Sentence examples for whose approbation from inspiring English sources

How could he know that she was only trailing her mother, since there was no other leader whose approbation could mean so much?

Hooper's introduction in place of Johan Elmander after 63 minutes had been rapturously received by the Norwich fans – whose approbation turned instantly to fury when their new favourite, Nathan Redmond, was also replaced, by Anthony Pilkington.

Some grumbled at the cloying overabundance of detail in his paintings, while the period's premier art critic, John Ruskin, whose approbation the artist craved, complained of a propensity to show landscape veiled in mist.

In America, it came to refer to the suits — the Washington lawyers, the New York bankers, and the university presidents, along with their academic and journalistic epigones — upon whose wisdom elected officials were accustomed to rely, and without whose approbation no public policy could be expected to succeed.

The only musicians whose approbation she takes seriously are, she insists, her friends Lana Del Rey, Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend, and Ariel Pink, whose surf-pop collaboration, Nude Beach A Go-Go, is an unexpected highlight of Broke With Expensive Taste.

Wollstonecraft writes: He who is training us up for immortal bliss, knows best what trials will contribute to make us [virtuous]; and our resignation and improvement will render us respectable to ourselves, and to that Being, whose approbation is of more value than life itself.

This is their true critic, Mrs Dangle observes, whose "fair approbation" they must seek.

This is bound to exasperate partisans of any particular aboutness, whose goal is not case-by-case approbation but blanketing justice.

June 19 'SWEET LORRAINE' (JVC) In which JVC pays homage to Lorraine Gordon, the proprietor of the Village Vanguard, a feisty, opinionated and loyal part of the jazz scene whose decisions to book new bands are still treated as ritual signs of approbation.

These states of approbation, in turn, elicit states of love and esteem for the person whose behavior of which he's aware.

Perhaps surprisingly, The Good Wife, whose final episode was aired in May after seven seasons and which received huge critical approbation, missed out on the top awards.