nobility
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Before the prestige drama era, people rarely associated nobility with the small screen.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026
The film seems to suggest that we — the audience to this specious display of white-knighting nobility — are monsters who can act just as heinous as the criminals.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Even back in 13th century Imperial China, the lengthy talons grown by nobility and the delicately carved brass nail shields which usually guarded them were a symbol of a life unmarred by manual labour.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
In the early 1600s, the Seguso name was added to the Venetian government’s Libro d’Oro, or Golden Book, granting them nobility for their glassmaking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
She walked there in the round courtyard with the Governor’s wife, who used her with great kindness, knowing the nobility of her blood.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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It captures all the nobilities of the sport, in all its splendor, in two minutes flat.
From Time ● Apr. 6, 2015
As a result, moviegoers get a full treatment of the giant-sized nobilities and epic despairs that swirl up from Victorian drama, reflected in the iridescent mirror of fin de siecle Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Britain and France had hereditary nobilities; Britain still has a queen.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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Education can do much; it can foster nobilities, it can discourage vices; but literal conveyance of lofty qualities, can it effect that?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 by Various
It is common life that interests me, the virtues, vices, trials, heroisms, debasements, and nobilities of plain people.
From Masterman and Son by W. J. (William James) Dawson
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