Word: nobler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Part of the explanation, surely, was the fact that John Paul did not speak in tones of condemnation; nor did he threaten God's vengeance. Rather, he appealed to his audiences to be true to nobler qualities in themselves, telling them in effect you can do better than that, and you know...
Koka likened the choice for black South Africans to Shakespeare's Hamlet, by saying that it is "nobler to take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing, end them...
...physical and mental fitness and talent are means toward large financial rewards, it is only a credit to the game that lures thousands away from harmful pastimes and overall boredom. I only wish there were more Flushing Meadows, because in today's world I cannot think of a nobler financial investment...
Similar anxieties surfaced about the prospect of televising the House Judiciary Committee's hearings on the impeachment of Richard Nixon. Both commercial television and the committee members came away from that encounter looking rather nobler than usual. Commercial TV's record in public affairs, at least as a tactful witness if not as a commentator, has often been good and sometimes distinguished. The networks have risen to large occasions - the McCarthy hearings, assassinations, moon shots. Perhaps a prefigurement can be seen in the radio broadcasts of the Senate's Panama Canal debates. The broadcast of the debates...
SINCE OATES CONSISTENLY tells us that the ugly side of life is the true one, her point in "The Translation" must be that the first translator made the woman seem nobler than she really was. But in some deeper sense, the fat man was incapable of telling the truth. The point of the story should really be that if only we had the right translator to strip away the petty ugliness that encrusts us, everyone would see the nobility that is really inside us. And this magical translator, of course, is he writer of fiction. Why, then, doesn't Oates...