Set in the late 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, it deals with unrequited love and explores the idea that while there is something noble about suffering for love, lovesickness is a disease, like cholera.
They perceived in her an earnest, if admittedly ridiculous, yearning for something noble.
But they carry themselves with grace, stand for something noble, serve as ambassadors to a better way.
There's something noble in this scramble for self-preservation, like an antelope kicking a lioness in the jaw, but it seems to me that it's too late: the pride is closing in.
They want to rise up and stand for something noble, something righteous, something good.
But he didn't sell his soul for something noble -- like beating the Yankees and going to the World Series.
I feel part of something larger, more significant and enduring than my mortal, perishable, sometimes lonely and bewildered self: a nation for which people have been willing to die, one that stands for something noble, even if it often falls heartbreakingly short of its ideals.
It's possible that it may join the other casualties of pizza, but there is something noble about sacrificing an appliance for one's art.
Its code takes a hard line against such silly devices as the historian's inner conversations with the girlfriend he abjured: " 'Adam,... you're trying to turn your fear of the future, your panic about parenthood and professional failure into something noble that you've done for me.
And let's face it, there is something noble about having a heart for all of humanity.
The counter-intuitive undoing of the negative in taking the pain of the warrior and turning it to something noble is an essential existential task for modern life in the fast lane, I say.
