Sentence examples for noble acts from inspiring English sources

The only heroes are the people who perform small, noble acts in the midst of wretched circumstances.

Many of his stories turn on noble acts undertaken for base reasons, or on ignoble deeds that accomplish worthy ends.

At the same time, they articulate some of his central psychological themes: frustrated desire, the secret smallness of seemingly noble acts, the insatiability of human need.

Of course, we seek consistency not only with desirable behaviors, but also with less noble acts: in one study, subjects assigned to wear sunglasses they knew were counterfeit were more likely to cheat during the experiment.

"During all that has happened during the past year I have not heard of a single act of heroism or of self-sacrifice and the noble acts, if any, have been very few".

John Kerry is an American hero and his nomination by President Barack Obama holds with it a remembrance of his noble acts to tell the truth no matter the personal political cost.

Many people thought that he had committed hara-kiri a noble act, possibly, but politically insane.

Where illusion is the law, the depiction of simple and stifled facts is a brave and noble act.

I'm not suggesting that saving lives is bad; it is the most noble act a person can perform.

But instead of commendation for that noble act, Mr. Lieberman received a surprising amount of cynical comments and sanctimonious criticism.

"They make the pardon sound like a noble act so that they can stop people from making their demands".