As Ryan probably knows my sentiments are unfashionable and hinge on notions like noblesse oblige and the burden of privilege.

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States, not to view arms control as an exercise in noblesse oblige.

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He was a nob, with a sense of noblesse oblige.

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Obama uses a warped logic of federal noblesse oblige to dispense a bag full of goodies from tuition tax credits, to a mortgage refinancing credit, to public works projects.

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Although he celebrated the idea of a functioning American aristocracy as a useful exemplar of industriousness and noblesse oblige, he spent his career lamenting that they had abdicated their responsibilities.

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Because of such absurdities, and the general atmosphere of American noblesse oblige, skeptics have dismissed the movie as an embarrassing crock another contrived occasion for U.S. soldiers to demonstrate their nobility while fighting and killing a great many nasty-looking Africans.

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Only somebody intently attuned to the lives of the parents and their suffering would have understood that the Special Olympics was not just a classical act of noblesse oblige, handing something down patronizingly to the suffering poor, but of self-help as well.

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