Sentence examples for simple nobility from inspiring English sources

His language is lyrical and moving, with a simple nobility.

I felt bad about that but at least the epitaph I chose for his stone--- Son, brother, father, stone--- Sonould bestone--- Sonf stone--- Sonity upon him in the eyes of cemetery workers and the occasional passing stranger.

But Mr. Sarsgaard's performance is hardly a simple embodiment of nobility.

Hine was attempting to illustrate the simple beauty and nobility of motherhood, and found an appropriate model in the work of his Italian Renaissance precursor.

It's actually the Countess, with a simple stroke of moral nobility, who turns, with the suddenness of revelation, into the opera's heroine.

Although Hikmet wrote poignant love poetry and elegies to the nobility of simple people, he is best known for long, sweeping works in which he tells his country's history through the eyes of multifaceted characters.

Nobles, both the titled nobility and simple knights, exploited the manors and the peasants, although they did not own lands outright but were granted rights to the income from a manor or other lands by an overlord through the system of feudalism.

"Many of the most revered scientists throughout history were not concerned about financial gain for the simple reason that they were born into nobility and money.

Thus the nobility should have modest and simple manners, since if they do not attempt to distinguish themselves from the people "the people are apt to forget their subjection and weakness" (SL 5.8).

But by mixing an intensely embroidered skirt with a simple pale blue shirt, they produced images of quiet nobility.

But if they were merely didactic — simple indictments of the system or hymns to the nobility of the proletariat — the postwar films of Visconti and De Sica would now most likely be regarded as historical curiosities rather than as artistic touchstones.