noblesse

There might be just a dash of noblesse oblige in there, too, a little well-intentioned clemency from soccer’s great conqueror.

His noblesse oblige masked a steely newsman who stood by his publication and industry whenever they were under attack.

It's the "noblesse oblige" posturing of 19th-century industrialists, who pretended that building a few museums made up for grinding underpaid workers into dust.

Given the vast wealth gap between likely patrons and these portrait-subjects, the question creates an inescapable aura of noblesse oblige.

Today, Beek and his family run it out of a sense of noblesse oblige.