Sentence examples for some nobility from inspiring English sources

Jaffrey invested some nobility in what could have been a thankless, clichéd role.

The attempt here to find some nobility in the man seems unsupported.

A classic underachiever, Miles is also a good man and a figure of some nobility.

As in the author's other fiction about life among the working class, the protagonist is a classic underachiever who is also a figure of some nobility.

I couldn't make the case to myself that Brian had literally died defending his country — soon Rumsfeld himself began denying that he'd ever called Iraq an immediate threat to the United States — but I sometimes tried to see his death in ways that gave it some nobility.

He is both a beast of burden, a hard worker who is laid off, and a man of some nobility and patience who labors doggedly to use his severance pay and the sweat of his family to buy a ruined boat, repair it and turn it into a dockside restaurant for fish couscous.

On the road, stalled in the choking traffic, he complains to his mistress, "If events as painful as defeat and mass exodus cannot be dignified with some sort of nobility, some grandeur, then they shouldn't happen at all!" As usual, Némirovsky offers no comment on this burst of folly; she allows her characters the liberty to display themselves on their own, for better and worse.

Allan Glassman, stepping in on short notice for Siegfried Jerusalem, sang the part instead of rasping it, and in the process revealed some trace of nobility, some tremor of moral compass, at the heart of the wormy tyrant.

At his best, Hoagland rejects both the cynic's lie that everything superficially beautiful must be rotten underneath, and the romantic's lie that everything apparently ugly must possess some essential nobility.

Over the years its residents have included some minor nobility, a member of Parliament and one John Trotter, who stored goods for the military in the house and, in 1795, was caught cheating on a delivery of army greatcoats.

Some inborn nobility about her.