The author of this amusing and admirable history of the English language argues powerfully for universal linguistic tolerance. |
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Goosen warmed up for next week's US Masters with an admirable defence of the title. |
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His team of experts wear their learning lightly and the information is presented with admirable clarity. |
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The show's animating principle, that O'Briain wants to look back from his deathbed on a life well lived, is equally admirable. |
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Being anti-racist is admirable, but if one is not equally anti-sexist, then it makes a nonsense of the argument. |
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Oozing confidence and poise, the young models walked the ramp with admirable aplomb, in step with music. |
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The playing encompassed subtlety, ardor, menace and rage, all with an admirable polish. |
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Despite the admirable longevity of an established asparagus bed, the plants get off to a slow start. |
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There are moderately priced ones like Sancerre or Vouvray which are admirable but you can expect to pay up to a tenner a bottle. |
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A grassy Sancerre from a very reasonable wine list provided an admirable accompaniment. |
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The diary makes a very interesting read, and the author has an admirable sense of humour. |
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The junior leading men, admirable technicians to whom the notion of charisma is alien, don't appear destined for stardom. |
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That is putting it pretty strongly, and there are admirable exceptions, but it is embarrassingly close to the mark. |
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Evans provides an admirable overview of early ballooning and of the first US and Confederate air forces. |
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While in theory that's an admirable trait, in practice it's pretty uncomfortable. |
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In conditions which tested the resolve of the players as much as their character, the level of self-discipline applied was admirable. |
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He has an admirable faith in technology, unlike many others of his seniority in the Indian Police. |
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Too often, it seemed to me, he was determined to discover in a literary work what was phony or meretricious rather than what was admirable. |
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To handle any subject sensitively is an admirable ambition, but he is having none of it. |
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Susan picked this colour for the walls, and toned it down with white to produce the shade she wanted, and the result is admirable. |
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The admirable Japanese pianist, Haruko Seki, here applies her refreshing lightness of touch to some of the solo piano pieces. |
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One of her brother's more admirable personality traits was his general lack of prejudice. |
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Humility is the finest of all virtues and is the source of all admirable character traits. |
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Of all the millennial projects, the extension of the London Underground, under the direction of Roland Paoletti, is one of the most admirable. |
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The trebles float the highest notes with admirable assurance and no suspicion of strain. |
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While Canada's nationalist impulse is in some ways understandable or even admirable, its articulation as a need for protection is misconceived. |
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However admirable the hard work of those who have risked life and limb to give the Iraqi people a fresh start, the overall effort has misfired. |
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While this misplaced loyalty may be admirable, it's a big financial mistake. |
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The article, while admirable in terms of content, is, unfortunately, mistitled. |
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She has expressively mobile features and switches from youthful hope to aged eccentricity with admirable economy. |
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She does an admirable job of going from ecstatically happy to shrewishly miserable, from being a loving daughter to a hateful sister. |
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It's not a pretty sight when left-wing gangbangers march into action to destroy admirable men, but they really have it down to a science. |
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Our perseverance and pioneering spirit in blazing a trail nobody has ever trodden before is no doubt admirable. |
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Her modest and unassuming manner is admirable and in a way is one of the reasons why the volunteers go out of their way to help. |
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Still, the performances were admirable for their lilting rhythmic undulance and sensitivity. |
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Little showed admirable poise trying to manage the unmanageable Red Sox bullpen. |
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Were the youth of America, desperate for an honest set of heroes, supposed to find these borderline illiterate street skate rats admirable? |
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Owen also provides plenty of poignancy, and does so with admirable unobtrusiveness. |
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She sensed something in my voice which betrayed great unplumbed deeps to my soul and an admirable weariness of the plastic norms of Society? |
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There was something admirable about his optimism, in view of the company's rampant unpopularity. |
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He took to Kildare and its people in an admirable manner and his involvement with various organisations was indicative of his unselfishness. |
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His very particular brand of social realism has driven all his work and has had admirable political impact. |
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In the matches against Celtic these clubs played with an admirable fire and vigour. |
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The meet immediate and human instance of this is V-mail, a remarkable and admirable application-of the record value of film. |
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A short notice cannot do justice to this admirable and thought-provoking book. |
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There is a potent chemistry between the performers and an admirable ease with the full frontal nudity their roles demand. |
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Upgrading a module that combines PHP with SQL is a tougher nut to crack, and it seems as though the XOOPS people have done an admirable job. |
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Undaunted, the admirable Michael Vaughan hooked a rare Glenn McGrath no-ball for six. |
