Sentence examples for without admiration from inspiring English sources

And his talents are not without admiration among the lit set.

"I could not contemplate the delicate conformation of its roots, leaves and capsula, without admiration".

Yet Sarkozy, she told me, not without admiration, also "understood better than anyone else what I had done".

"He betrayed me for firm tits and a tight fit," he said, not without admiration.

Writing in the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville noted (not without admiration) that "in no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned".

Without the admiration of others, her pain loses purpose; while rooted in the delusion of control, her addiction is exposed as something very much out of control; obsessive; devoid of reason or justification.

Japan being a country without any admiration for hostile takeovers, the insiders are under no pressure to give up control.

Ultimately, it is political union that undergirds social union, and social union that undergirds the mutual bonds of affection and admiration without which a country is nothing.

You can't talk to the people at Transportation Alternatives, New York's long-established sustainable transport campaign (and leading pro-bike group), for more than minute without hearing their admiration and excitement about what Sadik-Khan has done for the cause.

A headdress by the Japanese designer Maiko Takeda that looks like a dandelion made from porcupine quills, in the "ethereal" section of the exhibit (there are six other organizing adjectives: extravagant, intricate, transgressive, emergent, elemental, and transformative), is there to be gazed at; it inspires admiration without an aftertaste of covetousness.

They were not the only ones without a lot of admiration for their students.