Sentence examples for to a certain nobility from inspiring English sources

Eventually, his shame led to a certain nobility.

Podhoretz wasn't wrong to sense a certain nobility in standing up for "one's own".

Poverty is wretched, but resistance to it brings forth a certain nobility.

There is a certain nobility to Mr Nader's steady refusal to accept the argument that his votes somehow belong to someone else.

There's a certain nobility to their swagger.

He lends a certain nobility to Leporello as well.

There's a certain nobility to the earnest, creatively pure disaster.

"At these tournaments, I'd see these women chasing their dreams, and there was a certain nobility to that," Glenn said.

Melmotte's drive to succeed in a London society that looks down on him as a foreigner gives him a certain nobility compared to the other petty strivers in the novel.

For him, members of parliament must be honest, independent and say what they mean, preferably in the plain rousing English of Milton, Byron and Hazlitt that made his best speeches so exciting to listen to, made his journalism so enjoyable to read and lent his entire public persona a certain nobility.

Mr. Child's dazzling explication of exactly how he concocted Jack Reacher ("To me it was crucial that he should have a certain nobility — which is a strange thing to say about a guy who goes around busting heads as frequently and thoroughly as Jack Reacher does") is as lucid and gratifying as his books are.