Even at the ripe age of 98, Dr. Height still exuded class, dignity and an air of nobility.
It is the sense of nobility and morality enshrined in Greek mythology.
Our elected and senior appointed officials, the mainstream media and every progressive in good standing, attach a kind of presumption of nobility to government.
"We have no proof, "he cautions, but the implications are clear: Derived from the playthings of nobility, a bourgeois toy became once more a bauble of royalty.
Both lucid and learned, Lattimore writes with a certain grace, capturing the combination of nobility and speed which over 100 years ago Matthew Arnold famously heard in Homer's work.
The former would actually have some air of nobility.
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Its ruling class its doges, procurators, and ambassadors were drawn from two hundred families whose names, like that of the Quirini, had been inscribed in a "book of nobility" in the early fourteenth century.
Stories sympathetic to virtue, preservation of property and admiration of nobility and of wealth can be told beautifully and to wide audiences, and I suspect they will be more and more in the future.
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Much of the nobility of America lies in our taking our civil liberties seriously.
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He writes of "the nobility of the trade of reporting the truth, the better to inform the readers" and of his faith in "the contribution of vibrant comment to a raucous and well-informed democracy".
She later lost the support of the nobility by marrying the Earl of Bothwell three months after the death of her husband the Earl of Darnley - who some believe had been murdered.
As early as 1328, Parliament acted to limit armed travel, with the notable exception that members of the nobility were allowed to travel with armed retainers, a legal recognition of the privileges of aristocratic birth.
Along the way he offers lively summaries of some of the key dramas of Russian history, including the exploration of Siberia, the tragic nobility of the Decembrists and the unspeakable siege of Leningrad.
Red heels were so important to the Sun King that he passed an edict saying that only members of the nobility by birth could wear them.
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As in imperial times there are no rival and parallel institutions of power in the form of a nobility, an imperial bureaucratic class, a military class or a religious hierarchy.
The Marquess of Bristol, though, had the distinction among nobility of being loathed.
But in some ways Willian epitomizes the current state of flux at the highest level of the game: new money flowing in from the edges of Europe, most of the continent's nobility hunkering down in anticipation of Financial Fair Play, the rest knowing they can pick and choose in what's now a buyer's market of falling transfer prices.
Blinded by the nobility of his intentions, this president has grown comfortable with deception.
In the cross, he concludes, the beautiful gains "new depth and realism, " showing us both the nobility of man and his fallenness.
He was inspired by the messages left on answering machines, by the courage and nobility of their final words of reassurance and love.
That's when I remember the famous Rupert Brooke poem about the nobility of dying for your country and the "corner of a foreign field that will be forever England".
Among the dominant themes are the courage and nobility of Southern soldiers in the face of great odds and the indifference or even dislike of slavery felt by many of them.
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Michitaka Hirose, a professor specializing in virtual-reality technology at Tokyo University, traces Japan's thriving artificial entertainment industry to the art of bonsai, in which medieval nobility honed the reshaping of nature into an art form.
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In an era dominated by power, profit and loss, the author marvels at the nobility of spirit of a community of Cistercian Trappist monks in Algeria, seven of whom ended up dead at the hands of Islamic extremists.
The Mamluks were meant to be a kind of one-generation nobility owing loyalty only to the sultan.
Requested to do so by King John, the turnaround was deeply unpopular, and encouraged stirrings of revolt amongst the nobility.
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The Mudejars, whose craft flourished in the 14th and 15th centuries, were Muslims often working at the behest of the resurgent Catholic nobility.
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