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
- CTG-RC-208From The Canterbury Tales (2009)
No one from Hull to Carthage knew more about natural harbours and anchorages; he could fix the position of the moon and the stars without the aid of an astrolabe. He knew all the havens, from Gotland to Cape Finistere, …
- HCC-RC-3554From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Born in Florence, Dec. 11, 1475, Giovanni de’ Medici, the second son of Lorenzo the Magnificent, had every opportunity which family distinction, wealth and learned tutors, such as Poliziano, could give. At 7 he received…
- HCL-RC-149From The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation (2012)
190 ecneuflnI stI dna msicitsanoM enitcideneB :62 erutceL Obedience to the Rule and the abbot (the head of the o monastery) structures the entire way of life. Benedict closely connects disobedience to pride and obedienc…
- GE-RC-193From Goddesses in Everywoman
12. Aphrodite: Goddess of Love and Beauty, Creative Woman and Lover APHRODITE THE GODDESS Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty, whom the Romans called Venus, was the most beautiful of the goddesses. Poets told of the b…
- HCC-RC-1943From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Comp. the Literature at § 41; and especially the excellent monograph (which has since reached us) of Prof. Otto Zöckler: Hieronymus. Sein Leben und Wirken aus seinen Schriften dargestellt. Gotha, 1865. Having already sk…
- HCCC-RC-320From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The people were by the five years’ war reduced to extreme poverty, and left without a magistrate (in the Jewish sense), without a temple, without a country. The renewal of the revolt under the false Messiah, Bar-Cocheba…
- HCC-RC-875From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Epictetus was born before the middle of the first century, at Hierapolis, a city in Phrygia, a few miles from Colossae and Laodicea, well known to us from apostolic history. He was a compatriot and contemporary of Epaph…
- LTD-RC-237From Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity (2024)
With initiatives from Pippin and Charlemagne, duly imitated by their leading noblemen, monasteries were founded or expanded with generous new endowments to spread across the growing imperial dominions; the Emperor follo…
- BDF-RC-322From Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family (1901)
"Listen, my son," he said with mild emphasis, and the child looked a little timidly at the organist's large larynx, which moved up as he spoke, whereupon it quietly and quickly went back to its place, as if it could con…
- AQ22-RC-2483From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
ORIGEN. (tom. x. c. 6, 7) In a mystical sense, it was meet that after the marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the banquet and wine, our Lord should take His mother, brethren, and disciples to the land of consolation (as Ca…
- AQ22-RC-5110From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
WHY THESE PROPERTIES ARE CALLED NOTIONSThese five properties can be called notions of the persons, for the reason that the distinction between the persons in God is brought to our notice through them. On the other hand,…
- AQ22-RC-2444From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
GREGORY. (Hom. vii. in Evang. c. 3) John baptizeth not with the Spirit, but with water; not being able to remit sins, he washes the bodies of the baptized with water, but not their souls with pardon. Why then doth he ba…
- HCCC-RC-238From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
ST. PAUL AND THE CONVERSION OF THE GENTILES. cavriti qeou' eivmi; o{ eijmi, kai; hJ cavri" auvtou' hJ eij" ejme; ouj kenh; ejgenhvqÀh, ajlla; perissovteron aujtw'n pavntwn ejkopivasa, ojuk ejgw; de;, ajlla; hJ cavri" to…
- AQ22-RC-2068From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
12:8–128. Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: 9. But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God. 10. An…
- HIRT-RC-036From Handbook of Item Response Theory, Volume Three: Applications (2018)
26Applications Equation 2.9 is for theAcategory-response functions of one item only. For a complete response matrix withPtest takers andIitems, polytomous response models are thus sys- tems ofP×I×Aequations, each with i…
- CFTT-RC-136From Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009)
87 B. Anzulovic, Heavenly Serbia: From Myth to Genocide (London, 1999), esp. 51–61. For a wise overview of the Serbian cultural formation and comparable situations, see A. Hastings, ‘Holy Lands and Their Political Conse…
- CSA-RC-280From The Confessions of Saint Augustine (354)
Or who, except Thou, our God, made for us that firmament of authority over us in Thy Divine Scripture? as it is said, For heaven shall be folded up like a scroll; and now is it stretched over us like a skin. For Thy Div…
- AQ22-RC-6308From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
THAT MAN NEEDS THE ASSISTANCE OF DIVINE GRACE TO PERSEVERE IN GOODTHE power of free will regards matters of election: but a matter of election is some particular thing to be done; and a particular thing to be done is wh…
- DCA-RC-318From The Divine Comedy (1950)
These are the questions which weigh equally upon thy will; and therefore I will first treat that which hath the most of gall.3 He of the Seraphim who most doth sink himself in God, Moses, Samuel, and that John whichso t…
- STAC-RC-3947From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
Now all animals are alike in the respect that they possess by nature the power of sensation. For an animal is an animal by reason of the fact that it has a sentient soul, which is the nature of an animal in the sense in…