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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
All this the production of such volumes would at one imply and inspire—life ever producing its appropriate expression in literature, and literature reacting upon the ennoblement of life.
From Civics: as Applied Sociology by Patrick Geddes
