Sentences with phrase «even noble sentiments»

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.

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The torpor of his mind renders him, not only incapable of relishing or bearing a part in any rational conversation, but of conceiving any generous, noble, or tender sentiment, and consequently of forming any just judgment concerning many even of the ordinary duties of private life.
The idea was noble, right and has endured with even the Tories trying to ape the sentiment — but it was shot down in flames and the rest is history.
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