Sentence examples for for nobility from inspiring English sources

White for purity, green for innocence and purple for nobility.

At times, in a striving for nobility, the performance lost tension and seemed subdued.

Her fine bones bear no hint of patrician ennui; beauty, in this reductive version, substitutes for nobility.

He excelled at malign roles but usually failed at parts calling for nobility, virtue, tenderness, or comic talent.

She describes her purchase as "a true commitment to the preservation of culture rather than a desperate longing for nobility".

We require theater but expect sincerity, seek equality but long for nobility, disdaining what we also demand.

They elected 600 deputies for the Third Estate, 300 for the nobility, and 300 for the clergy.

And consumers are eager for "downward nobility," yearning for more status-seekers' perks.

An artisan of Piccadilly who fashions denture-sets for the nobility pays handsomely for human gnashers.

There was no pig-biting demagoguery, only laurels for the nobility of dying for states' rights and the repeated assertion that the flag and the war never involved slavery, just high-minded constitutional theory.

From the seventeenth century, as domestic architecture for the nobility was increasingly for comfort, rather than fortification, there was elaborate use of carving in carved pediments, fireplaces, heraldic arms and classical motifs.