I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. From LearnThat.org. [Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), American statesman (26th U.S. president: 1901-09), from speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10,1899.]
Something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Of ignoble (or ungentle) birth. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Even the name of the award, a play on the word "ignoble," is meant to be deprecating. From Wordnik.com. [Announcing the Year’s Winners of the IgNobel Prize | Impact Lab] Reference
He was highly vilified by foes and Nigerians in general for what they described as ignoble acts that questioned his credibility and brought disrespect to his office. From Wordnik.com. [Thisday Online] Reference
"If I use my discrimination, father, I call ignoble what my father calls natural.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bride of Dreams] Reference
Flaubert has said that "the ignoble is the sublime of the lower slope.". From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
Paaker's was, in fact, an ignoble, that is to say, a selfish nature; to shorten his road he trod down flowers as readily as he marched over the sand of the desert. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
The noble man is the gifted man; the ignoble is the ungifted; and therefore we have only to state a simple law in simple language to have a full solution of the enigma of Reineke. From Wordnik.com. [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference
They should not be "ignoble" mechanics or petty traders. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Al Gore joins a long list of past "ignoble" recipients like warrior presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and supporter of rogue regimes Jimmy Carter. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Hypocrisy] Reference
So why the use of the word ignoble in the title?. From Wordnik.com. [Muti] Reference
If this "ignoble" woman won't step down then the matter needs to be referred to the Law Society/Bar Council. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
Boulainvilliers, "ignoble", thus became the owners of fees and, by introducing themselves into the nobility, corrupted it. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
You perceive I have banished those ignoble fears of proctors. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
There are myriad reasons, noble and ignoble, for this omission. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Nights Of The Soul] Reference
If other hands had placed them they might appear ignoble, debased. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Give the thought to the nobler mood, and the ignoble mood will die. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
But this would be an ignoble premise under which these dancers ply their craft. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope] Reference
We loved the nobility of it all and, of course, the deliciously ignoble even more. From Wordnik.com. [My Favorite Year] Reference
What high, heroic experience to educate him, in her long centuries of ignoble peace?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Nor do I care if in the course of serving their ignoble cause they suffer great harm. From Wordnik.com. [Torture's Terrible Toll] Reference
Degrading lofty images by ignoble associations must operate maleficiently on the spectator. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
This may be thought to argue ignoble tastes; but the reverse conclusion would be more correct. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
I shuddered as I thought what I had come to seek in a spot so well suited to my ignoble purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
American and European governments and people, pay heed: you are indirectly funding the ignoble colonial war. From Wordnik.com. [Atomic Energy: Yeas And Nays] Reference
Shung, her husband, was a man of ignoble mind, and had always objected to marrying a woman so far beneath him. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
And generally speaking the admixture with praise of such faults as are not altogether base and ignoble stops envy. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
I know some foreign governments consider the death penalty so ignoble that they won't extradite criminals to our courts. From Wordnik.com. [Pondering Death Row] Reference
One should no more consent that his friend should do an ignoble thing than he should consent to do an ignoble thing himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
Therefore, without scruple, use woman for your pleasure, man for your advancement; but under no circumstances do anything ignoble. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
No scene or station of all the earth that can eye paradise, or catch the gleams of the atoning cross, is truly ignoble or utterly forlorn. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
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