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Neither bothered to turn up and the business editor stepped in to do an admirable job as a late substitute. |
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Some notable instances are given in Professor Sir Rupert Cross's admirable opuscule, Statutory Interpretation. |
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It has made admirable strides in recent years towards more democratic access, and it is not in our interest to see them take a step backwards. |
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At a time when India's experienced players are reluctant to take up this high-pressure job, Kumble's sentiment is admirable. |
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It is an admirable effort but it carries with it certain problems of style subsuming content. |
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In his hobbits he created an image of heroic action that was both admirable and plausible. |
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This is an admirable book and should be the first stop for anyone interested in a dispassionate overview of the subject. |
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This strategy, admirable in its refusal to pander to European popular tastes, will of course never, ever, give Turkey a winning song. |
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The variety, character, and pungency of tone in the flue work, is as admirable as their reeds and swell organs are poor and defective. |
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Howard's admirable insistence on historical particularism and multicultural inclusion raises another set of questions. |
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The administration has enunciated this position with admirable clarity in its new national security strategy. |
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Does this readiness to invest in so-called safety devices represent sheer barking madness or a rather admirable brand of cockeyed optimism? |
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It didn't make the poems any less admirable or, for me, even more imitable. |
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While protecting his position was admirable, Burke often went too far and unnecessarily upset Nine. |
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You are doing an admirable job of reporting this farcical event and I trust you will continue. |
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Westport United showed admirable resilience and courage in coming from behind twice to book a place in the last four of the League Cup. |
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The people inhabiting the area are admirable because they know how to live in harmony with nature. |
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He wrote one inimitably brilliant work, one wryly enjoyable one, some amusing pieces, and everything else is admirable but largely unreadable. |
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Looking closely at the fins you'll see that Hush's attention to detail is admirable, with each fin ridged for ultimate heat exchange. |
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He is an admirable exception to this omission, looking at women and power in his stimulating chapter on the Plantagenet kings. |
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In surviving the cut, an otherwise anguished Woods displayed admirable qualities of courage and resolve. |
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She could be described as a refined, gentle lady, with admirable intellectual qualities. |
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Knowledge of cleanliness, sanitation, clean potable water, and basic amenities for primary health in every village is an admirable beginning. |
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Sipping an orange juice in a west London gastropub, he turns out to be a master of the admirable understatement. |
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Perhaps nothing is more admirable than a parent's dedication to spending quality time with the kids. |
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Larson is a talented writer with a gift for surprising language, and an admirable impulse to show and not tell. |
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While the performances on Grateful Dreams are admirable, the production sounds thin. |
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The promptness of the administration when it comes to demolishing our houses and arresting us is admirable. |
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Surely his extraordinary capacity to rise above the hurt and disappointment of demotion is his most admirable personal trait. |
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Allen's characters, both the admirable ones and the detestable ones, are intensely alive, and we know this by their distinctive voices. |
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Then the event started and I didn't get a chance to introduce myself to either of those admirable gentlemen. |
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Their admirable diplomacy on this sensitive question has an explanation not immediately obvious. |
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Even more admirable, though, are his modesty and guilelessness, so evident in this memoir of outstanding lucidity and charm. |
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His curiosity about cultural divergences within countries and regions, for example, is admirable. |
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His call to reason and civil society and to eschewing irrationalities and violence is admirable. |
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But one abiding feeling displayed by all, despite the circumstances, had to be optimism and an admirable acceptance. |
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That was nice because the decent and admirable Mr Calwell isn't usually accredited with having accomplished much of anything at all. |
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Our athletes came up trumps across the board, with many admirable performances. |
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A dog, for all its admirable and unique qualities, is not a human being and is not treated in the law as such. |
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But then I find myself asking why competition is seen as such an admirable quality. |
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For all of Matthew's admirable qualities, he had one heartbreaking imperfection. |
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This will make an admirable temporary fence and I will have various uses for the mesh once it has done the job on the fence. |
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I laid out all that I find admirable in a working mixed-economy social democracy. |
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The initiatives taken by a number of villages that were badly hit by the tsunami is admirable. |
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After this admirable book, the reader can return to listening to Strauss with added enjoyment. |
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Celibacy is something many have to face for various good, sometimes admirable, reasons. |
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They were vulnerable and needed special care and I have no doubt that much of what you did for them was admirable. |
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It is admirable that she has made her opinion known regardless of what the implications may be. |
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With the admirable exception of the health services this has occurred in the past. |
