Beating out noble competition from his colleagues--William Bolcom, Donald Erb, Toru Takemitsu and Michael Tippett--American octogenarian Elliott Carter took the award for best contemporary composition for his violin concerto, as played by soloist Ole Bohn, with the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Oliver Knussen.
Then, 14 minutes after Noble beat Tomasz Kuszczak from the spot, the midfielder had his second.
Over and over — on MTV, on UPN, in the "Barbershop" movie franchise, and so on — we see one-dimensional coon shows in which an actor of color is invariably noble, "beat down," or a thug (with or without a head rag); blacks onstage and onscreen must be or live through a nightmare in order for whiteness to seem like a dream.
The ballerina has unusually fast footwork, and her partner needs the leg beats of the noble style as well as masculine vigor.
Presumably, Avengers 4 will have some kind of triumphant conclusion, where our noble heroes beat the glove right off Thanos's hand and save the universe once again, but the trailer doesn't give us much in the way of hope.
It's one of the earliest lessons we learn in life: that noble pauperdom beats evil wealth every time, and boo hiss to anyone who disagrees.
They had a common and noble goal: to beat back what could be a potential pandemic of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis.
But he didn't sell his soul for something noble -- like beating the Yankees and going to the World Series.
Albert Hunter, a sociologist at Northwestern University who studies upper-middle-class families, said the notion that all work was respectable, even noble, had taken a beating.
Liam Noble missed a great chance to equalise but failed to beat keeper James Walker from 10 yards.
