Sentences with phrase «with nobility»

And most of all, they make me laugh... Because, they look like little lions, with this nobility in their acts, and their look... and when it happened something funny to them (when they fall or they jump or they run madly...), it's always MUCH more funny!

In most developed countries across the globe, personages have a propensity to be more independent and self - reliant as they adopt several financial instruments in order to live their lives with nobility, dignity and comfort.

In the Soviet Union too, the totalitarian authorities imbued Socialist - Realist Art with a nobility and grandeur to better propagandize their political agenda.

Although traces of the breed's ancestors have been recorded back to almost 2000 B.C., these dogs really became established with the nobility of France around the seventeenth century.

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 earliest known pictures of Bearded Collies appear with nobility in the late 1700's.

These little dogs were extremely popular with the nobility; as time went on, Spain and Italy became the centers of dwarf - spaniel breeding and trading.

The breed came to England in the 17th century, quickly becoming as popular with nobility there as they had been in their Italian homeland.

Principals especially should rise above the token gestures of the past and speak out on this issue with the nobility and the transcendent passion that dignify the crucial role they fill in our society.

Ragnarok, the third and easily the best entry in Marvel's least - loved solo series, succeeds partly because it does something its predecessors never quite could: It makes an ageless space god with the nobility of King Arthur and the bodacious abs of a supermodel look like an underdog.

Suffused with nobility, she declares the slaves, including Danny Glover as a bow - tied patriarch and Issach De Bankolé as a scowling rebel, to be free, and she turns their former overseers into indentured workers.

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

Velvet, known for its physical properties and stunning looks, has always been a hit with the nobility.

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).

The shadows and horrors of what happened since 1492 are there, along with the nobility, the heroism, the achievements, and the continuing lessons for our day.

Negatives also assume that human nature is not capable of behaving with nobility.

Not exact matches

Let's be clear about this corporo - fuedal world we live in: the CEOs are the kings and queens, the board are the nobility, and economists and other business school academics are their knights errant, imbued with the holy quest of maintaining power for their corporate masters.

In fact, dying with obscene wealth represents unused potential, and signals that you could have used more resources to make the world a better place while you were here on earth (on the other hand, it also signals that you produced more than you consumed while you were here on earth, which has a certain nobility to it).

But the way it borrows from TRUE GRIT still make it seem as if it means to be the new TRUE GRIT, just as the Coen brothers aimed to replace Portis» message about necessity and nobility with their own.

Resistance to wrong doing must be done with a spirit of nobility, of patience, of understanding, in addition to refusal to back down.

That's the paradox of it: the nobility of knowing what you're going to see and expose yourself to and the moral hazards that you're going to experience in undertaking your duty with honor and with pride.

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).

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.

It generates great loyalty among its readers, many of whom discover the book in adolescence and are inspired by the nobility, heroism and beauty with which, unusually in modern literature, the book is charged.

In some societies the line of division was not drawn so clearly between men and the animals, as between the nobility and the peasantry, the latter being treated with much the same attitude as the animals.

As the natural end of temporal existence in Narnia, death was always to be anticipated and accepted with as much nobility as one could muster.

But Strauss judges it best not to get philosophy mixed up in the articulation of personal love or hopes of universal salvation associated with love; instead he prefers to keep sacred law separate from the nobility of philosophy, Jerusalem (i.e., Judaism) separate from Athens.

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.

Lord Chance, the world's oldest nobility, must be put back on the throne of metaphysics, with the consequent ascendency of innocence, accident, and wantonness (TSZ 186).

• The confusion of «success» with sheer wealth by individuals, businesses, and corporate boards, which empties economic life of its vocational nobility and inculcates a counter-ethic of beggar - thy - neighbor competition that's a grave danger to markets and a threat to the capacity of free enterprise to help people lift themselves from poverty.

There is no activity so humble that it can not take on an intimidating nobility as soon as it is associated with citizenship.

The key to Greer's interpretation» one that makes her short book on Shakespeare for Oxford's «Past Masters» series one of the finest essays on Shakespeare this century» is her insight that the persona of the Fool in Lear and other plays largely coincides with the self «portrait of the poet in the Sonnets: both persons, Sonneteer and Fool, are self «deprecatory, marginalized, and contemned, yet for that reason are lethally insightful about the flaws of the nobility.

One wonders whether, had there been more European Catholic aristocrats with his real nobility, the old order might have survived.

He acknowledges that, before the partitions, Poland was the most tolerant state in Europe toward the Jews, with its kings and nobility giving economic benefits and legal protections.

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.

Here is the basis of Augustine's view that virginity is the highest human state, celibacy next, and that there is a scale of nobility in relation to continence after bereavement, with renunciation always receiving the highest honour.17

Long before Christ, the Jews in Alexandria had felt the nobility of Plato's theistic philosophy and had labored to blend their religious traditions with the best thought of Greece.

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).

Of the nobility and a refugee, formerly infected with the scepticism which had been rife in his class, by a succession of personal experiences Chateaubriand had been led to return to the faith of his youth.

It sought to prohibit the chronic fighting of the nobility over the week - end and during Advent and Lent as hallowed by events associated with the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

If the German Appeal to the Nobility, written to the propertied, pedigreed, privileged and powerful in the German lands with their varieties of inherited responsibilities, created consternation, the new Latin piece written to the educated of all Europe brought the realisation that nothing less than a religious revolution was afoot.

Graffiti appeared: «Unhappy the people whose king is a child», and a great blustering ill - written threat, signed with the revolutionary sign of the Bundschuh, the sturdy peasant's clog: «We are 400 of the nobility.

Emser attacked Luther's Appeal to the Christian Nobility, and Luther replied with To the Goat in Leipzig.

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.

Victoria is a name that brings with it refinement and nobility, as well as glamor, of course.

Purple: This color is often associated with royalty, nobility, and power.

Breastfeeding was typically shunned by those of the nobility, with babies being given to wet nurses for care after delivery.

In the war's fire, the last great medieval holdovers had melted away, taking with them czars, emperors and the petty nobility of dozens of states.

Placards placed behind the mayor and police officials outlined what the three days would focus on — beginning with topics like the «nobility of policing,» ensuring officers have the right «heart set, mindset, skillset, and toolset,» and the importance of not pre-judging people on day one.