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Everyone agreed that Bryan Singer had done an admirable job in bringing the Marvel comic to the screen. |
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This is an admirable compendium of the mathematical theories of the aerodynamics of aerofoils and wings. |
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The sentiment behind this memorial may be admirable, but the result is pure kitsch. |
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As Bridges conceives him, he's genuinely funny, even wonkily admirable in his tongue-tied, laissez faire attitude toward the world. |
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It was a rather meek cat which did not go anywhere near the goldfish bowl and used the litterbox with admirable regularity. |
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England does not possess a more admirable competitor and the doughty Lancastrian has been cruelly served by umpiring standards in this series. |
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Dialogue is well balanced with the music, which is rendered with admirable clarity. |
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I take your point entirely, and I agree with you about what the process of inspection is about and the rectification of any sort of deficiency in the process is admirable. |
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Each of these objections, rebuttals, rejoinders, and surrejoinders is in itself admirable, and does infinite credit to the acuteness and candour of the author. |
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It remains unclear whether the interest is altruistic or self-aggrandizing, humane or prurient, psychopathic or admirable. |
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New York has risen from the ashes with admirable resilience. |
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While there are a few, very minor factual errors, the general span and scope of the book, not to mention the detailed portraiture of the ballerina in her world, are admirable. |
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That's when the Minish athlete chucked in her pensionable job for the hard world of professional athletics, but she has been an admirable student since then. |
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His technical skill guarantees admirable clarity in the midst of complex counterpoints, and there is a delightful sense of well-being about the performances. |
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We might say of this enterprise that the work of the engineers and riggers is admirable, and might mean this in a sense that could be understood as aesthetic. |
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However, he displayed admirable character in bouncing back to par both the 17th and 18th holes, almost pinching a birdie on the last when a ten-footer lipped the hole. |
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An insubordinate cuss, he knows that insubordination becomes an admirable trait in an age when the torturer's first line of defense is that he was merely following orders. |
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I find most romcoms intolerable, as they tend to be too heavy on the romance, which is a distinct turnoff, but this had an admirable lack of sentiment. |
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The letter before action set out the facts and law with admirable clarity. |
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The lucidity of the social commentary, especially with regard to how adults use youth sports and its participants as outlets for their own hang-ups, is admirable. |
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As admirable as the U.S. fightback against Belgium was the pride and gusto of their fans. |
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Under the unwatchful helm of a writer-director and a co-screenwriter, however, the results are less than admirable and almost completely devoid of any comedic inspiration. |
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On the other hand, it was admirable to see the way he soaked himself in England, and acquired a perfect mastery of English, even if his English remained a little stiff. |
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And our immune system, admirable and dedicated protector of our health, is making us sneeze our brains out. |
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In addition, a French mono track is included, along with French and Spanish subtitles and English closed captions, to round out the admirable audio options on this disc. |
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Experience will tell whether the admirable notion of creating urbanity by mixing commercial, sporting and educational functions will become a real bit of city. |
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That's very admirable, but he's spread his net far too wide. |
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She is a marvelously complicated, funny, infuriating, and in some ways deeply admirable character. |
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The claret jug is an admirable specimen of one of the best Etruscan models, most graceful in outline, and yet presenting an unmistakeable appearance of solidity. |
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This insularity is a long-held and well-known habit of this administration when setbacks happen, and it's not admirable. |
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Among the ancient Greeks, Aristotle was certainly not one to regard the suppression of justifiable anger as admirable. |
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One admirable attempt to this end has been that of the British Government. |
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The austerity is admirable but the effect of this hair-shirted self-punishment is too often not the revelation of a new affective range, but a dutiful boredom. |
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Originally christened, with admirable simplicity, the Station Hotel, the royal prefix was added after Queen Victoria blessed the building with her presence. |
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But there is something admirable about what it is doing, and about the fact that it has no qualms about it. |
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Contemporary design, while admirable for its sense of cheerful modernity, needs to be careful to retain the essential element of warm domesticity. |
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She sashays with admirable impudence into the back quarters of the salon. |
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No matter how admirable or inspiring his message appears to be, it often hits you over the head like a blunt instrument. |
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Both ideas are admirable, and quite possibly necessary to save American democracy from the auction block. |
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Buckner seems to have handled the notoriety with admirable grace and poise. |
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Librizzi has always struck me as an admirable man, rough-hewn as a New York cabbie. |
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Your willingness to help others is admirable, but unless you're a registered charity you'd best contain your habit of taking in waifs and offering them a hot bath and food. |
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Martha glanced over the chicken drumstick dripping with egg yolk and breadcrumbs very briefly, focusing on the younger girl's face filled with admirable aim to please. |
