Jim Taylor, Payne's longtime writing partner, told me, "We're interested in people who are both ridiculous and noble in their dedication to what they're after.
I have always been madly in love with librarians, a noble profession of dedication of the highest order.
If even some of the world's political leaders displayed a fraction of his dedication to noble values, we would live in a much better world.
Smith embodies what he thinks of as Goldman Sachs's noble tradition of customer dedication by throwing a Ping-Pong match to a portfolio manager from the investment firm Putnam.
The book's dedication to a local noble, the Earl of Breadalbane, though wildly self-abasing — "With overpowering sentiments of the most profound humility, I prostrate myself at your noble feet" — is at least written in recognizable English.
They are, the Deetzes put it, "a quasi-mythic group of people who are looked upon today as the founders of America, and whose dedication to hard work and noble purposes gave rise to our nation as we know it".
They also published a collection of his poetry called The Raven and Other Poems on November 19 by Wiley and Putnam which included a dedication to Barrett as "the Noblest of her Sex".
The arts were cultivated in South Asia not only as a noble pastime but also in a spirit of dedication, as an offering to a god.
The noble quest of acquiring all you have through hard work, dedication, love of family, and staying true to your humble Missouri roots.
The dedication towards our mission of providing transportation that can be trusted, to everyone, is noble.
