Sentences with phrase «of noble character»

-- Be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to become angry — kisses of an enemy are less valuable than wounds from a friend (i.e., a friend tells you the truth)-- a wife of noble character, who can find, she is worth far more than rubies — above all else guard your heart, for it is the well spring of life — as iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another — a gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh answer stirs up anger google them for the author — best CEO ever

Generally considered dogkind's finest all - purpose worker, the German Shepherd Dog is a large, agile, muscular dog of noble character and high intelligence.

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For support, complementarians often turn to the «wife of noble character» found in Proverbs 31.

The subject of a twenty - two - line poem found in the last chapter of the book of Proverbs, the «woman of noble character» is meant to be a tangible expression of the book's celebrated virtue of wisdom.

I think its important our president be one of noble character and humble heart.

Not exact matches

When, in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., declared his «dream» — that we Americans should one day become a society where a citizen's race would be an irrelevancy, where black and white children would walk hand - in - hand, where persons would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character — this seemed to many Americans both a noble and attainable goal.

Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.

The story of Ruth exploits some of the noblest qualities of human character — tenderness, loyalty, compassion, love — without anywhere sounding noble, without anywhere becoming cloying.

• the fortitude of not going with the crowd; 7 • the fortitude of knowing that caring for the world is a nobler task than that of mastering it; • the fortitude of knowing that a successful woman is not the same as a successful man; • the fortitude of realising that money is less important than character; that you are worth more than your salary is worth; • the fortitude of preparing yourself for a worthwhile commitment and sticking by it (self - worth is empty without self - commitment); • the fortitude of being proud to aim at being a woman of character, and to resist the pathetic envy we are all capable of towards a man or woman with more power but with a weak character.

As death spares no human, good or bad, the life of this great noble character had to come to an end.

Of all the noble characters in this picture, my eyes will always drift to the cheeses.

He paid tribute, nevertheless, to the quail — «a bird of character, a noble bird.»

«The script of the inspirational coming out story of struggle is somehow not so noble when there's a character in that story who was deceived, and used — often for many years.

Lying deep beneath those noble, complex human qualities we call character, these scientists have found, is the mundane, mechanical interaction of specific chemicals in the brains and bodies of developing infants.

Atticus may have stolen the hearts of so many parents because of its old noble feel, or because of the reintroduction of the classic character, Atticus Finch.

Edgar's noble persona, too, is twisted, with Tom Brooke giving both him and his peasant alter ego, Poor Tom, a thoughtful performance — a simple, slightly ethereal, lolloping Pete Doherty of a character.

Keeping Barnes and Noble at Bay Plaza adds to the dignity and character of our community.

I'm very brilliant, clever, nice looking, healthy and fun loving young man.Above all, some of the character traits that l possess includes; good sense of humor, good and noble manners, very transparent and genuine and the ability to concentrate and to understand - To mention but a few..

I am calm and noble man, open mind, faithful character, friends of everyone, I can commit myself seriously with any woman who really makes me see the life of another way, there are many levels of happiness and to achieve the highest level of contentment you need a happy family life with a good stand...

A reboot of «The Lone Ranger» that metaphorically drags this noble story — and literally drags its title character — through a steaming heap of horse droppings.

Despite its apparent compromises to noble finger - wagging (initially) and requisite fist - pumping (eventually), Waugh has fashioned a sturdy character - first entertainment out of Snitch.

Indeed, both offer more impressive work than Waltz; I suspect the Academy may've looked his way because he gets the most noble character of the three.

Captain Brittles is probably one of the most noble and courageous characters, certainly in terms of military movies.

Three of the year's strongest female performances threaten convention, the one that says females are usually cast as supporting, loving, noble characters who give of themselves in the service of the male lead.

Connor Paolo does a fine job as our noble, if kinda one - note, hero, and character actor Nick Damici (Late Phases) displays all sorts of bad - ass anti-heroic coolness.

Every tale needs some kind of good guy, and lucky for Woz, he seems to have been chosen as the Noble Character in this film.

Snyder managed to kneecap the most quintessentially noble of superheroes, Superman himself, as an aspirational figure, though maddeningly other characters still talk about him that way.

