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Example Sentences
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Though it forefronts Schuyler’s central question — Is the goal of racial progress the ennoblement of Blackness or its disappearance into a “chromatic democracy”? — its tone is jumpy and its storytelling lumpy.
From New York Times β Feb. 15, 2022
The art of representation here is an ennoblement of human impulses to rescue and to survive.
From Washington Post β Sep. 11, 2021
The family imported herring and woad in large enough quantities to buy an existing estate and win a kind of ersatz ennoblement.
From The New Yorker β Jan. 8, 2017
We needed only to invent a narrative of cultural significance for our passivity, the minimum required for the ennoblement of our mutual defeat.
From Forbes β Oct. 16, 2014
To stop them is a crime; to shut them up in the heart of the boy or girl makes them a source of great danger instead of an essential element in the ennoblement of character.
From Dickens As an Educator by James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
