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...?
Not exact matches
As a general rule, cheating can thus be defined as taking advantage of someone's trust, an
act that
most believe is, well, less than
noble.
The
most atypical of Flynn's WWII propaganda films, Uncertain Gory begins as a crime thriller about a crook who miraculously escapes the guillotine and seeks aide from a partner in crime, morphs into the latter half of Les Miserables where a an escaped convict is hunted down by a ruthless detective, and concludes with the last
act of Charles Dickens» A Tale of Two Cities wherein a rogue considers a
noble act of redemption by offering to exchange his life to save many innocents from execution.
In a radical
act of transformation, Grotjahn takes the
most casual throwaway material, the cardboard box, and turns it into the
most solid and
noble of art mediums: the pedestal - mounted bronze sculpture.