admiring

His ground strokes and movement were so pretty that opponents occasionally got caught admiring instead of competing.

Obviously he meant it in an admiring way.

You see it differently when you grow up with people admiring your parents.

But the admiring, even celebratory, tone of these paeans to hot actresses remaining hot well past Hollywood’s traditional expiration date masks the shadow side of this phenomenon: The wizened, terrifying hag.

Aikman pointed out there’s an important caveat to that: It’s not just about respecting someone who has gone through hardships, but admiring the bounce-back.