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The new Metropolitan Police Commissioner is a man of admirable directness. |
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One of the admirable things about Secretary of State John Kerry being his rigidly logical mind. |
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What more can one say except that a lot of us will feel, in heart and body, a continuing sense of loss at the disappearance of this admirable business. |
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It is admirable that you accept a male paramoor in your household, but still, I would have been more stalwart and given the creature up to the headsmen. |
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Although one could perceive her actions as upright, correct, and admirable, it is obvious to the viewer that she is overly castigatory and despondent. |
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Winder's history of immigration charts an admirable course between the Scylla of racist little Britainism and the Charybdis of utopian open-handedness. |
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In this admirable system, one ranks the candidates in order of preference. |
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While he demonstrates admirable aural fidelity to the concept, ideally a more musically compelling evocation would have made a stronger impression. |
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An admirable balance is struck between accessibility and scholarly detail. |
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Here they reproduced that result with great quality and admirable bravery. |
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There is a plethora of admirable precedents to this form of conservatism. |
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The majority of the film is set in Connecticut, and the production design is admirable, since it does not attempt to glorify the characters' lower class surroundings. |
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Tubin shuns big gestures in favour of reasoned argument, and the result is faceless music in which the craftsmanship is admirable but the final effect unmemorable. |
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It is a wieldy document but considering the sheer quantity of material covered, maintains an admirable level of coherence in an objective, clear and concise manner. |
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Annie's self-imposed starvation and Kelly's gluttony are quests for independence and signs of an oddly admirable discipline as much as they are psychological problems. |
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There is also something admirable about the slow pace of change in the U.S. quality media and their determination to hang onto the tried and tested formulas. |
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Axelsson, does an admirable job moving the puck on the power play when called upon, and is a tireless forechecker. |
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That is admirable, and Preserve is clever, or at least canny. |
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She didn't sugarcoat ancient human sacrifices as admirable religious rituals. |
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The board may be admirable in terms of the way they support the manager, but they can be naffer than anyone else. |
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David Sepkoski's admirable essay on macroevolution addresses both familiar and not so familiar issues. |
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It glorified Naziism as something great, noble and admirable in the face of genocide and military conquest. |
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While your concern for others' suffering is admirable, I think your need for others to have survivor guilt and simulated suffering is misplaced. |
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While occasional words strike the reader as formal or awkward, it is an admirable translation, articulate and masterful. |
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It's admirable that Shelley overcame her handicap and excelled in her work. |
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It does seem a shame, though, if genuinely admirable and commemorable individual achievements get overlooked in the process. |
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He discrowned, in rapid succession, one after another of the United States' most, accomplished and admirable commanders. |
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To her distorted fancy he was a man among men, a hero, all that was admirable and magnificent. |
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Melissa, Bawm, hath an admirable vertue to alter melancholy, be it steeped in our ordinary drink, extracted, or otherwise taken. |
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Burke's book is a most admirable medicine against the French disease, which has made too much progress even in this happy country. |
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Elizabeth is regarded as the most admirable and endearing of Austen's heroines. |
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An hour and a half of now-revelrous, now-subdued celebration hummed along with admirable energy. |
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A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill. |
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Rosenbaum does an admirable job of characterizing the philosophy behind the Usonian and its particular place in time. |
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This admirable transparency is almost certain to make her arguments easily dismissible by those who do not already agree. |
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This is one of the meatiest roles Roberts has had in a good long time, and she handles it with an admirable lack of vanity. |
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Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. |
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The fact the Bruins played 22 freshmen, showed admirable grit most times and lost quarterback Cory Paus at midseason were, in the end, of no consequence. |
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They are most takingly illustrated, and each of them in itself illustrates, as all Chinese writing is intended to do, some admirable moral quality. |
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Mr. Coffey does not tell us whether he accomplished this admirable stabilization of his avoirdupois by exercising, by calorizing, or by reading James Joyce. |
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The king's admirable conduct has waded through all these difficulties. |
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McCahill has done an admirable job of drawing together diverse evidence that explores these pontificates politically, artistically, urbanistically, and ceremonially. |
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With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable, contemporary urbanites with every reason, it seems, to be happy. |
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In our own rational, revolutionary republic, Thomas Jefferson considered the new metric system an admirable advance over old English feet, pints, and pounds. |
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Some day, when you are tired of London, come down to Treadley, and expound to me your philosophy of pleasure over some admirable Burgundy I am fortunate enough to possess. |
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