Sentence examples for noble means from inspiring English sources

Unlike Mr. Hall, Mr. Noble means to sustain the high, tragic tone throughout.

For him, speakers at his funeral said, winning was merely the noble means to a higher end.

Ruskin valued labor as a noble means of self-actualization.

Altruism is also the reason why so many sympathize with, or even praise, bloody dictatorships that proudly proclaim that the sacrifice of the individual is a necessary and noble means to the goal of the collective good (Rand 1967).

You may remember that Iran launched a satellite last year, and it's caused people to freak out because, you know, can't let other people have access to a technology that may or may not be used for less than noble means.

Note, however, PMC und Drang is actually a useful phrase to keep in mind, as the protagonist in a typical Sturm und Drang stage work or novel is driven to action -- often violent action -- not by pursuit of noble means nor by true motives, but by revenge and greed.

While the aims of the administration could be considered noble, its means were clumsy or ignoble or both.

Of course, preserving the French noble family meant pulling out when the going got tough.

His less than noble birth meant that even when named Master of the Queen's Music -- the most respected position a musician could attain -- he was nevertheless omitted altogether from a book listing the leading English musicians of the day.

Ingenuous was coined in 1599 to mean "noble" and came to mean "frank; candid; straightforward".

The epithet "unready" is derived from unraed, meaning "bad counsel" or "no counsel," and puns on his name, which means "noble counsel".