Piehler also admired the " subtle humorous details ", including the winged monkeys ' adorned with " Red Baron-style googles ".

It is a letter that posterity has much admired, full of subtle, melancholy reflection on the transiency of all things.

Cristofori is perhaps best admired today for his ingenious fortepiano action, which in some ways was more subtle and effective than that of many later instruments.

: By all admired, and by all reverenced ;

Algardi died in Rome within a year of completing his famous relief, which was admired by contemporaries.

Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave follows Geoffrey of Monmouth in calling him Aurelius Ambrosius and portrays him as the father of Merlin, the elder brother of Uther ( hence uncle of Arthur ), an initiate of Mithras, and generally admired by everyone except the Saxons.

Chase admired Whorf's work and frequently sought out a reluctant Whorf, who considered Chase to be " utterly incompetent by training and background to handle such a subject.

The film was admired by Jean-Luc Godard, who featured a clip in his mammoth Histoire ( s ) du cinéma, and Pauline Kael who championed both The Fury and De Palma.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

She was admired by her shepherds and farm managers for her willingness to experiment with the latest biological remedies for the common diseases of sheep, and for her employment of the best shepherds, sheep breeders, and farm managers.

If you admired a necklace worn by Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, you could buy a copy from Joseff of Hollywood, who made the original.

In one case, in the early 1940s, Don Flowers ' Modest Maidens was so admired by William Randolph Hearst that he lured Flowers away from the Associated Press and to King Features Syndicate by doubling the cartoonist's salary, and renamed the feature Glamor Girls to avoid legal action by the AP.

The Tang culture and social systems were admired and adapted by neighboring countries like Japan.

Caligula is described as the first emperor who was admired by everyone in " all the world, from the rising to the setting sun.

Through his simple message Cyril became recognized as one of the most profound and admired Bishops in church history, which ultimately led to his canonization by the Christian church.

On the first floor the original renaissance wood carved, coffered ceiling can be admired by visitors.

He was eclipsed only by the school's most admired exponent, Callimachus ; their learned character and intricate art would have a heavy influence on the Romans.

In eastern Europe, the French army was at times hindered by Manuel I Comnenus, the Byzantine Emperor, who feared that it would jeopardize the tenuous safety of his empire ; however, during their 3-week stay at Constantinople, Louis was fêted and Eleanor was much admired.

Although Baltic Germans at large regarded the future of Estonians as being a fusion with themselves, the Estophile educated class admired the ancient culture of the Estonians and their era of freedom before the conquests by Danes and Germans in the 13th century.

Perón admired Italian Fascism and modelled his economic policies on those pursued by Fascist Italy.

In many of Capra's films, the wise-cracking and sharp dialogue was often written by Riskin, and he and Capra went on to become Hollywood's " most admired writer-director team.

His early works were, however, greatly admired by the young Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who asked him to become his tutor.

Other writers admired by Orwell included: Ralph Waldo Emerson, G. K. Chesterton, George Gissing, Graham Greene, Herman Melville, Henry Miller, Tobias Smollett, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and Yevgeny Zamyatin.

He was admired by and influential among other philosophers, and also by the Bloomsbury Group, but is ( unlike his colleague Russell ) mostly unknown today outside of academic philosophy.

Simms admired the raucous tales emanating from the backwoods, but he had himself social affiliations which would not allow him to approve them fully.

Resolved that, while we most decidedly disapprove the methods he adopted to accomplish his objects, yet in his willingness to die in aid of the great cause of human freedom, we still recognize the qualities of a noble nature and the exercise of a spirit which true men have always admired and which history never fails to honor.

She never could fit into a crowd which had known, which still knew and admired Linda.

Pay BBSes such as The WELL and Echo NYC ( now Internet forums rather than dial-up ), ExecPC, PsudNetwork and MindVox ( which folded in 1996 ) were admired for their tight-knit communities and quality discussion forums.

An " ideal beauty " is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.

" Even Thatcher herself wrote in her 1995 memoirs, which charted her beginnings in Grantham to her victory in the 1979 General Election, that she admired Attlee, writing: " Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer.

Though Beaux admired Eakins more and thought his painting skill superior to Sartain's, she preferred the latter's gentle teaching style which promoted no particular aesthetic approach.

Haeckel, who admired Darwin's work, defined ecology in reference to the economy of nature, which has led some to question whether ecology and the economy of nature are synonymous.

There followed in quick succession two musicals which have secured Kelly's reputation as a major figure in the American musical film, An American in Paris ( 1951 ) and – probably the most popular and admired of all film musicals – Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ).

Due to his literary style and the thoroughness of his research — which seemingly included studying Roman imperial archives and heavily relying on Thucydides — and his apparent rigor — for he tended not to support any character or subject, taking an impartial point of view — he was by far the most read and admired historian during the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the early Modern Era.

When, in 1967, after his death at the age of 91, Germans were asked what they admired most about Adenauer, the majority responded that he had brought home the last German prisoners of war from the USSR, which had become known as the " Return of the 10, 000 ".

Some historians argue that this new approach is an expression of the American spirit and the boundless open space of the frontier, which German culture so admired.

She went on to act to significant acclaim in 10 of his most admired films, including Persona in 1966, The Passion of Anna in 1969, Cries and Whispers in 1972 and Autumn Sonata, in which her co-star, Ingrid Bergman, made her return to Swedish cinema.

Pius II was greatly admired as a poet by his contemporaries, but his reputation in belles lettres rests principally upon his The Tale of the Two Lovers, which continues to be read to this day, partly from its truth to nature, and partly from the singularity of an erotic novel being written by a Pope.

for being " the most amiable and beautiful person that ever eye beheld ; a person also of innate modesty, virtue and courtly deportment, which made him then, but especially after, when he retired to the great city, much admired and adored by the female sex " At the age of eighteen, during a three-week celebration at Oxford, he was granted the degree of Master of Arts.

The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Above all, her words are chosen for their sheer melody: the skill with which she placed her vowels and consonants, admired by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, is evidenced by almost any stanza ; the music to which she sang them has gone, but the spoken sounds may still enchant.

* Based on a play he admired ( which became All That Glitters );

This is perhaps linked to Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, which Wilde admired.