admirable

• His scholarship, seen not only in his Plutarch, but in his rendering of the Daphnis et Chloι of Longus, and other works, was exquisite; but still more admirable was his sense of the capacities of French prose. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• Most admirable, amid much that is admirable, is the picture of the old worldling Macette, whose veil of pretended piety is gradually dropped as she discourses with growing wantonness to the maiden whom she would lead in the way she should not go: Macette is no unworthy elder of the family of Tartufe. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• How admirable were her feelings when she recalled the death of her mother, and in her tragic recital of the death of Madame Broc But when she spoke of her children, her friends, and the fine arts, her whole figure seemed to glow with the ardor of her imagination. —  Hortense Makers of History Series
• [23 Though many of these precepts designed to guide the electors in their choice of men are sagacious and admirable, they smack strongly of that absolute and abstract spirit which can never become powerful in politics without danger. —  Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet
• In many respects the instruction he received was admirable, and there is a traditional anecdote that he was the best mathematician in the school. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)

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