admiration
Example Sentences
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He brought to his interpretation a moving blend of guilt over his past behavior and a quiet insistence on the love and admiration he has always felt—if rarely expressed.
While Loktev rarely inserts herself into this epic, we feel her admiration from behind the camera.
From Los Angeles Times
Since then, admiration for its score has inspired many iterations.
Dutiful Meg paradoxically longs for leisure and fashionable clothes; impetuous Jo yearns for literary fame; shy, music-loving Beth wishes only for everyone to be happy; artistic Amy craves admiration and status.
"It is obvious that the painting radiates his admiration," he said.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
