Sentence examples for particularly honorable from inspiring English sources
And although the historical Gutenberg is famous for his Bible, Morrison's protagonist is not devout or even particularly honorable: he lies to his creditors and refuses to marry the young woman he has slept with.
Nussbaum, an outspoken advocate of humanities education, called the prize "particularly honorable and meaningful" because it celebrates humanistic contributions alongside scientific advancement.
Trying to pretend you are not feeling pain while you are feeling pain doesn't seem to me to be particularly honorable or spiritual.
Since these words were written, there have been murderous wars almost too numerous to count, wars in which the Germans -- for whom Goethe reserved a particularly honorable role in the coming Weltliteratur -- have played a particularly terrible part.
She, on the other hand, is "in most respects but not all" honorable, particularly in her policy of "not lying," which she explains is "a hard discipline, a practice of spartan ethics too often mistaken for self-righteousness".
The individual members of the Commission are, by and large, reasonably intelligent, not particularly politically sophisticated, and honorable New Yorkers.
His followers thought he was going to give them an honorable war, particularly when he made them promise to follow his lead no matter what he did.
"It's so wonderful to recognize how many alumni are here". Ana Alvarez said: "I was particularly excited to see the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor.
He says that as he thought about the opportunity, he realized that he had never considered government particularly effective or politicians especially altruistic or honorable.
EVER since, modern honors list-building has seemed tame, even honorable, with little controversy over many of the choices, particularly when philanthropy and charity are factors.
Now these cases were particularly excepted by the clause proposed by his honorable colleague; and therefore he presumed there was no good argument against it.
