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The author makes clear that suffering, despite popular mythology, typically does not ennoble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
It’s a conviction that allows us to ennoble ourselves with pathos, with rueful maturity, with wisdom won too late.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2021
The number of people who, out of civic generosity, think that they can enlarge or ennoble their selves by giving their energies to a good larger than themselves?
From Salon ● May 27, 2019
The Greek terms ennoble the ailments, even if they don’t make them go away.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 7, 2019
He believed that in the future true culture would ennoble mankind.
From Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by I. A. Bunin
It’s a great, and possibly fictitious, myth that ennobles an ethos of isolated bravery.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2024
Nothing can quite convey the devastation of those who knew and loved “the fallen,” a euphemism that ennobles their sacrifice but also fails to capture the awfulness of violent death.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2022
It is also often seen as a form of art that ennobles those who play and listen to it.
From Salon ● Mar. 20, 2021
This is what Italy do, a way of playing that ennobles and vindicates every other team’s victories.
From The Guardian ● May 7, 2020
The poet truly says: “What most ennobles human nature, Was ne’er the portion of the proud.”
From The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley
Better to live in a world where freedom of expression is ubiquitous than one where the “truth” is told to us by a few ennobled journalists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
He stood down as an MP in 1992 and was ennobled as a cross-bench peer in the same year, despite his party's opposition to the Lords at the time.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025
But on the very eve of publication, Trevor-Roper, who had been ennobled as Baron Dacre, called to say he had changed his mind and now felt they were forgeries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
And that is the thing about generative AI and language learning models: They exist only by feeding on the ennobled human soul.
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2023
These opportunities, therefore, made these men successful, and their outstanding virtue enabled them to recognize that opportunity, whereby their nation was ennobled and became extremely happy.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
Those new to Mr. Helprin’s work will discover his “grit, romanticism and impish humor” and a celebration of “the ennobling effects of romantic love and beauty.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Shostakovich’s detractors have accused him of ennobling Stalin while defenders have sought out subtle musical cues of dissent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2024
People teach, Keegin said, "because they believe in the ennobling of the human soul through encounters with the great minds of the past."
From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2023
In 1650, Diego Velázquez painted this ennobling portrait of Juan de Pareja, a studio assistant enslaved in his studio.
From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
And this confession made his romantic gestures all the more ennobling.
From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan
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