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Example Sentences

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The art of representation here is an ennoblement of human impulses to rescue and to survive.

From Washington Post • 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 • 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 • Oct. 16, 2014

Mr. Wolman avoids gratuitous ennoblement of his characters, but this veteran filmmaker lets tension seep out of tough scenes and tends to telegraph the drama of longer sequences.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2012

He so shares the divine impulses that he has power to subject ambition to the ennoblement of his kind.

From Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings by Schauffler, Robert Haven