Sentences with phrase «somewhat of an admirer»

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And if these revelations of common piety upset his nonreligious admirers, he, too, was somewhat upset by the experience: «My presence in such a place was disturbed / By my duty as a poet who should not flatter popular imaginings, / Yet who desires to remain faithful to your unfathomable intention / When you appeared to children at Fatima and Lourdes.»

He himself, I think, would not be surprised by the somewhat muted tone of this tribute from one of his latter - day admirers.

So Tory admirers of the duo will be somewhat alarmed to see that they have both nominated the veteran Campaign Group member and arch Left - winger John McDonnell for the Labour leadership.

Somewhat known among 80s teen comedy aficionados, but still seemingly underappreciated for its type, Secret Admirer bridges the gap between the teen sex flicks that dominated the early 80s with the John Hughes inspired teen classics of the middle of the decade.

Independent - minded, somewhat eccentric and seemingly unaffected by the shifting trends of the art world in the latter half of the 20th century, Mr. Davie was an early European admirer of postwar American abstract artists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning, whom he first encountered at the 1948 Venice Biennale as well as in the collection of Peggy Guggenheim (who bought two of Mr. Davie's works).

For admirers of human rights, civil liberties and constitutional reform, they represent somewhat of a mixed bag.