Sentences with phrase «grudging admiration»
"Grudging admiration" means feeling of reluctant respect or approval towards someone, usually because they have achieved something remarkable despite not being liked or approved of. Full definition
«He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle,» one of Churchill's rivals says with grudging admiration after that aforementioned speech.
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He despised Gaitskell and George Brown, but had grudging admiration for Harold Wilson.
At the outset, in part because he is being hunted by men much younger than he, Brossard wins a degree of sympathy from the reader and even a grudging admiration for his resourcefulness.
While it would be too much to say he hates the Bishop of Hippo (the book's concluding chapters concede a grudging admiration for the man's greatness), the author clearly wants to bring all his erudition (which is considerable) to the task of deconstructing his subject's reputation.
By the end of the decade, however, as the McGovern crusade caught on and seized the imagination of the young, abhorrence of communism gave way to grudging admiration and, in extreme cases, outright endorsement.
In fact I can not help but have a grudging admiration for him as a manager because he did run us as close as any Spurs team has in the last couple of decades and he did get them into the Champions League and into the quarter final.
And though I don't particularly care for Tottenham either, I have a grudging admiration for some of the football that they play.
I've never met Stone, but reporters sent to write profiles of him sometimes come away with a grudging admiration.
Mandelson is defensive about the failings of judgement that led to his two sackings, and, while bearing a grudging admiration for Gordon Brown, pulls no punches in blaming him for the toxic atmosphere between No 10 and No 11 during the Blair years.
Willoughby is a much - respected, much - liked police officer in Ebbing, and though the town doesn't take kindly to Mildred's attack on him, the two share a grudging admiration and familiarity, born of years of knowing each other, that is effectively and economically established.
Their rapport is perfect, the flinty old professional with a grudging admiration for his son's talents and the modest, good - natured and often distracted writer with a knack for observation and gift for puzzling out complicated mysteries.
Yet despite my grudging admiration, I can not endorse the G63 AMG as a sensible vehicle.
Balanced against this, however, is the world's grudging admiration for China's soaring economic growth, a success partially credited to the one - child policy.
Feel a grudging admiration for our escape artist's bold attempt at escape from the grinches?