Sentence examples for noble engaged from inspiring English sources

In recording these small traces, Victoria Glendinning has given us the measure — noble, engaged and quietly passionate — of the man.

The smudge is unique in all his years of neat diary-keeping". In recording these small traces, Victoria Glendinning has given us the measure — noble, engaged and quietly passionate — of the man.

Cups and saucers with paintings of nobles engaged in secret trysts are among many pieces decorated by J. G. Höroldt, Meissen's chief painter from 1720 to 1775.

Although many of the Norman nobles engaged in their own private wars and feuds during William's minority, the viscounts still acknowledged the ducal government, and the ecclesiastical hierarchy was supportive of William.

I commend Gregg Lange on his excellent article, but I strongly disagree with his statement that military service as an officer, "especially in wartime," is an "indefensible activity". In fact, in many cases it is at its essence a noble activity engaged in fighting the forces of Evil in this world.

There have been periods when the West was less than noble, when it engaged in crusades, inquisitions, witch-burnings and genocides.

In a monarchy, neither kings nor nobles should engage in commerce, since this would risk concentrating too much power in their hands.

Fresh out of college in Puerto Rico, he joined the Peace Corps and spent six years moving between the poorest parts of Ecuador and Panama, engaged in noble but sometimes futile-seeming community-development work.

What starts with the noble aim of engaging our attention ends up numbing our senses and rendering us indifferent.

One could not conceive of any action more noble than the one we engaged in.

To this extent, that venerable public servant Robert Winston and that under-rated broadcaster Sophie Raworth were engaged in a noble endeavour.