ennoblement

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Though it forefronts Schuyler’s central question — Is the goal of racial progress the ennoblement of Blackness or its disappearance into a “chromatic democracy”? — its tone is jumpy and its storytelling lumpy.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022

What Blank and Jensen’s labors manage to add is a certain ennoblement through art; the actors lend their gifts of supplying interpretive texture to open a window on the soul of helping professions.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2020

The family imported herring and woad in large enough quantities to buy an existing estate and win a kind of ersatz ennoblement.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 8, 2017

We needed only to invent a narrative of cultural significance for our passivity, the minimum required for the ennoblement of our mutual defeat.

From Forbes • Oct. 16, 2014

In common with the artists they look to ennoblement in the Academy, and under the existing order of things have been richly endowed with places and pensions.”

From Olla Podrida by Marryat, Frederick