Sentence examples for it noble from inspiring English sources

We may hesitate today to call it noble work: but it is certainly necessary, honourable and often heroic.

— Glenn Collins Poetry Foundation: A classic and almost tactile (and recently re-published) Amy Clampitt poem on that edible "oddity" known as the gooseberry (and how to give it noble purpose with thick whipped cream).

This was probably harassment of a sort, too, although — depending on your feelings about Cosby, and about the allegations, and about gender violence more broadly — you might consider it noble harassment.

Shakespeare, most obviously: the reason we consider it noble and elevating for Shakespeare to do what he did - and for people to understand Shakespeare - is that he takes us out of our day-to-day obsessions.

While some, including the heads of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the President's Malaria Initiative, have lauded the Gateses' call as inspirational, others call it noble but quixotic, because the tools to eradicate malaria do not yet exist.

Now, as to why I called it noble, it's designed to help Japan's rapidly aging population cope with the autumn of life.

It served its noble purpose.

One law enforcement official even called it "noble-cause corruption".

Under it, nobles had the right to resist by force any royal decree.

"Who would look at that piece of paper and understand it?" Nobles shrugged.

Nowhere, incidentally, was it nobler than in England, nor more early sanctified and Christianized.