I really don't think in such noble terms.
To be shocking, to be offensive: the meaning of these noble terms might not be obvious.
Democracy is probably the most important way to express the principle of liberty in the modern times (and in noble terms!).
The speech is also sad because it articulates, in the noblest terms, the Cold War aspiration of winning the hearts and minds of the decolonizing world — the aspiration that came to grief in Vietnam.
In winemaking the term "noble rot" is used to describe how white grapes are allowed to rot on the vine as part of the process of making the highly prized sweet white wines of Sauternes.
In Britain only the reigning peer and his wife are regarded as "noble" as that term is popularly misused, and the rest of the family are commoners, only a few bearing what are called courtesy titles.
The name makes an analogy to the term "noble metals", which also have low reactivity.
His kids take their place in a visual tradition grander and nobler than the term "illustration" can quite contain: they are the distantly related offspring, the great-great grandchildren of Phillip Otto Runge's large-eyed, old-souled Hülsenbeckschen children.
Precious metals are alluring and magical because of their inactivity toward chemical reactions; they are extremely stable and hence are also termed "noble metals".
Fortunately, it was discovered that the signals of Raman scattering could be amplified enormously by molecules contacting with a textured or patterned special noble metal surface, termed as surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) [1, 2].
