Sentence examples for sometimes noble from inspiring English sources
The grand tradition of printed newspapers, sometimes noble and sometimes shameful, is coming to an end.
His Martian Chronicles – a collection of short stories with a common theme – were a warning about humanity's often terrible, but sometimes noble tendencies.
Pericles, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and the United Nations (UN) have used various forms of economic statecraft to pursue goals that were sometimes noble and sometimes nefarious.
(The bronze dancing Shiva form was an innovation of her workshops.) Also represented are several of the Tamil poet-saints, the sometimes humble, sometimes noble beings whose spontaneous poems became part of the temple liturgy under the Chola.
He may have spent his career attempting to re-create Alabama in the image of his beloved Sand Mountain, and doing so has tapped into Alabama's idiosyncratic, sometimes backward, sometimes noble yearning for self determination.
I admire her willingness to confront sacred cows, but can't help thinking that she sees dark conspiracies where sometimes nobler intentions lie.
Sometimes nobles married Bugis or Makassarese nobles.
(Sometimes this noble pursuit is taken too far – remember Microsoft's Bob? It was the source of many jokes).
The specialized para-cinema has always been a part of the art, and sometimes a noble part of it (as in Orson Welles's primordial film work "Too Much Johnson," which he made to be projected as part of his staging of the play of that title).
Hiaasen's arch potboilers, pitched in the low latitudes of Florida and the lower strata of human evolution, revolve around a few solid observations about the species: in a fallen world, damaged people will sometimes do noble things; and heels will always be heels.
Although the movie is basically a cut-and-dried thriller, it sends an implicit message that blind obedience to military command isn't always the best policy and that a judicious flouting of the rules is sometimes the nobler choice.
