But Val's enthusiasm, though nipped here and there by unappreciative editors, managed, somehow, to live; or perhaps it had developed into a dogged determination to succeed in spite of everything.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
When the critics assumed that the forms familiar to themselves were the only possible embodiments of those principles, and condemned all others as barbarous, they were led to pass judgments, such, for example, as Voltaire's view of Dante and Shakespeare, which strike us as strangely crude and unappreciative.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
The "evidences of former beauty" might be an unappreciative appraisement of her, badgered by misfortunes to her death.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck