Sentence examples for was both admirable from inspiring English sources

The performance was both admirable and peculiar.

Where Bishop tended toward paralyzing self-criticism, Soares possessed a grandiose ambition that was both admirable and, when she was thwarted, painful.

Debilitated by a December 2004 stroke, he missed the New Year's broadcast for the first time since 1972; his return to the air after a year away was both admirable and awkward.

Rachel Aviv's piece about mental health and anosognosia was both admirable and fair, but, as a longtime lawyer for people with psychiatric disabilities, I could write equally vivid stories about dozens of my clients which would lead to very different policy conclusions ("God Knows Where I Am," May 30th).

Well I think they were both admirable people.

It is about people, places and events that are both admirable and deplorable".

In truth, Grish­am has written a book that is both admirable and disappointing.

She and her sister have a Stakhanovite approach to work and a fearlessness that is both admirable and unnerving.

Liz Lemon is both admirable and absurd: brilliant at her job, disastrous at everything else, a woman driven by ambition, primarily for her next meal.

The current obsession with selfies – with makeup or without – reflects a surge in self-confidence that is both admirable and dangerous.

He's an unhappy man, beset by professional and personal woes, and he makes his secret alliance with Woodward for reasons that are both admirable and vengeful.