noblesse
Example Sentences
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Mr. Broderick, himself a sometime movie star, brings a slyly funny air of noblesse oblige that dovetails amusingly with Jay’s pompous, blinkered dimness.
They rode to work in Rolls-Royces and adhered to a Protestant ethic of noblesse oblige.
There might be just a dash of noblesse oblige in there, too, a little well-intentioned clemency from soccer’s great conqueror.
From New York Times
His noblesse oblige masked a steely newsman who stood by his publication and industry whenever they were under attack.
From Los Angeles Times
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.
From Salon
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