Sentence examples for noble instance from inspiring English sources

In fact, he tried all types, most of them allergic to abstract thought: a soldier, a sailor, a killer, a marshal, and, in one noble instance, a youthful George Custer, alongside Errol Flynn in "Santa Fe Trail" (1940).

In the letter, he also wrote "The action of Captain Fryatt in defending his ship against the attack of an enemy submarine was a noble instance of the resource and self-reliance so characteristic of his profession".

Mr. Teachout offers noble instances of the genre, but omits perhaps the noblest of all: Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus".

Plead a noble case.

Her devotion to home and family elevates her story from society and celebrity gossip -- of which there is plenty, like the account of the time the boxer Mike Tyson visited the Engelhards in Far Hills -- to something more universal and noble: when, for instance, her son, Harry, dies suddenly at 50 or when she remembers her husband's last summer in Maine before he died in 1977.

However, the person acted for the sake of doing what he believed to be morally right; his action was an instance of noble cause corruption.

Zuckerberg's new creation is the latest instance of the noble pursuit of making the user's life easier by wrapping a shell around existing software.

Meanwhile, others have been moved to call for the smelling salts after Warren failed to deploy their favoured clichés – the sweet science, for instance, or that noble art – in favour of the outrageous admission that his man (Chisora) was in it for the money.