Sentence examples for quite noble from inspiring English sources

Why teach it wrong?" While Professor Nobl's intent may be quite noble, other advocates have found less dramatic ways to achieve their goals.

It sounds quite noble, but it can never be easily applied in a particular situation.

But she also cautioned that "quite noble attempts to defeat evil may, in sufficiently perverse circumstances, be mistaken for evil".

At 116th Street and Madison Avenue sits a vacant bank, forlorn but quite noble, with an arcade of stout Doric columns.

Usually you are right (gun control and free trade), and when you are not (legalisation of drugs) your willingness to stick to your guns in the face of a mountain of contradictory evidence can sometimes seem quite noble.

John fixes her gaze on the base: "I don't believe in the use of any weaponry, but there is something quite noble about someone who is prepared to lay down their life [in combat].

Somehow I can't imagine Silvio Berlusconi being quite so noble.

"Their night was not quite as noble," she said.

Jameson's white whale is nothing quite so noble as the truth.

Is everyone clicking on her new pictures for quite the noble reasons she intended?

It's a beautifully acted and affecting scene – but the truth was not quite so noble.