9 sentences with 'admiration'

Example sentences and phrases with the word admiration and other words derived from it.

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• « The vastness of the ocean filled me with great admiration and fear at the same time. »

• « With a look of astonishment on his face, the boy watched the magic show with admiration. »

• « Everything was always said with admiration and a "mega-watt" smile. »

• « That battle provoked grudging admiration from the Romans, who were forced to acknowledge that they had finally met their match, the Persians. »

• « During the golden age of Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart and Katharine Hepburn, Hollywood was accused of creating unreal characters, more worthy of love and admiration than ordinary mortals. »

• « People stopped Stephen Hawking in the streets of Cambridge to express their deepest admiration. Stephen's youngest son, Timothy, was embarrassed by such encounters, but he delighted in them. »

• « Despite their admiration for Greek culture, there was a paradox in that the Roman elites had their own self-proclaimed 'Roman' virtues, virtues they attributed to the Roman past, which were quite distinct from Greek ideas. »

• « Even given Rome's long admiration for Greek culture, the political and military events of this period, 196-168 BC, helped confirm the Roman belief that the Greeks were artistic and philosophical geniuses but, at least in their current iteration, were also conniving, treacherous and lousy at political organisation. »

• « The victories over the English filled the people of Buenos Aires with enthusiasm and attracted the admiration of the whole viceroyalty. Twice the city had fought to defend its political freedom and religious faith. In the words of Manuel Belgrano to a British chief, we can affirm that the people of Buenos Aires showed that "we wanted the old master or none at all". »

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