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
- SHF-RC-2109From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The most holy place in Mecca is Al-Kaaba, a small oblong temple, so called from its cubic form.142 To it the faces of millions of Moslems are devoutly turned in prayer five times a day. It is inclosed by the great mosqu…
- SPHJ-RC-174From In Search of Paul: How Jesus's Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's Kingdom (2005)
The aqueduct at Pisidian Antioch was built sometime during the early part of the first century, and it brought ice-cold water from springs 7 miles away at a higher elevation of about 1,000 feet. The route curved a bit a…
- HCCC-RC-4506From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
The losses of the Reformation in German Switzerland were more than made up by the gains in French Switzerland; that is, in the three Cantons, Vaud, Neuchàtel, and Geneva.332 Protestantism moved westward. Calvin continue…
- NBCV-RC-142From The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (2006)
Thomas Keller serves a faux "blanquette" (of lobster), and Eric Ripert serves a "croque monsieur" (of caviar and smoked salmon), and other hotshot modernists both here and abroad have been freely pilfering the kernels o…
- NB-RC-125From The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (2006)
A celebrity chef who's worked particularly hard to maintain a publicly honest and realistic balance is Mario Batali. From the very inception of each of his new restaurants, he partners with—and gives credit to—a chef wh…
- STAC-RC-1815From Saint Thomas Aquinas Collection (22 Books) (2016)
CHRYSOSTOM. (in Ps. 125.) The word captivity has many meanings. There is a good captivity, which St. Paul speaks of when he says, Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. (2 Cor. 10:5.) There is…
- HCCC-RC-3216From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
On the other hand, Philip the Fair stood as the embodiment of the independence of the state. He had behind him a unified nation, and around him a body of able statesmen and publicists who defended his views.17
- SHF-RC-3878From History of the Christian Church: The Complete Set of Eight Volumes (1858)
Luther was welcomed by his brethren with hymns of joy and prayer. He was clothed with a white woollen shirt, in honor of the pure Virgin, a black cowl and frock, tied by a leathern girdle. He assumed the most menial off…
- SWLT-RC-036From The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy (selected nonfiction) (2016)
And Tolstoy proclaims above all the doctrine of Jesus, not because he thinketh lightly of ignorance, not because he thinketh lightly of passion, not because he thinketh lightly of authority, not because he thinketh ligh…