Sentence examples for lofty character from inspiring English sources

The men of the town find the schoolmarm difficult but are awed by her refined and lofty character, and generally do what she tells them to do.

Unlike other recently discovered early Christian testimonies, this one is not of an especially lofty character: Malchus seems as interested in his own troubles ("My innards make noises when all else is quiet") as in Jesus'.

"To the south the city takes on a less lofty character," it read, "where many of its historical buildings are dwarfed by the soaring Wall Street structures and the signature twin towers of the World Trade Center".

In this landscape, the sparse grove suggests the severe political climate for Chinese scholars under the Manchus, and the single pavilion evokes the lofty character of Ni Zan, a fourteenth-century scholar-painter whose life and works had become emblematic of resistance to foreign rule under an earlier foreign dynasty, the Mongol Yuan.

For their enemies were plainly making great preparations and a powerful league against them. 2 Now there was among the Sabines one Appius Clausus,37 a man whose wealth made him powerful, as his personal prowess made him illustrious, but who was most eminent for his lofty character and for his great eloquence.

Nothing for instance can be more joyous than the dance and chortle of peasants, or more spirit-stirring than the "Hungarian March," while the chorus of aerial spirits, inspiring the sleeping Faust with dreams of Margaret, exhibits a richness and delicacy of imagination of the loftiest character.

Sentimental comedy had its roots in early 18th century tragedy, which had a vein of morality similar to that of sentimental comedy but had loftier characters and subject matter than sentimental comedy.

It became fashionable to give free rein to one's impulses, and many had hoped to acquire a reputation as a high-minded intellectual of pure character and lofty ideals by opposing established norms and rituals.

He and his autobiography reflect that beyond color and beyond culture is the lofty plateau of character and courage.

Just as successful is her even-handedness in attributing to both lofty and lowly characters an obeisance to the unspoken rules that govern the age they inhabit.

Despite Heyward and Gershwin's lofty aims, the characters in "Porgy and Bess" are, after all, poor and superstitious; they speak in an uneducated dialect; the hero is a cripple and the heroine an addict.