Sentences with phrase «only nobility»

Like assuming that only nobility can produce noble works, These spoiled children of the 60's think the world is about them and their species; it is not.

It is considered to be the most important trail, that only the nobility were allowed to use during the Inca period.

An ancient Tibetan breed, only the nobility were allowed to own these snow - white guard dogs.

In the early 11th century only nobility were allowed to have Greyhounds and they were to be kept near forests the nobility owned.

One legend says that in the days when only the nobility in Ireland was permitted to hunt with the Irish Wolfhound, the peasantry developed the Kerry Blue Terrier for the purpose of poaching.

During this time in history only nobility were allowed to own purebred dogs.

It used to be something that only the nobility owned.

Not exact matches

His nobility comes from his past as a founder of PayPal, but his popularity only grows in this era as he seeks to -LSB-...]

In public affairs at least, the press has aspired to replace not only what used to be the first estate, the clergy, but also the nobility and the commons, the last presumably representing the people.

The failure of our foreign policy to harmonize the dreams of (liberal) dignity and (conservative) nobility must suggest to us that this project can only proceed at home.

One only has to look at L'Enfant's original plan for the buildings and parks of Washington, D.C., to grasp how much attention our nation's founders paid to splendor and simplicity, to virtue and nobility and beauty....

Whereas the genius of the Greeks — so his story goes — was to gaze without illusion into the chaos and terror of the world, and respond not with fear or resignation but with affirmation and supreme artistry, they were able to do this only on account of their nobility, which means their ruthless willingness to discriminate between the «good» — that is, the strength, exuberance, bravery, generosity, and harshness of the aristocratic spirit — and the «bad» — the weakness, debility, timorousness, and vindictive resentfulness of the slavish mind.

to be the only moment of actual nobility in the New Testament, the wry taunt of an acerbic ironist unimpressed by the pathetic fantasies of a deranged peasant.

In this time of waiting, in this age marked only by the absence of faith in Christ, it is well that the modern soul should lack repose, piety, peace, or nobility, and should find the world outside the Church barren of spiritual rapture or mystery, and should discover no beautiful or terrible or merciful gods upon which to cast itself.

It is infinitely comic that a man, moved unto tears, so much moved that not only tears but sweat trickle from him, can sit and read, or hear, representations of self - denial, of the nobility of sacrificing one's life for the truth — and then the next instant — one, two, three, slap - dash, almost with the tears still in his eyes — is in full swing, in the sweat of his brow, with all his might and main, helping falsehood to conquer.

We recognize no titles of nobility: this means not only that the American republic repudiates the notion of a titled aristocracy, but that it does not recognize any special category of rights belonging to a class of people.

Roman nobility as Nietzsche means it wasn't exactly a product of philosophy, but Nietzsche's conviction that preserving nobility was only possible in the contemporary world via philosophy ought to be considered, I think, in light of his profound uneasiness and careful treading around the problem of the «actor's faith» that characterizes «really democratic ages.»

Reston expected great things from the mighty, not only muscle and heart but also some piety and nobility of spirit; and yet when they failed him, as they most often did, he did not damn them but rather foresaw signs of redemption and hope [p. 9].

There was no reason to just through out laws which seemed to provide for a stable, peaceful society so they only really changed the parts that didn't mesh with the republican form of government they set up (ie references to the crown, privliges for the nobility, etc).

The Maya loved their chocolate, and believed it was a drink suitable only for nobility.

Formerly found only in peasant dishes, it gradually entered the culinary repertoire of the gentry and the nobility — dispersing throughout all levels of society so thoroughly that today it would be hard to imagine Hungarian cooking without its paprika component.

Instead of being taught in the open, Kundalini yoga was taught only to royalty and nobility for thousands of years.

Long ago, this soft textile had only been associated with nobility.

«In the end, all comes down to a contest between T'Challa and Killmonger that can only be read one way,» writes Christopher Lebron in a well - argued piece in Boston Review, «in a world marked by racism, a man of African nobility must fight his own blood relative whose goal is the global liberation of blacks.»

If you have Harold Ramis, Jane Adams, Garry Marshall, Chevy Chase, Ben Stiller and Mike White himself in supporting roles, and Kline (unbilled) finding just the right balance between charming nobility and weary pomposity, you have a movie that can be undone only in the making.

This Churchill is quite funny, and that only makes his nobility all the more impactful when it comes time for awards - friendly speechifying.

The animals are overjoyed by his arrival, but his nobility serves only to persuade us that he's someone to pay attention to.

«The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.»

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

History and Facts: Believed to be an ancient breed, the Scottish Deerhound could only be owned by nobility during the 16th century.

Apparently, this was the place where only royals / nobility would enter and rest of the folks go back to Phuyupatamarca and hold.

Only men and women of great nobility were ever able to perceive the consumate beauty of these glorious FMV gems of gamings past, albeit that «beauty» was more like the «distorted pig - face» kind of beauty from the Twilight Zone.

Our men and women in uniform do their duty and pay the price, which only heightens their nobility.

In human color psychology, purple is also associated with royalty and nobility (stemming from classical antiquity when Tyrian purple was only affordable to the elites), which lends explanation to this trend.

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.

Fascinated by the pursuit of the beginning of all things and using only four colours (white for purity, black for the origin and the end of all things, red for blood and life, gold for nobility), Li developed a distinctive visual language, which represented the symbolic image of the universe.