Sentence examples for ignoble work from inspiring English sources

The system is so deeply flawed that we have traders who are richly rewarded for the ignoble work of shorting stocks, spreading rumors and destroying value.

From 1962, John studied English literature at Nottingham University, where, as a scabrous account in his 1995 prose work Ignoble Sentiments makes evident, he viewed his tutors with – at best – genial contempt.

But something more ignoble may be at work, too.

The problem is that self-justification in a cause no greater than one's own work is invariably perceived as ignoble.

Certainly, however - since nothing resembling the "ignoble Jew" has ever been detected in his work - he was not anti-semitic, and he made no effort to dissimulate the obvious fact that the Old Testament heroes, apostles and prophets he was so often called upon to paint were Jewish.

They're like soap bubbles released out onto the breeze, full of hope and work, and all but a few suffer ignoble ends.

I had that kind of apprenticeship where you are supposed to just work and you are obliged to not ignoble those traditions: the great traditions of the design and typography and decorative arts, the ideas of design and drawing.

It's just that nobody behaves well in "Troilus and Cressida," a work in which both love and war are ignoble pursuits.