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We should be hesitant to place halos around the heads of people we admire, just as we shouldn’t totally condemn those with whom we disagree.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

“There’s much to admire in ‘Howl’s Moving Castle,’ which is precisely the problem,” remarked film critic Stephanie Zacharek in her 2005 review for Salon.

From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026

Should I admire them greatly, or is there some underlying dynamic that reveals this all to be kind of pathetic?

From Slate ● Jul. 30, 2026

Italian giants Juventus and Serie A champions Inter are interested in Stones - the latter also admire Spence - while Leeds United want to keep the Yorkshire-born defender in the Premier League.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

I was very hot indeed upon Old Orlick’s daring to admire her; as hot as if it were an outrage on myself.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

Macron invited him to a formal dinner to be held at the one place Trump admires most in the world, other than Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower: the Palace of Versailles.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

Quiñones commented, “Journalism is stronger because of your voice, your courage and your story-telling, Cecilia,” and Ramos wrote in Spanish that he respects and admires her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

Plus, Hodin, 37, a freelance writer who chronicled her “groomzilla” experience for Vogue, admires his gold-plated tastes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026

The low-budget film stars Michael Johnston and Inde Navarrette as a man who makes a sinister bargain to win the affections of the woman he admires -- and must bear the consequences.

From Barron's ● May 17, 2026

The department chief in Coquilhatville admires Anatole, so turned a blind eye to his prison record and hired him as headmaster for the regional école secondaire.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

The Dutch -- with their dikes, dams and vast waterworks--have long been admired for their tenacity in the face of flood risks.

From Barron's ● Aug. 15, 2026

Daniel Shelton attended an early August campaign rally in Houston and said he admired Paxton’s common sense.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

PSG have been a club Diomande admired as a kid, with his dad being a supporter of the 14-time French champions.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

Scavengers would dig up artifacts like gold coins and porcelain doll heads, and Bayouth admired their aged, archival qualities, a theme that takes shape in her ceramics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

These factors—cultural, technological, conceptual, political—were absent in China, and hence the Chinese admired clockwork but had no use for it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

One can’t help admiring people who value their way of life more than money, but let me give you the view from my farm in Atchison County: Developers, make me an offer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

My colleague Alex Kirshner wrote about @FreddyLA7, a German X user visiting the U.S. for the tournament whose admiring, travelogue-style posts about Taco Bell, state parks, and other Americana are going viral.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026

The 19-year-old Mboko was the driving force in the second set, earning admiring fist-bumps from Williams as she unloaded winner after winner.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

"Later that night, Peter said to me, I've got a surprise for you. And I saw you admiring this pendant and gave me it."

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

Sometimes they’d watch me spin with a kind of awe, and I almost thought they were admiring me, but their eyes were only on the gold.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff