Sentence examples for a noble setting from inspiring English sources

Viewed in a noble setting, but hanging from rails or on a scattering of models, the collection lacked coherence — or much sense of men's wear reality.

Ian, for instance, the misfit teen whose defiant spirit and artistic gift (he's drawing a graphic novel) seem intended to suggest a nobler set of values than those of the corrupted adult world, is himself little more than a list of alternative consumer choices and button-pushing references.

He wrote of this journey: "I never had a happier cruise ... a nobler set of fellows never sailed together".

Nrityagram, which is probably the Indian dance company most beloved by American audiences right now (maybe ever), will be back in New York tonight, for two shows, in a deservedly noble setting, the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum.

If The Dark Knight is a failure than at least it's a noble one, setting its own bar at a height almost unprecedented for multiplex fare – and making a decent go of the jump, too.

The baritone Matthias Goerne, in his final appearances as artist-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic, sings "The Wound-Dresser," John Adams's noble setting of text from Walt Whitman's account of tending to fallen soldiers during the American Civil War.

Tall and with a noble bearing, Montpensier set her heart on an exalted marriage, but the government would neither promise her the future Louis XIV in 1638 nor make a premature peace with the Habsburg powers in time for her to marry the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand III in 1647.

Avnet is setting a noble example here: if all movies were named after their running times, Hollywood would instantly become a brisker place.

On earth, at least, Mr. Garn sets a noble example.

Ms. Louprette set a noble tone with Bach's Prelude and Fugue in G (BWV 541).

But Mr. Belafonte's commitment to social justice, which continues with his investigation into the incarceration of so many young black men in American prisons, sets a noble example.