Sentence examples for be ignoble from inspiring English sources

"It was just right, Dick, Eisenhowerr said over the telephone.Eisenhower could be ignoble, too.

If you compared the two main characters with the cowboys in "Brokeback Mountain," they would be ignoble versions of Ennis del Mar (Jimmy) and Jack Twist (Lars).

Debating Ryan, however, Biden offered a reminder that politics is a profession, and that a lifelong passion for it need not be ignoble.

So here is the bottom line: Mr Scalia finds the recess appointment power in modern presidents' hands to be "ignoble" and "pernicious" while Mr Breyer thinks it's an important safety valve to keep government agencies' doors open when partisan politics threaten to grind everything to a halt.

My motivation was ignoble: I wanted to distribute my journalism more widely.

Whether this view is or (as I believe) is not correct, it is ignoble.

What was ignoble about the spectacle was that the poor dog had begun to hate its own nature.

It's just that nobody behaves well in "Troilus and Cressida," a work in which both love and war are ignoble pursuits.

It is ignoble, risky and undignified, but many democratic leaders have experience of putting their own and their party interests ahead of their nation's.

If anything, Facebook made a very emotionally mature move by acknowledging something important that it lacks; whether paying for it in cash and stock is ignoble is beside the point.

This is why it is ignoble to attack those predestined to lose all the rewards and prizes with which the rich and capable have so effortlessly made off.If there is a ghostly quality in the language of today's warriors against the poor, it is because the prescriptions they offer have been tendered at least since the consolidation of the Elizabethan Poor Law of 1601.