noble

Is our love for this noble animal enough to make a solid movie?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

But no matter how noble Alice’s mission is, her consistent character is no match for Anderson’s heavy hand.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026

Making Shakespeare’s plays accessible is a noble goal, but there are other ways to go about this beyond modernizing the text and diluting its lyrical beauty and nuance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Conservative shadow housing secretary Katie Lam said it was a "noble aim" to protect UK democracy from foreign influence but changes proposed by the government had not always been produced with "proper care and attention".

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The young mouse, hiding a smile at Basil’s noble pose, said admiringly, “Oh, Mr. Hare, you do look heroic standing like that! Thank you!”

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

His people are ancient and few, a clan whose kinship with nature left them vulnerable to warring nobles who all but wiped them out.

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Some nobles have tried to improve the atas' lot.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

Hundreds of other nobles, princes and officials likely received similar reports from agents across the empire, forming one of the early modern world's most sophisticated information networks.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026

That’s because it includes a spectrum of voices from across our culture – nobles and villagers, Black and Indigenous figures, women, British loyalists, philosophers and soldiers among them.

From Salon ● Dec. 17, 2025

Even though most nobles were not known for their strength, the king lifted the heavy buckets of water with ease.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin

It would be a valuable prize for the country and for him, an honor far nobler than the Nobel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026

Known for inventing the fast break, McLendon made a far nobler contribution to sports by accelerating the acceptance of minorities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023

Shakespeare in the Park canceled its Thursday and Friday performances of “Hamlet,” saying ’tis not nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of wretched air.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2023

It’s ridiculous how entertaining “Air” is given that it’s about shoes, even if it works overtime to persuade you that it’s also about other, nobler truths, too.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023

Somewhere along the way she'd got the idea that broke people led richer lives than everybody else, that they were nobler or more intelligent.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

The book’s hero is an upbeat, morally upright counselor named Ben Frost, who activated the boys’ noblest impulses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Indeed, it can create the noblest magic known to all mankind.

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025

Gold is famously known as the noblest of all metals because it has little or no reaction when encountering other substances; a property that makes it perfect for wedding rings and coins.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 27, 2024

The Chinese philosopher Confucius reputedly said, “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

Witness this, god of the zenith, noblest of the gods, and Lord Odysseus’ hearthfire, now before me: I swear these things shall turn out as I say.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer