Sentence examples for of noble character from inspiring English sources
For Europe's woes have all the aspects of a classical Greek tragedy, in which a man of noble character is undone by the fatal flaw of hubris.
Traditional Chinese society acknowledged the human desire for wealth, but it also warned that, "A man of noble character acquires his wealth by just and ethical means".
The passage describes the "wife of noble character," who works with the wool and flax, brings the food from afar, who "gets up while it is still dark," buys a field, plants a vineyard, turns a profit, and "her lamp does not go out at night" because she's still sewing clothes for the poor and generally being industrious while everyone else sleeps.
Friendships both secure us against risks and anxieties (more reliably than the hazards of a political career) and also provide pleasures and indeed joy: "The man of noble character is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship.
To be of noble character, whatever that means.
A mensch is a someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character.
There are, of course, plenty of shots of noble characters turning their eyes portentously toward the horizon, and much talk of honor, betrayal and the rightful sovereignty of dwarfs over their dragon-occupied mountain.
"Bronck was of no noble character at all," he said, "and in the 19th century people put on airs".
Acts 17:11 - "Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true".
Still, he finds much to appreciate in the history plays: here, it is the weak, vacillating, sometimes contemptible character of King John; the "comic" but forthright, noble character of Philip the Bastard; the desperation and excess of maternal tenderness in Constance; and many beautiful and affecting passages.
The first of these plays was another verse drama, Le Roi s'amuse (1832; Eng. trans. The King's Fool), set in Renaissance France and depicting the frivolous love affairs of Francis I while revealing the noble character of his court jester.
