Sentences with phrase «expressed much admiration»

Not exact matches

That's Stone, a perfectionist who won two Academy Awards for directing (Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July) and one for adapted screenplay (Midnight Express), but hasn't commanded much respect or public admiration since 1995's Nixon.

In writing group some will express admiration or jealousy over how much I write.

This is paying my debt, or not so much paying my debt as expressing my admiration for the abstract expressionist generation that I grew up with and that I admired the most, and that I still admire.»

For example (1) receiving a peeled and segmented orange from a parent in West Bengal has much the same symbolic meaning as verbally praising a child in North America; (2) hissing at a woman in St. Kitts, West Indies is roughly equivalent to giving a wolf - whistle in the in the U. S. — both behaviors express a man's sexual admiration for a woman.