Sentence examples for noble picture from inspiring English sources

The accent got even more pinched and refined when he played a British doctor suppressing his personal sorrows and martyring himself to Chinese epidemics in "The Painted Veil" (2006), a frightfully noble picture that could have been made by M-G-M in 1940.

Murray presents what he sees as a noble picture of "a man who is holding down a menial job and thereby supporting a wife and children" and so "doing something authentically important with his life," in which "he should take great satisfaction".

A war orphan, Alina Starkov is raised on charity on the estate of a minor noble in Ravka (picture a fantasy Russia of samovars and horse-drawn sleighs), along with her best friend and fellow orphan, Mal.

Wait, I've got it: Picture a noble palace guard, swathed in 13 layers of dry cleaner's plastic wrap, but, you know, proportional.

So, on the one side, we have a picture of noble Greeks, led now by young men who don't seem to have a tie between them, standing up for an impoverished population against a consortium of arrogant men and women in suits who represent prosperous northern Europe and greedy banks.

To me those are entirely understandable, but not at all noble, motives for wanting pictures.

This genre requires stirring music, lots of pictures of noble municipal statuary in big cities, and weighty reminders of the ineffable beauty of the American embrace of progress.

However well intentioned, these approaches to a national music turned out quaintly inadequate - like art noveau pictures of noble savages and happy negroes.

Morgan and Engels were not painting a picture of a "noble savage".

An imagined picture of a noble death held more appeal than a picture of a windswept grave site.

This latest ignoble fight with a noble nun adds to the picture of a Catholic Church in a permanent defensive crouch, steeped in Borgia-like corruption and sexual scandals, lashing out at anyone who notes the obvious: They have lost track of right and wrong.