Sentences with phrase «nobility who»

Grant and Kerr are Victor and Hillary Ryall, nobility who reside in one of Britain's many stately homes.

Forster carries the movie with an effortless grace and professionalism, creating a character of surprising nobility who is the very opposite of the Willy Loman caricature that's been the de rigueur salesman stereotype in movies of the past 50 years.

Suddenly the small town of Vichy became a notable spa destination, playing host to many members of nobility who wanted to partake in the waters.

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.

Not exact matches

In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation (1520), Luther criticized the traditional distinction between the «temporal» and «spiritual» orders — the laity and the clergy — arguing that all who belong to Christ through faith, baptism, and the Gospel shared in the priesthood of Jesus Christ and belonged «truly to the spiritual estate»: «For whoever comes out of the water of baptism can boast that he is already a consecrated priest, bishop, and pope, although of course it is not seemly that just anybody shall exercise such office.»

In fact, the evidence is overwhelming that men (who set the religious tone of the Roman family) were largely responsible for the spread of Christianity among the nobility.

His family belonged to a long and illustrious line of the nobility of the common people, accentuated ever and anon by the appearance of unusual individuals who had distinguished themselves in connection with the evolution of religion on Urantia.

Its author was born in Florence into a family of minor nobility, Guelph in its political alignment and thus siding with the popes in the city's political tensions (as opposed to Ghibellines, at the time mainly banished from Florence, who favored the imperial cause).

The findings fly in the face of the classic account of the life of Saint Patrick, who grew up as a member of the Roman nobility in western Britain and was supposedly abducted and forced into slavery in Ireland around 400 A.D..

The much - noted cool and abstract way of thinking of the oldest Buddhism surely corresponds very well to the figure of a master who fundamentally had no metaphysical nobility that would in any way have elevated him above the other creatures.

Against this morality, Socrates, in Plato's Phaedo, insists that warriors who die for the city out of fear for their own death or the death of others in the city, or fear of loss of honor, are sacrificially trading a lesser fear of dying in battle for a greater fear of shame, loss of nobility, and the loss of the city itself.

Unlike the Marxists, who tell that us in the interstices of each and every item or moment of day to day life one can find the most horrible of oppression and exploitation, the irrelevant agrarians can remind us of moments of nobility and joy.

In Othello's tragic fall» a tragedy deepened by the loftiness of his nobility at the play's outset» we see the fragility of virtue and honor, especially their vulnerability to betrayal by those, like Iago, who seem to be their champions.

Those who were fortunate in seeing him during those eighteen months when he and death sat face to face — who dreaded their first visits and came out gladly inspired with a new faith in the nobility and courage to which rare men can attain — these know that the ugliness and cruelty of death were defeated.

Samuel Pepys (pronounced Peeps) was a successful seventeenth - century British civil servant who chronicled nearly every day of his life for almost nine straight years, from 1660 to 1669, including his business interest in ships and the British navy, his run - ins with the nobility, his merry meals with friends and family, his nightly prayers, and his «towsing» (ruffling up, disheveling) of women other than his wife (the latter two activities often on the same day).

I do this... as a duty of brotherly love, so that if any misfortune or disaster comes out of this matter, it may not be attributed to me, nor will I be blamed before God and men because of my silence... We have no one on earth to thank for this disastrous rebellion except you princes and lords, and especially you blind bishops and mad priests and monks whose hearts are hardened... The murder - prophets [a reference to Karlstadt, Muntzer and all the Schwarmerei] who hate me as they hate you, have come among these people... for more than three years, and no one has resisted and fought against them except me... I beseech you not to make light of this rebellion... The peasants have just published twelve articles some of which are so fair and just as to take away your reputation in the eyes of God... Because you made light of my To The German Nobility you must now listen to and put up with these selfish articles.

Perhaps one could call it a simplification of and variation on the English class - system which had a hereditary monarchy on top, followed in descending succession by clearly demarked classifications of nobility, a complex church hierarchy, a landed gentry, a rising merchant class, simple yeomen, and vast numbers of unfranchised people who fitted none of those categories.

But in my book, true nobility of spirit would have a better idea of who its enemies were.

He has brought in potentially great players, brought up wonderful youth players, developed the infrastructure to achieve great things, fought against the dinosaurs entrenched in the 19th century who are ¨ running ¨ the game, displayed dignity and nobility in the face of unremitting criticism from a small band of Arsenal ¨ supporters ¨ and the media, endured xenophobic pundits, questionable officiating, lean years after the stadium build, ever expanding competition for players from richer clubs and yet stayed true to his principles and still managed to bring in trophies and success over his 21 year reign.

Favouring the people always entails punitive policies directed at elites who too readily convert their socio - economic advantages into political oppressions; policies ranging from publically conducted, popularly judged criminal trials to the violent, wholesale elimination of the nobility.

Civil service clerks who unionize and advocate for a wage structure that enables them to participate in our economy as productive, middle - class citizens are demonized, ridiculed and exhorted to accept their status as serfs and vassals while an economy on the brink of complete failure can't throw enough money at the self - syled «nobility».

