Sentences with phrase «about nobility»

Works like Flea Market Lady (1990/94, below) draw from a rich visual heritage about the nobility of toil.

We need to hear more about the nobility of teaching, the impact that it has and the particular rewards derived from improving the chances of children from poorer and more difficult backgrounds — far greater, I'd argue, than teaching the gilded off - spring of the Chinese or Qatari ruling classes.

Liz Hannah and Josh Singer's script wants to have big speeches about the nobility of journalism as an instrument through which those in power are held accountable, but also wants to be honest about how Washington Post owner Kay Graham (Meryl Streep) and executive editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) were both personal friends of presidents whom the Papers showed were complicit in the long coverup.

There were some notable moments — another great speech from Viola Davis, Diego Luna choosing to speak in Spanish while presenting — but before Streep's speech, it looked as though the night would belong to La La Land and The Crown, a comforting period piece about the nobility of the hereditarily privileged.

Tolkienesque in look and language, the film employs a staggering array of British and Australian character actors, including Helen Mirren, Hugo Weaving, Sam Neill and Geoffrey Rush, who bluster on about nobility and the savagery of war in plummy accents, then take to the skies, with razored claws to tear each other to shreds.

Not exact matches

Let's be clear about this corporo - fuedal world we live in: the CEOs are the kings and queens, the board are the nobility, and economists and other business school academics are their knights errant, imbued with the holy quest of maintaining power for their corporate masters.

But the way it borrows from TRUE GRIT still make it seem as if it means to be the new TRUE GRIT, just as the Coen brothers aimed to replace Portis» message about necessity and nobility with their own.

That is the image our American ancestors saw when they thought about planting the germs of beauty and nobility in their new culture.

This very day the Persian and Median women of the nobility who have heard about the queen's conduct will respond to all the king's nobles in the same way.

If Christianity is skittish at best about familial nobility and not just dignity, as a pridefully creative project of life - defining meaning, is it not remarkable that the most venomous and blatant of the anti-Christian philosophers is so circumspect and muted on the matter?

The key to Greer's interpretation» one that makes her short book on Shakespeare for Oxford's «Past Masters» series one of the finest essays on Shakespeare this century» is her insight that the persona of the Fool in Lear and other plays largely coincides with the self «portrait of the poet in the Sonnets: both persons, Sonneteer and Fool, are self «deprecatory, marginalized, and contemned, yet for that reason are lethally insightful about the flaws of the nobility.

The distinguished historian of philosophy Emil Fackenheim, whose work as a post-Holocaust theologian led him to care deeply about Jewish peoplehood, writes bitterly of Spinoza's slander of Judaism as a betrayal of his celebrated disinterestedness and nobility.

For about six years Nikon appeared to be attaining his goal, but as was to be expected, he met vigorous opposition from many of the nobility, clergy, and monks.

I must refrain from saying more about it until we arrive again at a proper understanding of what the Mass is and what it is for... I am not speaking of the old foundations which were established for the children of the nobility... I am speaking of the new foundations...» There were too many, and as things were at these smaller places their incumbents all got reduced to «anthem singers, organ wheezers and reciters of decadent, indifferent Masses».

Like the disciples taken aback at Jesus's strong words about divorce, we shrink from the full truth and deny the nobility of Christian teaching on sexuality, making excuses for our own failures and for those in our communities.

His heroes include Thomas Mann, Socrates, Spinoza, Dostoevsky, Herzen, and Camus, and he presents them to us here as if they were all members of the same fan - club» agreed in all essentials about the nature of truth, free inquiry, and nobility of spirit.

Chocolate soon became a fashionable drink about the same time as coffee of the European nobility after the discovery of the Americas.

«Genetics of the modern heirs of the Inkas shed new lights about their origins and lineages: The first study on families of documented Inka nobility ancestry shows at least two patrilineal clusters and their origins linked to the lake Titicaca and Southern Cusco region.»

Nice to see an actor so skilled at righteous authentic good man nobility piss that out in a casual loser about face.

It's about the corruption of the nobility of the warrior class by modernity through her relationship with the drunken, wife - beating, deadbeat slave - class husband.

At one point, the experienced mentor quotes Ernest Hemmingway about the lack of nobility in being superior to others.

The character has always had room for a joke or two, especially in Joss Whedon's Avengers movies, but it was primarily about putting his nobility and strength first and then letting Hemsworth's comic timing come about as an added bonus.

Welcome dear nobility, here you can discuss about your favourite books and in general bookish things

There is a nobility about so many breeds that I think they should be given names that recognize it!

Think about the specific shades that represent serenity, nobility, energy, or purity.

But then there's a Tiepolo painting at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, about the triumph of virtue and nobility over ignorance, and I think ignorance is signified by bats...

What I love about all these figures is their statuesque simplicity, their dignity, their nobility and at the same time, their complete and moving innocence.

Like assuming that only nobility can produce noble works, These spoiled children of the 60's think the world is about them and their species; it is not.

Ben Harper TreeHugger interviewed Ben in a four - part series; check out videos about urban renewal, the «nobility of finding the solution,» the importance of clean water (and surfing), and what hugging trees is all about.

And the game seems to be not to debate the substance of his utterances or writings; but to argue pedantically about obscure legal niceties of British Law relating to Titles of Nobility.