Sentence examples for than praiseworthy from inspiring English sources

Some of the dishes, especially the appetizers, were less than praiseworthy.

For Hume there is a moral point of view from which Newton's achievements may seem less than entirely praiseworthy.

The cult of celebrity is no more edifying, socially beneficial or praiseworthy than its old Stalinist predecessor and counterpart, the cult of personality, and Ms. Leibovitz is little more than an extremely successful photographic apparatchik.

Elaborating Hill's suggestion, the historian Marcus Rediker spent the following decades researching pirate life and came to believe that pirate society "built a better world" — one with vigorous democracy, economic fairness, considerable racial tolerance, and even health care — in many ways more praiseworthy than, say, the one that Snelgrave supported by slave trading.

A deontologist can do more that is morally praiseworthy than morality demands.

However, Leibniz adds, a world in which God is required to perform continuous miracles is a world less perfect, and thereby less praiseworthy, than a world that "unfolds" naturally without the direct intervention of God (Theodicy §16).

In Markham's view, professionalism was considered less praiseworthy than "unforced aptitude", and possibly Scott was influenced by Markham's belief.

The two most polarizing elements of his output handling his own production and hardly ever having any featured artists on his albums—have created a fissure between witty critics who cite those as reasons for how uninteresting he is, and staunch supporters who believe his self-sufficiency is more praiseworthy than the majority of his peers.

I find this praiseworthy, rather than reprehensible.

In these difficult times, caution and attention to detail are praiseworthy rather than the reverse.Action and reactionThe big test will come when the next boom arrives.

The long take is no more inherently praiseworthy, though, than any other cinematic device; there are films in which the long take seems as conventional and uninspired as quick cutting can seem in weaker action films.