nobleman

Example Sentences

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But no role subsequent to that of Kurosawa’s proud and foolish nobleman who descends into madness returned him to the international spotlight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

Everyone arrives at Ardross Castle with the desire to be either a Faithful or a Traitor and makes their case to Cumming’s devious nobleman.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025

The director emphasizes that Orlok is a folk vampire, “not a suave dinner-coat-wearing seducer,” but rather “a corpse, more similar to a zombie. And what would a dead 16th-century Transylvanian nobleman look like?”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2024

For decades, these were known as the Elgin Marbles, after the Scottish nobleman who started the trouble more than 200 years ago.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 28, 2023

A Styrian nobleman called Baron Hoffman, who was impressed by Kepler’s work and liked the mathematician, was also a Counsellor of the Emperor, Rudolph II, and had met Tycho.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin