Sentence examples for staunch admirer from inspiring English sources

Dier has strong credentials to be the holding midfield player but Hodgson is a staunch admirer of Jack Wilshere and the Arsenal midfielder could play a considerable part as long as his fitness holds up after a season in which he started only one league match.

It was once a staunch admirer of the British Conservative party and the late Margaret Thatcher, but it now sees itself as similar to the Liberal Democrats.

Again, I'm a staunch admirer of one of the creators, composer/lyricist William Finn; but I found this musical -- based on the quirky film of the same name -- to be an entertainment that stubbornly refused to work.

Thus, as a staunch admirer of Dr. Pirnazar's work, I found myself on Sunday at the residence of the Shooshanis, who hosted this event, opening their beautiful home to an attendance, which to my pleasant surprise, was more than 100 strong.

Naturally he ended up poor and little known except to friends, photographers (many of whom he influenced) and a small group of staunch admirers.

Even some of her staunchest admirers disapproved of the last flight.

In recent years, the play's staunchest admirers have included directors David Thacker and Sean Holmes.

He is a plain man from the South Dakota prairie; his staunchest admirers concede that he is not especially clever or charismatic.

Erik Brinkman, a Buddhist monk who remains one of Mr. Roach's staunchest admirers, said, "If the definition of a cult is to follow our spiritual leader into the desert, then we are a cult".

Why on earth have MacMillan's staunchest admirers always singled out the pas de deux for Isadora and her millionaire lover Paris Singer after the death of her children?

'PRIMA DONNA Whenn challenged recently as to why, with only four productions to spare this season, the scaled-down New York City Opera would stake so much on a Rufus Wainwright opera that even some of Mr. Wainwright's staunchest admirers found wanting at its premiere in Manchester, England, in 2009, George Steel, City Opera's general manager and artistic director, rose to a spirited defense.