A professor in the medical school at the University of Pisa and the father of team member Antonio Fornaciari, he's famous for investigating the lives and deaths of the ancient nobility of Italy, including the Medici of Florence, who lived just 60 km from Badia Pozzeveri.

A women who knows how to wear a shawl can totally change an outfit, giving elegance and nobility.

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.

Hey all, we had an excellent chat with the stars of Belle, the Georgian - era biopic of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate child of a British Lord and an African slave, who was raised into nobility and whose influence helped end slavery in the UK.

Growing his hair long, wearing robes and hanging out on a large wooden cross all day seems to anger his uncle, who believes such behavior unfit for a man of his nobility.

Mae takes the job initially to help fund treatments for her father who suffers from multiple sclerosis (Bill Paxton in his final role) but it's not long before that selfless nobility gives way to a more unhealthy obsession with her own status.

Domhnall Gleeson as Jim Farrell, the handsome young man from Enniscorthy's upper echelon who also tries to win Eilis» heart, is superb and turns in a performance of real restraint and nobility.

Mr. Dosunmu, a former fashion photographer and music video director, and Mr. Young, who also shot the lovely - looking coming - out drama «Pariah,» turn Djbril's politely persistent hustle into something almost melancholic, while Trini acquires a wounded nobility.

When King Louis XIV (Rickman) determines that The Palace of Versailles should be an enviable symbol of French imperial resplendence, he commissions an extravagant reconstruction of one of its gardens under the charge of esteemed landscape artist André Le Notre (Matthias Schoenaerts) who submits the contract out to tender amongst the elite of French artistic nobility.

This may be a lot to ask of a teacher who wishes to start a thoughtful project - based learning exercise, but even a loose connection between these ideals elevates purpose and honors the nobility of the profession, the learning process, and all those who will encourage its implementation.

Khazar royalty and nobility converted to Judaism probably as a result of the influence both of Jewish immigrants escaping persecution in the Byzantine Empire and the Radhanites, merchant Jews who regularly traded in Khazar territory.

Bred in the Imperial Courts of China, the Pekingese have the haughty regal air common only to those who have been born to nobility.

Clumber spaniels appealed to the English nobility, who appreciated this slow - moving but especially keen - nosed hunter that was also an adept retriever.

They became companions to the Spanish colonists who lived in Cuba and quickly became admired by nobility.

They were bred for nobility and loyalty and it was Charles I and Charles II who gave the toy Spaniel its name.

Poodles, especially the smaller varieties, were popular with the nobility, who would mold the little dogs» hair into extravagant styles, sometimes mimicking the ornate pompadours that French men and women wore themselves at the time.

The Warachikuy, officially declared as National Identity Festivity, equivalent to the Inti Raymi, was a warriors» rite, for the young male Incan nobility, who were submitted to hard tests of physical dexterity, risk and courage, to step from youth to mature age.

A long standing favourite of Lombardy's nobility, who built magnificent villas and gardens within the town, Bellagio's popularity as a holiday resort truly flourished in the early nineteenth century, establishing grand new hotels and luxury shops to cater for increasing numbers of visitors.

A longstanding favourite destination of Lombardy's nobility, who built magnificent villas and gardens within the town, Bellagio's popularity as a holiday resort truly flourished in the early nineteenth century.

Köln Cathedral (A Closer Look): Here lie those who once preached at this very cathedral or who were nobility of the town during the old ages.

A former member of the nobility, who is looking for the man who killed her father, in order to exact revenge.

One can scarcely think, before the anti-traditional 19th century at least, of any artist who sprang from the ranks of any more elevated class than the upper bourgeoisie; even in the 19th century, Degas came from the lower nobility — more like the haute bourgeoisie, in fact — and only Toulouse - Lautrec, metamorphosed into the ranks of the marginal by accidental deformity, could be said to have come from the loftier reaches of the upper classes.

As in Shakespeare's Henry V, anyone who stood together that day became nobility.

In 1969, in the catalogue of his first retrospective, at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, he identified his parents as «an ascetic, remotely male, Irish Catholic truant officer, whose junior I am, and a stupid, fleshly tyrant of a woman who had descended from German royalty without a trace of nobility.»

There's a hubris daily double for self - esteem — the nobility of knowing one is battling climate deniers who are also fascists!

«Feudalism» because a class of technocrats, who seem to be above democratic oversight has been constructed, which is able to serve itself and its cronies at the public's expense, justified on the basis of its putative virtues in the way that the nobility was imagined to be, well, «noble» — possessing virtue — prior to the Enlightenment.

Those who do sit there as participating elements of the British Governmental System; presumably each have Titles of Nobility, as does Lord Monckton; which in his case is Viscount.

And I am rather aghast that Americans who call themselves conservatives flock to the banner of someone who flouts his title of nobility.

The connection is that most (although not all) titles on nobility were personal rights incident to being the feudal owner of a parcel of land (the right to say who inherits land from an individual was originally entirely governed by law without the discretion of the owner to give it to someone else, but this was reformed gradually in the «early modern» period of English history and was fully reformed by the Victorian era except as to the titles of nobility historically associated with the land).