Sentence examples for the noble thing from inspiring English sources

It's not fair and it's not right, but it would be the noble thing to do".

I was told the noble thing to do is to adopt or foster.

Andrea immediately realized the full extent to which Josh had abdicated his grooming duties and did the noble thing — she took them upon herself.

With England already 1-0 down in the six-match series, the noble thing might have been to knuckle down and lose with a bit of honour.

"We've got the pope and every missionary in the world involved in this thing, and they persuaded just about everyone here that this is the noble thing to do".

The home side may think they're doing the noble thing - but their actions have skewed the competition and will result in another team being unfairly relegated, if the authorities allow the result to stand.

It could be the noblest thing you do this Christmas.

Naipaul spoke about how his practice of fiction, which had initially "seemed to me to be the noblest thing", changed when he saw that the great novels he admired came out of stable, hermetic 19th-century worlds that bore little relation to his own, which was "full of flight and unfinished experience".

Before I graduated in the early '90s with a master's degree in biological sciences, I had wanted to proceed to do a Ph.D., which was regarded as the noblest thing to do.

Hence the correct use of this will is our greatest good: "free will is in itself the noblest thing we can have, since it makes us in a way equal to God and seems to exempt us from being his subjects; and so its correct use is the greatest of all the goods we possess" (AT V 85/CSMK 326).

But it is one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad and it is a moral and strategic imperative that we give it our best shot.