind, produce a kind of virtue which is entitled to some degree of approbation, yet it can never produce the noblest kind of virtue, which claims our highest love and esteem" (EAP III.iii.iv: 165).
Writing to Jefferson, he stated, "The friends of the Constitution, some from an approbation of particular amendments, others from a spirit of conciliation, are generally agreed that the System should be revised.
Although he hasn't become quite a household name, writer and director Wes Anderson has earned the approbation of some of Hollywood's most respected directors, such as Martin Scorsese.
"For the government and for Nazarbayev, it is important to have outside approbation, because some of his own people may be questioning what kind of a system they have".
"Long before her death, Lady Thatcher had become a noun (Thatcherism) and an adjective (Thatcherite), terms of approbation to some, and deep disapproval to others.
This account was greeted in some quarters with something approaching approbation: "Betsy DeVos tried to do something good, but of course Trump overruled her" was one take, in The New Republic.
In his basic nomenclature, "taste in morals, eloquence, or beauty" assigns either "approbation" or "disapprobation" (or some combination of both) to objects of taste (T, 547n).
In the Treatise Hume emphasizes that "our sense of every kind of virtue is not natural; but … there are some virtues, that produce pleasure and approbation by means of an artifice or contrivance, which arises from the circumstances and necessities of mankind" (T 3.2.1.1).
Churton Collins reported this moment of approbation to his mother with pleasure and some surprise; it seems that he rather expected to be overlooked.
At times, it's apparent that Louis is sacrificing some part of his core self to chase the approbation of his new audience.
