The phrase "stir admiration" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to evoke or cause feelings of admiration in others. Example: The singer's powerful performance stirred admiration in the audience, leaving them in awe of her talent.
The economy also stirs admiration.
True, there were a few that went about quick and stirred with admiration for this clean, exciting prose, but most of the reviewers dismissed the volume with a tolerant smile and the word "stark".
The arrival on the nitinol scene of Mr. McGregor -- whose previous ventures were in the software industry -- has stirred both admiration and misgivings among some longtime participants in the field, who are familiar with nitinol's long history of unfulfilled dreams.
To a degree that has stirred grudging admiration from the Democrats who might face him, Mr. Gore became an inescapable figure on television and in newspapers this week, David Letterman one night and Larry King another, not to mention a morning chat on "Today" and a cover article in Time.
Sullenberger's humility stirs the public admiration, Gibbon said.
For Alex Salmond, such moments of communal nationalism must stir a mixture of admiration and deep frustration.
Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the minority leader, hailed the return of Ms. Giffords, saying: "There isn't a name that stirs more love, more admiration, more respect, more wishing for our daughters to be like her than the name of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.
"The sound of this peerless orchestra always stirs anew feelings of tender gratitude and admiration," he said in 1948.
Re "A Five-Ring Opening Circus, Weirdly and Unabashedly British," July 28: Sarah Lyall's take on the Olympic opening ceremony stirred in this Briton a mixture of admiration and nostalgia.
The sentences fell this week like plump acorns out of the slowly reddening oak tree of my reading, stirred by the brisk early autumn breeze of my admiration, into the woven wicker basket of my Twitter feed.
