As an example, Moberg compares the history texts he grew up with in Sweden which represented the Swedish soldier as ever pure and honorable to a letter written by Gustavus Adolphus celebrating the 24 Scanian parishes he had helped level by fire, with the troops encouraged to rape and murder the population at will, behavior that may well have been mirrored equally on the Danish side.
He was a pure, righteous and honorable man who brought grace to the world.
But the Nepalese believe that only those with honorable intentions -- the pure of heart -- reach the summit, he said.
Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable.
Montaigne A Text... Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable,if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Pure fear-mongering sensationalism has, of course, a perfectly honorable tradition in this genre, but these days it seems kind of beside the point.
Suraj's Ph.D. dissertation won Honorable Mention in the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC Prizee for Young Chemists competition.
According to Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, Rabbi of the Western Wall and author of Minhagei HaKotel, a book of laws regarding the Western Wall, burning is a "pure" way to deal with the notes, but burying them is more honorable.
(Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill" movies are the purest distillation of this fantasy, since they imagine a parallel world of honorable criminality rooted in no reality beyond that conjured up by other movies).
Though Snow's intentions were honorable -- Cora was, after all, a complete sociopath who planned to destroy Snow's whole family -- our pure-hearted princess has now taken a life.
He insisted that the law's intentions were pure and took offense at the suggestion that the police in Arizona were ever less than honorable.
