But today, as he came back to survey the wreckage from Thursday's wave of tornadoes, not only old friends and loyal admirers turned out to greet him.
Bryan had an unusually high number of nicknames given to him in his lifetime; most of these were given by his loyal admirers in the Democratic Party.
His fiction never had the widest readership, but his loyal admirers sought out and savored his tales of upper-class citizens in an old and changing South.
But as even Mr. Di Stefano's loyal admirers tend to concede, he did not fulfill his promise.
He was a loyal admirer of my family.
The soprano Kathleen Battle may be unwelcome at the Metropolitan Opera, but she clearly has loyal admirers in New York.
Roed became a lifelong and loyal admirer of Eckersberg, and his principles of exact and careful observations of nature.
Throughout his career, he has had his loyal admirers, like John Guare, whose plays he has produced.
Even his loyal admirers felt that it was all over for him.
Yet the failure of "The Capeman" should not be a cause for derision but for lamentation, even beyond Mr. Simon's public of loyal admirers.