laudably

Krugman has been laudably willing to confess error; I wasn't aware he'd done so on this point.

There's no usage error there, just laudably vivid imagery.

Since then, it's been laudably smooth sailing -- but if one considers the pre-construction planning work, there's substantial room for improvement.

Wikipedia is being laudably frugal and efficient. I can't imagine running a site their size with much fewer resources.

As an English speaker commenting on a German speaker's use of language -- I think it's laudably accurate, not pedantic.' Everyone knows' may apply to how people in your vicinity use that word, but it's not necessarily the case everyone uses, or approves of, this usage.

This at least is laudably specific; most of these kinds of explanations aren't testable at all. The obvious but taboo answer is that women will generally gravitate to fields which are more social/people focused and less technical/mathematical.

They have laudably since removed the clause, even retroactively from current employees' contracts, but it just goes to show how little bargaining power employees have in the arena of employment contracts.

The Times does a good job of waging such a war in the general case, sometimes quite laudably; when it does make its exceptions, however, allowing things like the Cotton editorial, it has generally been in the service of Journalism as well, communicating the newsworthy opinions of important figures. You should not fear, my erstwhile Times-reading comrade!