Admiration
Esteem or appreciative warmth directed at another person, act, or quality.
49 passages tagged with this primary in the Penwright corpus.
Study and magazine
Entry resolves to the emotion-tagged sequence when published (ASN-933); until then you may land on a placeholder or the main player.
No published passage–image pairings for this emotion yet. The passage list below still reflects how the corpus names this feeling in text.
Part of a cluster
Admiration sits inside the cluster below. Each card explains why these emotions cluster — and what specifically distinguishes Admirationfrom its siblings here.
Often arrives with
Secondary emotions tagged alongside this primary in the same passages (co-occurrence in loom_passage_tags).
Articles
Vela essays that take this emotion as subject. Articles are ordered by tagging weight (the editor's read of how central this emotion is to the piece).
Elements of Looking
Centrally about
What Rembrandt Knew About Shadow
The most influential lighting technique in art history, and why photographers are still learning from a painter who died in 1669.
Rembrandt van Rijn never photographed anyone. He died three hundred and fifty-seven years before the first camera. And yet every portrait photographer working today is, in some sense, his student.
6 min read
Essays
Centrally about
Drapery as Language
The Sitter’s Weight — Sargent, the Commission, and What Fabric Does in a Portrait
The first thing to know about John Singer Sargent, if you are coming to him from the side of the twentieth century that made image the subject, is that his sitters were not public before they were private. They were not already circulating.…
15 min read
Essays
Strongly present
Vienna, Three Ways (draft mirror)
A retrospective: Warhol, Schiele, Klimt — what the studies kept, what they refused, and what still argues with us
This is the capstone to a deliberate triptych. Andy Warhol was our study in reproduction as a kind of devotion — a face the culture already held in common, passed through the Factory until the operation on the image, not the face it showed,…
9 min read
Conversations
Strongly present
The Figure Turned Away
Degas, 1885. A photographer you don't know, 2024. The same morning. What travels across time when everything else changes.
There is a Seurat conté study from the 1880s for Les Poseuses in which a standing nude faces you on the page — frontal and direct, nowhere to hide. This is not a turned back; it is here on purpose, because the essay is about absorption, and…
7 min read
essays
Adjacent
The Absent Anchor
Why naming what the library cannot cite is still scholarship
This is the first essay in the Coverage Gap Essays series — a standing invitation to turn retrieval misses into publishable argument.
6 min read
Research
How Vela holds this emotion as a research object — historiographic, ethnographic, and empirical. The full thread sits sibling to the desire program and the Christianity-sex-shame thread.
- Public introduction — What We Mean When We Name a Feeling. The program essay: what naming does, what disappears when a name disappears, and why the work matters for editorial honesty.
- Literature map — claims keyed to coordinates across historiography of emotion, the basic-vs-constructionist debate, cross-cultural ethnography, and the empirical psychology of named emotions.
- Bibliography — ~110 entries grouped by section, with verified DOIs and stable URLs where available.
- External research runs — index of the 36-run deep-research bring-back that underlies the map and bibliography.
- Vela research surface — index of all research threads (desire, Christianity-sex-shame, text-aesthetic, emotion, Boudoir Studios, museum diversity, artist studies).
