As a Freemason, I was told the most honorable word that you can be called in your life is "brother".
One woman drew a rudimentary knight with the words "honor" and "honorable".
Hitchens once wrote that "contempt" is an honorable and underused word.
His reiteration of the word "honorable" emphasizes its unwieldy shape and ironic intent in what is otherwise a staccato pentameter: Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up To such a sudden flood of mutiny.
The aforementioned Roland Burris only qualified for a "Mention" (I can't even bring myself to say the word "Honorable" in this sentence, sorry), for realizing what a lost cause trying to keep his job would be next year, and wisely decided not to waste the time or money losing.
Henry James wrote that the novelist's task, in an imperfect and disappointing world, is to "create the record, in default of any better enjoyment of it; to imagine, in a word, the honorable, the producible case".
By 2010, the Italian state had enough evidence from years of surveillance to suggest that the 'Ndrangheta — whose name, pronounced "n-drahng-ghe-ta," was derived from a Greek word meaning "honorable men" — was running seventy per cent of the cocaine trade in Europe.
In happy contrast to the rancor that has marked our political life of late, her words were soothing: Honorable people can certainly agree to disagree.
But these words, despite their honorable intentions, have not resulted in much noticeable action.
(3) In the words of the Honorable Maxine Waters, "I ain't got time for that".
