Sentence examples for honourable form from inspiring English sources

In 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Literature Prize but refused, stating, "A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honourable form".

He has sneered at the deceased for not taking arms, as if shooting were the only honourable and useful form of social action.

But there is no conversation or accountability in the translation, as honourable an art form as film is, if all people see is the whiteness and the word "slave".

In Lombock – modern Lombok in the Sunda islands – he hears suddenly of a Bugis man running amok, stabbing people at random with his kris, and begins to reflect on the possible satisfactions of mass murder as a form of honourable suicide for the brooding and resentful man who "will not put up with such cruel wrongs, but will be revenged on mankind and die like a hero".

A further split occurred in 1913, when those wishing to include higher degrees, specifically the Royal Arch, left to form the Honourable Fraternity of Ancient Freemasons.

Mr Cameron replied that he would be "delighted" to do so, and added: "It's good to see the honourable gentleman on such good form.

The club that later became the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers was formed in 1744.

Mayo played a central role in establishing Mareeba Hospital and forming its policy, serving as honourable physician at Mareeba, and as honorary responsible officer from 1921 to 1946.

Honour systems only work with honourable people.

Land was the preferred form of investment for senators and other honourable men: farming was regarded as safer and more prestigious than manufacture or trade.

Drummond forms a grudging respect for Peterson, and offers an honourable duel to the death at the end of the Third Round, instead of the usual summary justice that normally befalls members of Peterson's gang.