Sentence examples for ignoble intention from inspiring English sources
In an editorial, L'Osservatore Romano, the official Vatican newspaper, accused "the media" of having the "rather obvious and ignoble intention of attacking Benedict XVI and his closest collaborators at all costs".
Unprincipled ambition always is. Infinite malleability is its own vice because it's infinitely corruptible by others of ignoble intentions.
Harlow, the great pre-Code icon, so much more deliciously, sanely, sexily comic than the tiresomely overrated and neurotic Marilyn Monroe, shimmers and vamps and lays it on the line about her ignoble intentions -- and absolutely wins our hearts even at her most wicked.
Ben Johnson, the weather-beaten, conscience-stricken henchman who alerts Alan Ladd to Jack Palance's ignoble intentions in the 1953 classic Shane, had been playing the third ornery old cowpoke from the left for decades before he got a chance to shine in The Last Picture Show, which won him a best supporting actor Oscar in 1971.
And the Republicans' actions belie their ignoble intentions; their rhetoric reveals a dark ambition which most Americans -- even those who from their living rooms tow the party line and carry the party water -- would normally reject.
There is nothing ignoble about this.
An found his new assignment ignoble.
But was the end, perhaps, more ignoble?
This is not entirely ignoble, by the way.
Gin was seen as ignoble in 18th-century England.
