noble
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Yet the noble aims of the academy begin to look like idealistic naiveté when a group of Dutch law students—who have lost much in the war—bristle at the mixed company.
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
Herzen was an illegitimate son of Ivan Yakovlev, a wealthy scion of one of Russia’s oldest noble families.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“You and your sisters must remain pure of heart on this journey, Odilia. Be courageous but remember to also be noble and everything will be all right.”
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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
The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Not so if you confess to streaming military thrillers while other, nobler souls are busy contemplating peace on earth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
The earliest on the program, “Jefferson and Liberty” from 1800, included the verse: “Here strangers from thousand shores/Compell’d by tyranny to roam;/Shall find, amidst abundant stores,/A nobler and a happier home.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
Rhaenyra looks like the nobler of the two by striving to honor her father’s diplomatic legacy.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2024
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
The Shaper remains, though now there are nobler courts where he might sing.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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
This idea, part of Jefferson's legacy to America, written down in one of the country's noblest documents, was incompatible with the idea of legalized slavery.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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