Sentences with phrase «even noble»

This I see as a very honorable, thoughtful, and even noble act.

Whether they stack the deck on funding, or give a pass on paper reviews, or gloss over their friends» failings, or use public, ad hominem attacks on people that have a different view... to people like Gleick these things are acceptable, even noble, because they are trying to save the world.

We think we know so much about a breed until we get all the facts;) These are all adorable dogs, even the noble Chow!

Bringing bricks and mortar booksellers into the ebook revolution was always a brave — even noble — effort by Google, given how little online presence and expertise booksellers had.

The concept of jihad has become synonymous with terrorism but when Imam Shamil, an honorable, even noble, character uses the term, he is describing the defense of his homeland, not aggression or acts of terror.

All of this undermines teacher - student relationships, undermines the quality of teaching and learning, undermines student learning, and undermines the notion of teaching as a desirable, even noble, profession.

What makes Thanos a fascinating villain (as so many Marvel villains are) is that he sees his motives as pure, right, and even noble.

They might be even noble whereas the U.S. president's response hides a callow, callous, inflexible mindset driven by a moral certainty of the right - wing Christian kind.

You're left with admirable, even noble, wreckage, but wreckage it is.

The import of this point is to show a tendency in our culture to rationalize the wish to die or the intention to bring death to others as something natural, even noble.

A tacit assumption is that PowerPoint computer presentations are merely a means to an end, a value - neutral tool used for innocent, perhaps even noble purposes: enlarging text for the hard of seeing; reducing the demand for and thus the production of printed materials; and bringing younger people, who spend much of their lives in front of screens — TV, computer, cell phone, PDA — into worship.

That is a worthy, even noble goal, within limits.

All because it flies in the face of this person's lofty and even noble expectations for you.

In other words, do we use coercion to achieve even a noble end?

Rather than using his acute grasp of manners and speech to demonstrate their fatuity, he asks us to acknowledge beneath and within the clichés and banalities of small - town life — including that of the church — enduring and even noble sentiments.

It's easy and even noble to attempt to put ourselves in another's shoes but dangerous when take that empathy and turn it into our own narrative.

Even the noble king could perceive the difficulty of such a method, for he was not without insight into the human heart, and understood that the maiden was at bottom deceived; and no one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it, but is as if enchanted by a change in the outward habiliments of his existence.

He didn't teach this to be wimpy or even noble, but to rise above our natural, addictive attachment to reactive violence.

«I was inspired by how she felt that scientific research was a deeply worthwhile, even noble, calling and that she also had a family (two daughters) and was a devoted parent, as well as an iconic researcher,» recalls Blackburn.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

Man, self - sufficient and wholly autonomous, sole master and disposer of his destiny and the world's — is not this an even nobler concept?

Evil Days of Luckless John 2006 Classic adventure game fans often criticize the modern state of the adventure genre of becoming uninspired and tasteless, to the extent that even the noblest efforts to recreate the sheer beauty and humor of these classic adventure games have translated to bitter gaming experiences.

While no one likes to think in such cynical terms — injuries are not commodities, after all — we do want to encourage lawyers to remember that even the noblest professions must mind their bottom lines.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, if it's something you believe is intrinsically honorable or noble, it provides a form of ego - defense that helps you persist even in the face of criticism or failure, and may also help win others to your cause.

Even with its current troubles, Barnes and Noble has somewhere around 20 % of the U.S. e-book market while Apple, despite its court problems, recently said it also had 20 %.

Growth may sound like a noble goal, but be sure to think through how next - level growth will affect your bottom line, and even your quality of life, so you can set goals that work for you and your business.

Everyone I spoke to told me even though it was a noble cause, it would never go mainstream and it wouldn't sell because boys like building and girls like dolls — and that you can't fight nature.

«We still have the same question: What was the purpose of this,» Noble said when we spoke by phone on Wednesday evening.

She even offers CMIT Solutions kudos in her «7 Reasons Why Noble Purpose Matters.»

It becomes unlikely that a reader will then purchase a Nook and switch to buying e-books through Barnes & Noble, even if that company is slashing prices.