Passages
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49 tagged passages
- HCCP-RC-2608From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Respecting St. Symeon, or Simeon Stylites, we have accounts from three contemporaries and eye witnesses, Anthony, Cosmas, and especially Theodoret (Hist. Relig. c. 26). The latter composed his narrative sixteen years be…
- SHF-RC-4480From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
It is by the combination of a severe creed with severe self-discipline that Calvin became the father of the heroic races of French Huguenots, Dutch Burghers, English Puritans, Scotch Covenanters, and New England Pilgrim…
- STAC-RC-1365From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
GLOSS. (non occ.) From the words then, which have been quoted, we can infer two things; first, the divine virtue which was in Christ, by which He was able to lighten the Gentiles; for it is said, My God shall be my stre…
- ML-RC-237From Martin Luther (2016)
The next day Luther and his friends traveled on to Eisenach, where Luther preached again. Luther believed and declared that the Word of God could not be bound, so as far as he was concerned, he could not obey any man wh…
- JDCE-RC-967From The John Dominic Crossan Essential Set (Jesus; The Birth of Christianity; The Power of Parable; The Greatest Prayer) (2004)
Most of the “road” to Mount Sinai was hard-packed sand, and our caravan stopped every half hour to make certain that the last car was still back there in the dust cloud. We had permission to stay overnight in a dormitor…
- AQ22-RC-2350From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
ATHANASIUS. (de Inc. Verb. Dei.) Now our Saviour came to accomplish not His own death, but that of man, for He experienced not death who is Life. Therefore not by His own death did He put off the body, but He endured th…
- HCC-RC-576From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
A few weeks before his fifth and last journey to Jerusalem, Paul sent, as a forerunner of his intended personal visit, a letter to the Christians in the capital of the world, which was intended by Providence to become t…
- LTD-RC-469From Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (2024)
17 & 18. Demonic desert temptations for the long-suffering 4th-century ascetic Antony of Egypt: by an Ethiopian boy and – more dramatically – by some enthusiastic ladies. As envisaged in a Parisian volume of the Golden …
- DGB-RC-149From The Decameron (1353)
FOURTH STORY Tofano locks his wife out of the house one night, and his wife, having pleaded with him in vain to let her in, pretends to throw herself down a well, into which she hurls an enormous stone. Tofano emerges f…
- HGG-RC-006From Holy Ghost Girl (2012)
He said the crowd in Chattanooga was so hot, they warmed him up. He and the audience fed off each other, tossing the lines of song back and forth until the words gradually ebbed and music took over.In the Holy Roller le…
- SHF-RC-4081From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
In his equally popular "Colloquies" (Colloquia Familiaria), begun in 1519, and enlarged in numerous editions, Erasmus aims to make better scholars and better men, as he says in his dedication to John Erasmius Froben (th…
- HCC-RC-168From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The historical or inner criticism (which the Germans call the "higher criticism," höhere Kritik) deals with the origin, spirit, and aim of the New Testament writings, their historical environments, and organic place in …
- HCCC-RC-3760From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
He drew more upon the threatenings of the divine wrath than upon the refreshing springs of the divine compassion. Tender descriptions of the divine love and mercy were not wanting in his sermons, but the woes pronounced…
- PM-RC-128From The Power of Myth (1988)
MOYERS: But a man said to me once after years of standing on the platform of the subway, “I die a little bit down there every day, but I know I am doing so for my family.” There are small acts of heroism, too, that occu…
- HCCC-RC-341From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Irenaeus bears testimony to his character as "the Son of Thunder" when he relates, as from the lips of Polycarp, that, on meeting in a public bath at Ephesus the Gnostic heretic Cerinthus,601 who denied the incarnation …
- HCCP-RC-1111From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
We serve God also by taking holiday and rest." If we look at the contents, Luther is the primary, Melanchthon the secondary, author; but the form, the method, style, and temper are altogether Melanchthon’s. Nobody else …
- AQ22-RC-12634From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
I answer that, As stated above [3724](A[2]), a thing may belong to the contemplative life in two ways: principally, and secondarily, or dispositively. That which belongs principally to the contemplative life is the cont…
- HCC-RC-339From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
To this we may add the testimony of the atheistic philosopher, John Stuart Mill from his essay on Theism, written shortly before his death (1873), and published, 1874, in Three Essays on Religion. (Am. ed., p. 253): "Ab…
- STAC-RC-809From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
GREGORY. (Hom. in Ev. xvii. 4.) For he who undertakes the office of preacher ought not to do evil, but to suffer it, and by his meekness to mollify the wrath of the angry, and by his wounds to heal the wounds of sinners…
- AQ22-RC-5831From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
I. On the first head it is to be noted, the goodness of Jesus; for Jesus is interpreted Saviour, since He wished to die that He might save by His death, and show His infinite goodness. Truly today for three reasons the …