Sentence examples for honorable sense from inspiring English sources

They garner control of the storyline, while public servants with a more appropriate, honorable sense of discretion are punished for it.

His position was conservative in the very honorable sense, of which he remained proud, that it sought to restrict the court to its proper business: applying settled law to known facts.

Colonel Loftis wrote in a letter to his two young daughters before his first deployment to Afghanistan: "My reasons for going to Afghanistan include an honorable sense of duty to help others.

IGN named it one of the best rock albums of the last decade Robert Christgau gave the album a two-star honorable mention and said, "In prog, a good sense of humor means so much".

He notes that "where someone's sense of honorable behaviour has left him unable to act, trickster will appear to suggest an amoral action, something right/wrong that will get life going again".

There are few sequences as tight as this in "The Quiet American," which, as a whole, doesn't quite hang together (Do Hai Yen can do little with the reed-thin role of Phuong), but the movie is never less than honorable, and you can sense the poise and pressure of a director who has finally found something that grips.

By constructing a conflict of army vs. army he has cleaned up the narrative -- his Marines are dirty from the elements but clean in the traditional sense of honorable warfare.

"He's extraordinary, he's honorable, he's common-sense, he's reasonable, he's sane," she said.

Because, if you look at what she's actually doing in the show, it's not really too honorable and it only makes sense if I'm just this total jerk.

Rather, he is expressing spirited indignation, motivated by a sense of what is honorable and fitting for a human being.

You might suppose that my appetite could overcome my sense of what is honorable, but in that case, it would seem that I am not, after all, perfectly ruled by my spirit.