noble action

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Knausgaard pushes back against those who believe fiction should only portray noble action and sentiment: the professional takers of offense, the mismanagers of ambiguity.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2020

Their noble action has struck chords in our hearts which will vibrate forever.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man of acknowledged generosity and good-nature, however vicious, might do a noble action without having any criminal design.

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Scott, Sarah

Molière, however, remarked that such a noble action ought not to be buried in the obscurity of night, but was worthy of being performed in the face of day.

From Books and Authors Curious Facts and Characteristic Sketches by Anonymous

As a memorial of this noble action, her statue was erected in the temple of Aphrodite at Argos.

From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell