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Example sentences for: admiring

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The late subway graffitist turned '80s art superstar gets his first major retrospective, to grudgingly admiring reviews.
After an admiring review of Grizzard's wit, the author turns on the writer for peddling a nostalgic vision of a homogeneous pre-integration South: "Grizzard's idealized South was the world before feminists and affirmative action, when gays stayed in the closet where they belonged, where America pretty much meant the world of small-town white folks like him."
By the end of the book, I couldn't help liking and admiring Holbrooke--not despite his evident flaws but in a curious way because of them.
I'd like to volunteer that these books have drawn some perversely unsatisfying combination reviews, most notably in the Sept. 6 New York Times , which devoted the weight of 30 column inches (by my pica rule) to admiring Celebration, U.S.A. , except for one paragraph spent denouncing The Celebration Chronicles on the astonishing grounds that Mr. Ross is a single man in an apartment without a mortgage or children, and thus had no "real stake" equipping him to comment.
The otherwise admiring review of the Letters in the daily New York Times complained that Powell failed to speak enough about the two world wars she lived through.