Kunti always solicited for thee high-mindedness and liberality. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The same high-mindedness is evident in many of the contributions. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome to Memory-Weaving 101] Reference
Spare me any more drivel about the high-mindedness of John McCain. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign Devoting One Third Of Its Total Ad Spending To Britney-Obama Spot] Reference
Obama, it is said, has made a certain high-mindedness his touchstone. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: Obama's Run Against McCain Begins Today] Reference
Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics] Reference
Moreover, there is a fatal, effete high-mindedness in the Democrats 'method. From Wordnik.com. [Empathy For The Devil] Reference
As you can see I can only maintain my version of high-mindedness for so long. From Wordnik.com. [we rock these grooves to be self evident] Reference
Even a kind of literary high-mindedness has developed around this new dialect. From Wordnik.com. [Claire Gordon: Txtspk 4eva] Reference
There's a flabbiness in our thinking about schools that poses as high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Wastage In Education] Reference
But its high-mindedness contributed to Carter's failures and paved the way for right-wing reaction. From Wordnik.com. [Sean Wilentz: Who's the Real Idealist, Hillary or Obama?] Reference
This is some serious hardball -- it's obviously all about trying to tarnish Obama's high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Campaign Calls On Obama To Fire Adviser Who Called Hillary A "Monster"] Reference
The beauty of this argument is its apparent high-mindedness, and this, of course is also its danger. From Wordnik.com. [Climate Change Heats Up Again] Reference
Whatever the political impact, the endorsement is evidence of Estrada's class and his high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [An elegant defense of Kagan from an unlikely source] Reference
The issues were -- and are -- a shrewd and typically Clintonesque mix of hardball and high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Bill's Social Security Schmooze] Reference
The tenacity and high-mindedness of President Wilson are qualities which will especially appeal to him. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
All her past of high-mindedness and kindness protected her now like an armour from the smallest suspicion. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
I'm not going to stop making jokes because of some plea for high-mindedness, but your words are duly noted. From Wordnik.com. [McAuliffe: This Race Won't Go To The Convention] Reference
As it turns out, the high-mindedness is not necessarily born of a sincere commitment to set the world right. From Wordnik.com. [Carnival Goes Political] Reference
Today's crisis may give some power to those who believe in the high-mindedness of regulators and bureaucrats. From Wordnik.com. [Capitalism Still Rules] Reference
When he steps this large, this tall, she has to respond/horn in and try to bask in some of the high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary: I'm Glad Obama Gave That Speech] Reference
More than that, those concessions reveal just how lacking in principle and high-mindedness this Prime Minister is. From Wordnik.com. [Brown's Payola Goverment Dips Into the Pork Barrel] Reference
And yet, he continues, "President Roosevelt's high-mindedness did not count for much once the action was under way.". From Wordnik.com. [Waterboarding and Hiroshima] Reference
Nothing, therefore, can be opposed to these emotions, but high-mindedness and valour, whereof I will speak presently. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics] Reference
But I think Daschle has long proved himself an inept hack good at nothing but projecting an image of high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » The Daschle Problem] Reference
The following well attested stories shew their high-mindedness, and one of them their singular chivalry of character. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
I believe him to be about as honest as the great run of the world, with something even approaching to high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866] Reference
Through the form and content of her work, she criticized the high-mindedness of modern art and the course of modern life. From Wordnik.com. [Florine Stettheimer.] Reference
In a sense, McCain, by recognizing the importance of tonight's event, is siphoning off a bit of high-mindedness for himself. From Wordnik.com. [New McCain Ad Congratulates Obama] Reference
But such high-mindedness can be difficult to sustain, and when he fails to do so, McCain's self-criticism can be devastating. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Klein: I Was "Wrong" To Call McCain An Honorable Man] Reference
In spite, or because, of its high-mindedness, it is also the only Nobel prize that can truly ignite international controversy. From Wordnik.com. [The Powerful Life Stories of South Africa's Four Peace Prize Laureates] Reference
Let me take each editorial, one at a time, and briefly analyze the stance of these towering paragons of virtue and high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [From On High] Reference
You can see the appeal of this way of thinking for a conservative — it combines patriotism with a certain kind of high-mindedness. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Transfer on Multiculturalism] Reference
In "The Night Manager" he checks his "I'm not just writing a spy novel" high-mindedness at the door and settles in to have some fun. From Wordnik.com. [A Summer Book Bag] Reference
Thus shall they learn perseverance in all things, the will to advance, high-mindedness and high resolve, chastity and purity of life. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation on Bahá’í Education] Reference
Could it be that Professor Hook disturbs the spiritual comfort of his aesthetic high-mindedness in a way that Professor Riesman would not?. From Wordnik.com. [Fail-Safe, &c.] Reference
In the end the president was spared, a NEWSWEEK reconstruction shows, by a mix of high-mindedness, backroom dealing and senatorial vanity. From Wordnik.com. [Why Clinton Won] Reference
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