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How To Use ennobling In A Sentence

• As a complete man, constant, generous, full of honest courage, as a hardy follower of Thought wherever she might lead him, above all, as a confessor of that Truth which is forever revealing itself to the seeker, and is the more loved because never wholly revealable, he is an ennobling possession of mankind. Among My Books First Series
• This whole section appears to me to be a wonderful revelation of his prison thoughts, an example of what we may call the ennobling power of a passionate enthusiasm for Christ. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
• And at that moment, with the explosion, all of a sudden the ennobling, that is, that routine moment now is captured for all time. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Crisis in the Middle East - October 16, 2000
• Contemporary storytellers have developed an attraction to anti-heroes - protagonists who accomplish important things without the ennobling qualities of traditional heroes.
• But it is not the figure of any earthly personality, however noble and ennobling, which is the object of the Psalmist's contemplation. Brooks by the Traveller's Way
• Other, less prestigious ennobling offices required two generations to serve in office before conferring transmissible nobility.
• Nor liefly thee would I advance to man-ennobling battle or so painful as ” Matthew Arnold
• Is it, therefore, too far-fetched to think that Elizabeth Hardwick’s strength of mind, her fierce intellect, was put to the service of her love for Lowell in ennobling both of them? And Again, Love « Tales from the Reading Room
• For 40 years, American officials have been saying that they have to continue training and arming Indonesia's military because the contact with the American military will have some kind of ennobling effect. Bill Blum's Anti - Empire Report
• Wretchedness is a contemptible state whose very ignobility motivates ennobling improvement. A Week To Go