| All of the old admirations, enthusiasms, boundless joys, determinations, compassions, vulnerabilities innocence and profound gratitude were again, served up to the moment through simply being together. |
| However, like his elders, his admirations lead him to the gates of Great Europe and he conceives neither Franck and Debussy without Wagner, nor Poulenc without Stravinski, or Dutilleux without the Vienna School. |
| He transforms each of his admirations, sooner or later, into a portrait. |
| These would fade away little by little, and the giggling denigrations would be replaced by goggling admirations, a slow fade-up that might not be noticed if it weren't part of the eternal foster cycle. |
| Anathemas and admirations roll off his tongue as though it were a production line. |
| We are late arrivals to all this and I have nothing but admirations to those who beat me to the punch by a few decades. |
