Sentence examples for essential nobility from inspiring English sources
But the themes often lacked an essential nobility, stopping short of transcendence.
Though dressed in T-shirt and athletic pants and endowed with superfluous magical powers, Mr. Kaufmann conveyed Lohengrin's essential nobility through his singing.
Everybody knows the story of how Rick, a cynical nightclub owner whose credo is "I stick my neck out for nobody," rediscovers his essential nobility and sacrifices self-interest to the greater good.
At his best, Hoagland rejects both the cynic's lie that everything superficially beautiful must be rotten underneath, and the romantic's lie that everything apparently ugly must possess some essential nobility.
It reveals greed, ambition, ignorance, folly, suffering and forbearance, all washed with an essential nobility of spirit.The venture would have circumvented attempts by the English king, William of Orange, to stop the Scots from playing their part in international trade.
Surely, he reasoned, the essential nobility of royalty can only be seen in full if said monarch is mobile on water?
Just as the love of Spartacus for his wife and his essential pectoral arrangement – I mean, nobility – gave just enough heft to the nonsense to make it worthwhile, so do the unfolding complications between Oenomaus (the gladiator trainer-to-be), his wife and gladiatorial champion Gannicus.
Agate said the three essential qualities for any Othello were nobility, temperament and the capacity to be pole-axed; and Ejiofor has them all.
It was therefore essential to raise him to the nobility, and in 1782 he became "von Goethe" and moved into the large house on the Frauenplan that, with only one interruption, was to be his home in Weimar for the rest of his life.
In contrast with Alexander, the Seleucids were unable to maintain the good rapport with the eastern Iranian nobility that Alexander had believed essential.
What this means is that whatever morality tale can be spun by the giving patterns for rich people and poor people, it shouldn't turn on the presumed nobility of the needy or essential cupidity of the fortunate.
