Sentence examples for worthy notions from inspiring English sources

She could belt out a song with a womanly hunger, but these R&B roots were coupled with squeaky-clean lyrics ("How will I know if he really loves me?") and worthy notions ("I believe the children are our future…").

At the same time, he's guided by a single, unshakeable principle — the elimination of slavery — that drives him relentlessly forward, sacrificing other worthy notions on either side, whether ending the war as soon as possible and reintegrating the South into the Union, or pushing ahead to offer reparations that would bring freed slaves toward full practical equality.

The leading candidates spend their time debating questions that were put on the agenda by Republican think tanks, like tax cuts and pre-emptive first strikes, while proposing programmatic variations on old ideas, like universal health coverage and national service -- worthy notions, certainly, but no worthier than they were when Clinton put them forward 12 years ago.

That's a worthy notion, so far as it goes.

A worthy notion, certainly, though it is easy to imagine that after seeing the quality of this first cover, and the writer associated with it, Mr. Orr might soon be getting some extra attention from those publishing houses and editors.

Sandra Bernhard's Twitter-worthy notions start out a lot like anyone else's.

Or perhaps all this amped-up degree-getting just represents job market "signaling" -- the economist A. Michael Spence's Nobel-worthy notion that degrees are less valuable for what you learn than for broadcasting your go-get-'em qualities.

The film's Marquis de Sade-worthy notion of fear masking desire echoes the sly observation made by a con artist (played by Mr. Mantegna) to a psychiatrist (Lindsay Crouse) in the 1987 Mamet film "House of Games": that she wants someone to take her "into a new thing".

It's a quixotic notion worthy of Dr. Lander, who was a participant in the early days of the civil rights movement and took on the ultra-Orthodox community of Brooklyn in the 1970's to promote secular education.

It's a notion worthy of the The X Files: a shadowy world of doppelgangers, existing in eerie counterpoint to the one we know.

I feel I've inherited a worthy task along with notions and needles, one that connects me to the past.