As a writer ourself, we don't like the idea of a publisher getting out of paying royalties to any author, even on the noblest grounds.
While most of us remained glued to our television sets in a post-traumatic daze, Shipler evidently sought nobler ground.
On one end of the spectrum, they grouse, there's the "ineffable high-concept" stuff, and on the other, there's "your lowbrow bathroom humor," while "the noble middle ground, where once we played," lies fallow.
But the noble middle ground is precisely where you'll find Kraft — who, being Kraft, no doubt set that conversation in a bar to make an oblique joke about falling between the stools.
Cons The Connecticut Light & Power Plant on the banks of the Housatonic keeps the village from being truly pastoral, though the 1914 brick structure has a noble presence and its surrounding grounds are immaculately maintained.
The speech not only covered tremendous ground & was noble, magnanimous, & detached, but it was a speech that contained little words.
Some exotic fruit, grounded by the noble bitterness I more often associate with the whites of Hermitage.
She lay on her side on the ground, gasping, her noble coat covered with dirt and grass.
"The Sphere," battered and scarred in the Sept. 11 attack, placed at ground zero is noble and appropriate, because it embodies the eloquence of our nation under attack.
He praised its mausoleum "that would tempt one to be buried alive" and its 10,000 acre grounds including "the noblest lawn in the world fenced by half the horizon".
