Sentence examples for noble action from inspiring English sources
He just didn't understand (until Oz) that courage is not the absence of fear, it's taking noble action in the face of fear.
The tragic poet is not so much divinely inspired as he is motivated by a universal human need to imitate, and what he imitates is not something like a bed (Plato's example) but a noble action.
The classical Sanskrit drama was heroic comedy high poetry, noble action, themes almost always taken from the myths a serious, religiously conceived drama, yet in the "comic" pattern, which is not a complete organic development reaching a foregone, inevitable conclusion, but is episodic, restoring a lost balance, and implying a new future.
Insomuch that the judges were at a loss what to do, and several times adjourned the trial, unwilling to acquit him of the crime, which was sufficiently proved, and yet unable to execute the law while his noble action remained, as it were, before their eyes.
Politics is a practical science, since it is concerned with the noble action or happiness of the citizens (although it resembles a productive science in that it seeks to create, preserve, and reform political systems).
Lentricchia + McAuliffe: The critics and writers who say that literature shopuld teach us to be human mean by "human" uplifting, capable of noble action, generosity, selflessness, and above all goodness.
At some point, Sonny Bill's noble actions are bound to affect you, too.
The noble actions of their captors notwithstanding, men were growing feverish and dying of their wounds at an accelerating pace.
"The most successful damage control experts in history -- Lincoln, Roosevelt, Churchill -- matched spin with noble actions and great sacrifices," said Mr. Dezenhall, the crisis manager.
What happens to us when greed masquerades as need, when cries for help become casting calls for chumps, when our most noble actions make us patsies?
Or as Quang Bao, 34, an artist, put it: "You can find everything in America -- the most noble actions and the most inhumane.
