Sentence examples for ignoble desires from inspiring English sources
"The high ideals of the university as an institution - the pursuit of knowledge and truth," says David Lodge, author of some of the more popular campus novels of the last century, "are set against the actual behaviour and motivations of the people who work in them, who are only human and subject to the same ignoble desires and selfish ambitions as anybody else.
Often, Mr Wilentz explains, the free-staters in places like Kansas were motivated by the ignoble desire to ensure that theirs was a lily-white enclave.
Love, in their bosoms, taking place of every nobler passion, their sole ambition is to be fair, to raise emotion instead of inspiring respect; and this ignoble desire, like the servility in absolute monarchies, destroys all strength of character.
Both its moonshots and its ignoble failings are dictated by criteria and desires as inscrutable and baffling as those of the fabled Bavarian Illuminati.
There is nothing ignoble, in contrast, about a calm and moderate desire to advance one's own welfare, married (as it is in most people) to a sympathetic regard for the well-being of others.
Ignoble history happened in America.
The ignoble effects of the Islamic Revolution.
An found his new assignment ignoble.
There is nothing ignoble about this.
That was neither surprising nor ignoble.
