I am not commending it as a way to think, but the song sums up a particular way of seeing the world which is very common, which is confused and afraid but also confident.
These celebrations were not about commending German superiority, but revelling in the success of the present and hopes for the future; freed from the past and moving forward proudly as one.
She bursts into sobs over not being in the top — "I think that's a lot of emotion for safe," Trixie says in her confessional — and complains that she's not being "commended" properly for her hard work.
SOS Racisme, a non-governmental organization, commended these efforts, but said they were not enough.
What's more, Robertson is to be commended for not having her Lake District-travelling characters encounter William Wordsworth, wandering lonely as a cloud.
As for the picture itself, there's not much to commend it.
Abdul Fatah al-Sisi may be a very jolly general indeed – after all, he created this wondrous administration with himself as deputy prime minister – but sending in his goons against hundreds of thousands of Muslim worshippers on the eve of the feast marking the final day of Ramadan is not likely to commend itself to Egyptians, let alone to the Americans who supply the military with $1.5bn a year.
There is not much to commend this line of argument as a reading of Hume; both the casual attitude toward our identification of the laws of nature and the willingness to grant the occurrence of the event jar with Hume's own presentation of his view.
Malcolm's refusal to embrace the current ACLU-like idiocy is to be commended, not attacked.
And Ms. Tingley, aided in New York by Adriana Proser, an Asia Society curator, is to be commended not just for her scholarship, but also for keeping the faith in an art she believes in and clearly loves, and for delivering it to us, at last, so exquisitely packaged, so historically rich and so fresh with life.
