I can't help admiring his talent.

This is a chain gang of guys admiring the car.

Then he walked in full pride to his family admiring himself!

Then he walked in full pride to his family admiring himself!

Tom was admiring my new car at the time the truck crashed into it.

But when we think about justice, Aristotle says, what we really need to think about is the essential nature of the activity in question and the qualities that are worth honoring and admiring and recognizing.

LONDON The editor of The Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, has written a book about how he decided to practice the piano 20 minutes a day. Eighteen months later, he played Chopin s fearsomely difficult Ballade No. 1 in G Minor to an admiring audience of friends.

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi s leadership, India may prove to be a semi admiring imitator of China. Russia, by contrast, is a more classic National Security State, now playing Western anxieties like a fiddle to consolidate its tightening grip on Ukraine and suppress domestic opposition with a tide of official nationalism.

Neo Confucianism provided the basic ideology for China s admiring neighbors Japan, Korea, and Vietnam until the advent of the West. Its tenets were highly appropriate to the settled, sophisticated agrarian civilizations of pre nineteenth century East Asia, for they knitted together society and polity in a manner calculated to promote stability and harmony.

People have become less admiring of Berlusconi, because the hypocrisy has gone too far. It may be trendy for an Italian politician to flaunt his Mediterranean macho image, but that image becomes hard to stomach when the prime minister launches a campaign to eradicate street prostitution, with possible jail sentences for clients, while sleeping with paid escorts.