noble-minded

Example Sentences

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The idea is regulations are often supported by a surprising alliance of noble-minded moralists and profit-driven cynics.

From BBC • Oct. 22, 2019

As an interpreter, Mørk avoided the noble-minded protocol—the high-school-graduation tread—that is too common in Elgar.

From The New Yorker • May 30, 2016

Peter Auty's José is initially defined as the noble-minded nice guy who is ostensibly different from the rest until, of course, we gradually become aware of the demons of instability and obsession that drive him.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2011

Habitually moral, gentle, tolerant, noble-minded, this was the truest answer, yet he regarded himself quite simply and scientifically as "differing" from faithful folk who "make themselves quite easy by intuition."

From Time Magazine Archive

I knew he was a holy and noble-minded and erudite man, but for some reason I had not credited him with such ‘act offence’ and powers of righteous satire....

From Tennyson and His Friends by Various