Sentence examples for an honorable intention from inspiring English sources

Buried amid the sodden rhetoric and the jungle muck is an honorable intention.

That said, knowing that many doctors have an honorable intention to minimize a patient's anxiety, I must be assertive and solicit information from my doctor.

And also of boredom, frustration and fatigue, as an honorable intention -- to explore the moral conundrums of humanitarian military intervention -- bogs down in dramatic and ideological incoherence.

This is a perfectly honorable intention, but the problem is that, in setting out to overturn historical stereotypes of Jewish passivity, Mr. Zwick (who co-wrote the screenplay with Clayton Frohman) ends up affirming them.

Also the simple and honorable intention to preserve a particular kind of story, one that's much different from even a long newspaper feature, with scenes and characters and a narrative arc.

His comments hit all the formulaic benchmarks of the modern apology for being, or saying something, racist in the media: abject self-deprecation, noted honorable intention, semi-plausible reasoning and questionable contrition.

But Alex has no reason to pull away from Scott, who is a handsome, well-mannered single man with a job and honorable intentions.

It was when I realized that she's a good person with honorable intentions.

From the outset of "John Rabe" you are uncomfortably aware of watching a wartime melodrama that, despite its honorable intentions, will throw in any emotional ploy to keep you engaged.

It was made with earnest care and honorable intentions, and concludes with a recitation of one of Charles Bukowski's best poems.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times applauded the creative team's "honorable intentions" in bringing back a work thought to be "terminally out-of-date", but felt both the new Mei-li and the show around her lacked personality.