As they sweat and bleed the characters all end up filthy and caked in a cocktail of dirt and bodily fluids and nobody is allowed the opportunity to play the noble hero.

This film is not the trite, easy character study of a righteous liberal crusader or noble do - gooder, quite the opposite in fact.

Ashley is a troubling character not because she's a dingbat, but because she might not be a dingbat — and Madeleine's quest to bring a disadvantaged southern artist into the literati spotlight is mired in problems with exploitation and a system of patronage that sees virtue (for themselves or their subjects) in noble savagery.

Certainly, Depp plays Tonto as no one else could, borrowing the look of the character from Kirby Sattler's painting «I Am Crow» by interpreting a bird flying directly above the head of a noble Native American as a strange sort of headdress.

And the character of the author depicted here — a cameo I won't give away — felt a bit one - dimensional and obvious (his noble decision in the third act felt completely uncharacteristic).

Dragonfly's characters are stock, its scares are telegraphed (the script by committee mistakes «eye - rolling» for «tight»), and before it's done, it dips into a shocking Mead - era noble savage syndrome complicated by more conventional exploitations of race and illness.

Blank stares and expectant pauses punctuate much of the dialogue to demonstrate just how off Amanda and Lily are, and while we certainly aren't meant to view their pursuits as noble, we are encouraged to empathize with them with a capacity that the characters themselves lack.

A character like Marina touches on the film noir, which is one of the noblest genres.

Nonetheless, Alice did commit some major missteps — such as a noble, but misguided, attempt to flesh out the source material mythology and over-abundance of quirky CGI characters and effects — and, unfortunately, Oz seems to be repeating many of them.

A noble failure from a noteworthy filmmaker, Joseph Cedar's «Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer» — the unofficial winner of this year's «Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)» Award for the most fanciful title — mines a classic storytelling tradition in order to spin a darkly comic parable that often feels as unkempt and intolerable as its title character.

The feature debut of writer - director Andrew Renzi, the film introduces a type of character we don't normally see on film: one who is both noble and, at times, as wildly inappropriate as a character in an Adam Sandler movie.

Nostalgic references to classic Hollywood — like that «Presented in CinemaScope» title card in the beginning and the two main characters» first date at a screening of Rebel Without a Cause — don't excite me as much as they used to, and nor does a movie that, to my mind, simple - mindedly posits the John Legend character as a kind of villain for daring to think progressively about jazz — an entirely noble and necessary endeavor, whatever you may think of the music his character actually creates — rather than remain rooted to the past like Ryan Gosling's character does.

Originally created by Jack Kirby, Lee was skeptical of bringing a surfboard - riding hero to the pages of Fantastic Four, but eventually came around to the idea and helped Kirby develop the character as a noble hero who sacrifices his own humanity to defend him homeworld from Galactus.

For all of his noble ideas, however, Mamet repeatedly uses the idea of honor as a crutch to explain away his characters» actions — even when they make little sense.

The dialogue immediately preceding Diana's noble charge, in which the well - meaning but decidedly mortal Steve Trevor tells her to forget about the plight of villagers trapped on the other side of No Man's Land, reinforces her character's guiding moral principle — to protect the innocent — while her calm, confident stride as mortars explode all around her wordlessly conveys both her courage and naïveté.

A character like Pappy would be the cartoon nemesis of a simpler tale, a problem to be dealt with or ignored, but to Rees he's a symptom, a festering boil that nobler characters like Jamie (or Henry, who quietly agrees with much of his father's way of thinking) can't lance.

The plot and character development of Sabine de Barra, which may have initially appealed to Winslet, owing to a feminine victory over patriarchal social structures, is wholly abandoned and the narrative evolves into a love affair between a noble man and a subordinate woman, an affair that is implausible, farcical and simply too convenient.

Okay, we're veering away from total geekery for this one, but as one of our favorite non-geeky characters, we had to share this Thanksgiving - appropriate video featuring C.J. Cregg (played by Allison Janney) from The West Wing following through with her noble duty of choosing the turkey to be pardoned by the President of the United States Jed Bartlett (Martin Sheen).