«We still have the same question: What was the purpose of this,» Noble said when we spoke by phone Wednesday evening.

In the early years of Amazon, Jeff Bezos was clear that he needed to get ahead of rivals such as Barnes & Noble and Toys R Us, even if it meant chaos within Amazon.

This is the sign of a noble heart — to aim at high things, measuring one's effort, not by one's own strength, but by the strength of one's nature, and to envisage enterprises beyond the accomplishment even of those equipped with heroic courage.»

Here, our rather noble willingness to endure unhappiness (as an integral part even of a moral life dedicated to freeing us up most to the pursuit of happiness!)

First, there is no personal risk from embracing someone with neurofibromatosis so the act is not nearly as noble, or really even comparable.

Dedicating your life to living with lepers was even more noble.

Some noble women literally worshipped him, even keeping his dirty undergarments as relics.

Yes, part of that is how tragic it is that the polis» own degenerating dynamics might need war, and part of that is that even the war - oriented polis can not truly honor its noblest warriors.

Your comment is a good example of a non-believer not attacking faith based people but expressing the qualities of a non-believer which can be just if not even more noble.

In becoming man, Christ made the link between matter and spirit that most of us feel to be the truth about ourselves, even the atheists among us: our spirit strives toward what is noble and good, yet finds itself mired in what is paltry and second rate when not destructive of self and others.

Nietzsche's scorn for «modern ideas» made a profound impression on his admirers: «This book [Beyond Good and Evil],» he said, «is a criticism of modernity, embracing the modern sciences, arts, even politics, together with certain indications as to a type that would be the reverse of modern man, for as little like him as possible: a noble, yea - saying man.»

The freakish prosperity of the eighties permitted all sorts of excess in terms of salaries for beginners, overstaffing cases, and even interior decoration — as law firms, like the nobles of San Gimignano, tried to outdo each other in ostentation.

Even in the noblest spirits perfect control is absent.

What about the belief that since this world is temporary, it doesn't really matter — it's all ashes and dust, corrupt and lost so even the most noble acts are ultimately without merit — God will sort it out in the end...?

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Rather than aristocratic images of noble birth, we are presented with a laborer's wife, from a poor village, the status of which — even among Jews — is suggested by the phrase, «Can anything good come out of Nazareth?»

For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth; but God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

If we are struck by Francesca's courteous speech, we note that she is also in the habit of blaming others for her own difficulties; if we admire Farinata's magnanimity, we also note that his soul contains no room for God; if we are wrung by Pier delle Vigne's piteous narrative, we also consider that he has totally abandoned his allegiance to God for his belief in the power of his emperor; if we are moved by Brunetto Latini's devotion to his pupil, we become aware that his view of Dante's earthly mission has little of religion in it; if we are swept up in enthusiasm for the noble vigor of Ulysses, we eventually understand that he is maniacally egotistical; if we weep for Ugolino's piteous paternal feelings, we finally understand that he, too, was centrally (and damnably) concerned with himself, even at the expense of his children.

The danse macabre in the Middle East, the Israel - Palestinian conflict, the torrent of diabolic weapons showered by the U. S. for the use of Afghan rebels who first hung noble President Najibullah on a street pole and then indulged in mutual massacre flooding with blood the snow - white mountains (the sombre slaughter, even amidst natural calamities, is still unabated) and other holocausts baffle description.

What made St. Francis so influential was his extraordinary originality: the son of a rich businessman who renounced his wealth and slept in pigstys while retaining the courtliness and gentility that were noble attributes of his era; the anti-establishment figure who founded a great religious institution; the man of radical poverty whose followers were not permitted (even if they had wanted) to imitate his utter rejection of worldly goods; the man of the Bible who never owned a complete one; the author of the first great literary work in Italian dialect, the «Canticle of the Sun,» who was steeped in the jongleur tradition of French poetry and song; the naïf who moved the heart and enriched the religious imagination of that great realist and exponent of papal power, Innocent III; the child of the age of Crusades who sought not the conquest of the Muslims but their conversion.