Sentence examples for this nobility from inspiring English sources

The collision of this nobility with more debased or alien values forms the heart of three of his best essays.

But even this nobility is undercut when the swallow slips the prince's eye into the hand of a little match girl.

Dozens of simple diocesan curia houses serve as a reminder of this nobility.

"This shows the nobility of what a legislature can do," Assemblymember Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), who authored the measure, said on the Assembly floor.

Without the consent of this territorial nobility, the princes could neither tax nor legislate.

In his new film, "The Son of Joseph" (opening today), the French director Eugène Green, a native New Yorker who has lived in France for nearly half a century, works a variation on this everyday nobility by telling a father-son story refracted through the prism of myth, and not just any myth but the cornerstone of European culture — the Nativity.

Gold is unique among the metallic elements because of its resistance to oxidation and corrosion; its well-known history of usage in coinage and in jewellery perfectly illustrates this chemical nobility [1].

You might say that this agrarian nobility has been hard-wired through practice - with a nod to Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - into San Luis Obispo County's DNA.

Bonelli honours this notion with the nobility and sincerity of his dancing, just as Núñez bestows redemption in its purest and most luminous form.

In the intimacy of this closing scene, the nobility of Violetta's sacrifice and the tragedy of her demise was as touching as Verdi intended.

Still, part of the nobility of this remarkable book derives from Baldwin's reluctance to stain religious faith with too much psychological knowingness.