Sentences with word «noblesse»

George Amberson Minafer's recurring bit of noblesse oblige at the ball is his assurance to every guest: «Remember you very well indeed.»

Since the impulse towards fairness necessarily discredits the concepts of noblesse oblige, chivalry and grace — see «feminism» — then I can't help but see your third «choice» as being intellectually dishonest.

Drawn by what Andreessen calls noblesse oblige, Whitman recognized an opportunity to revive the faltering legacy of the company that birthed SiliconValley: Hewlett - Packard, founded in 1939 in a Palo Alto garage.She had neither tech expertise nor B2B sales experience, but she summoned a sense of patriotic duty: HP was important, she told employees — to them, to the technology industry, and to America itself.

He did not know northern England and, unlike Harold Macmillan, whose patrician noblesse oblige style went down well with industrial workers, Heath had a tin ear and wooden tongue for hourly - paid citizens.

But what grew within him as a father was something more: not just noblesse oblige, but a genuine interest in how a Tory prime minister could help the weakest members of society.

Baltzell wrote, «Philadelphians have valued noblesse, while Bostonians have placed greater emphasis on oblige.»

Absent title and privilege, Robin shows a loyalty to king and country that is divested of patriotic noblesse oblige and takes on the quality of mandated subservience — and one that could potentially turn on the arrogant entitlement of his «God - willed» masters.

All students» and adults» leadership should be absent noblesse oblige, or the sense of obligation to promote student voice to benefit «lowly» students.

Yes, this applies to only two of the four nominees, but in the case of one of them, the moral noblesse is so pronounced that it makes it rather difficult to address critically.

Fraser's casual noblesse oblige is jarring, her distinction between the haves and have - nots blunt, but her tone differs dramatically from that of today's tycoons who tend to favor more inclusive and populist rhetoric while disinvesting in culture as a public benefit.

«Listen,» he oozed, with a tone of near noblesse oblige, «I don't take these things personally.

This is not conspiratorial but rather a sociological commentary and the ruling elite is not beholden to an electorate but operates with a sense of noblesse oblige.

By this analogy I am a «survivor of the first degree,» and therefore, the principle of noblesse oblige applies to me.

It seems to me that you are invoking concepts of noblesse oblige, chivalry and grace from us in an attempt to get us to sacrifice yet more of our assets for the common good, without giving us any compelling reasons other than «it would be more fair».

Finally, there was this idea of «noblesse oblige».

The speaker tweeted the Department of Transportation, asking with only the faintest hint of noblesse oblige, «Can you take care of it please?

I love a lot of anime, and manga such as no game no life, akame ga kill, deadman wonderland, tower of God, noblesse, Tokyo ghoul and much more but one piece is my favorite

Also, in 2017, it seems (to this reviewer, anyway) that the appeal of tales of noblesse oblige, or of women falling in love with brutish men who initially menace them, has dimmed (or should have).

That's what Chris wants to know when Rose drags him to her parents» posh home, which is full of casual professional - class wealth, including the black servants they keep on from a sense (so they say) of noblesse oblige.

It would have been great to, say, incite a riot as the Slave, and then use the panic of the noblesse to escape into a guarded area as the Lady, only to reveal herself as the Assassin when the moment is right, but a set - up like that can't be generated by the player.

I like the sentiment, but there's a bit of the noblesse oblige in her tone, understandable in that she's a wealthy woman who has supported the arts.

With the invention of photography, painters were released from having to spend their time and talents solely on paintings dictated by the church or noblesse.

From a more practical standpoint, higher tuition fees and a more elite class of law graduate will likely translate into fewer lawyers engaging in public interest practice (unless a newly robust culture of noblesse oblige ascends), and fewer lawyers willing or able to serve in under - served (i.e. rural, humble) home communities.

«Its catch - cry officially trademarked at a moment when the legal profession was being propelled out of its closeted and cosseted sense of noblesse oblige and into a world where law was becoming just another professional consumer service.»

Nothing is likely to dispel the last remnants of noblesse oblige so quickly as the words «Claims Direct».

And since you have been so successful apparently, in your own right as per one of your recent posts, perhaps «noblesse oblige» might kick into play.