What is "commendable"

Usage examples of "commendable".

With commendable expedition, efficiency and gusto, they stopped those Gepids who attacked on the north bank, then beat them back.

As all commendable diligence was used by the officers of the peace to make way for the bailiff, Herr Hofmeister and his companions were soon in their allotted stations, which, it is scarcely necessary to repeat, were the upper places on the estrade.

But as Jones knew not those virtues in so short an acquaintance, his caution was perhaps prudent and commendable enough.

He said the perseverance and integrity of his friendship was highly commendable, and he wished he could see more frequent instances of that virtue.

Men had been engaged in many pursuits, most of them disastrous, some of them highly commendable.

Lieutenant Cheng Shiao of the Royal Constabulary, did a commendable job of not acting flabbergasted or starstruck when the expected First Philander stepped through the fax gate with the quite unexpected Queen of Sol in tow, plus a pair of dainty metal bodyguards, plus an extra Philander who was quite famous in his own right.

She asked for a half of Dry Blackthorn, showing commendable restraint.

Dartrey or Simeon or Colney to be at his elbow rather than this most commendable of orderly citizens, who little imagined the treacherous revolt from him in the bosom of the gentleman cordially signifying full agreement.

It is all very pleasant, unpretending, unceremonious, cheerful, well ordered, commendable, but not imposing.

Miss Ophelia, after this, did labor, with a commendable degree of zeal and energy, on her new subject.

Enlightenment paradigm: the task of both overcoming gross reductionism, which is altogether commendable, and covertly propagating subtle reductionism, the reduction of all intention to extension, all quality to quantity, all interpreted depths to unambiguously seen surfaces, all hierarchical values to monological mesh, all interiors to holistic strands, all truth and meaning to functional fit, all degrees of interior depth to mere functions of exterior span.

Or again, it was a reason that went from an altogether commendable worldcentric understanding, to a virtual repression of anything not automatically of its ilk.

The priest showed commendable control, letting the girl finish her confession and receive absolution, before running from the booth to raise the alarm.

No longer allowed out of the house, often confined to the bed-room suite on the second floor, poor Babygirl nonetheless managed to adjust to the altered circumstances of her life with commendable fortitude and good humor.

His clerks accepted the expected word, and vanished with commendable calm to prepare the sealed writs the couriers would bear to the chieftains of two cantrefs before the night was over.