Their paintings sought to elevate landscape to the level of history painting, which was then considered the noblest form of visual expression. |
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He answered the question in large part by prescribing a diet of the noblest foods to be eaten before the child is conceived. |
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Any ruler who wishes to attain his noblest ends must rouse himself to follow the dictates of virtue in all his public acts. |
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Thus, he lists as noblest the meat of turtledoves, starlings, doves, quails, pheasants, blackbirds, woodcock, partridge, and chaffinch. |
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Our writings serve as the academy's benchmarks, the ethical touchstones for the noblest of professions. |
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She was a dark, unkillable shadow that, despite the noblest efforts, only grew stronger and more immense as the body moved closer to the light. |
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Love is another name for the whole and sole reality practiced by the noblest human being. |
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It's the fruition of one of the core and noblest of American ideals, the free and open marketplace of ideas. |
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The verse has on many occasions inspired the noblest thoughts of toleration and charitableness. |
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Absolute power is a seductively powerful corrupter of even the noblest civil servants. |
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This would not seem to be the noblest form of patriotism, which calls us to look beyond private interests to the public benefit. |
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The heart resumes its role as the source of the noblest virtues that initiate pacific action: Love, Initiative, Tenacity, Realism, Patience. |
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The noblest among you in the eye of Allah is the most righteous both in deeds and in action. |
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And yet this kind of instrument did add something ineffable: its inherent technical ungratefulness played in favour of the noblest emotion. |
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He saw in the right-to-life movement the noblest form of social activism. The two are earnest, likeable, committed and throughly decent. |
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Peacekeeping is one of the noblest professions and it is tragic when a peacekeeper loses his or her life whilst protecting the lives of others. |
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Freedom of speech, that noblest of abstractions, can easily coarsen and shrink into freedom of snort. |
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Friendship is one of the noblest and loftiest human sentiments which divine Grace purifies and transfigures. |
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She had also affirmed that the purpose of a trial is to render justice, and nothing else, even the noblest of ulterior purposes. |
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Washington, unbending in his role as the noblest republican of them all, administered a severe blow to imperial pride. |
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A masterpiece of political reality in its noblest sense: a reality which shelters our joys and maledictions. |
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The collagen is obtained from skins of the noblest fish fished in natural reservoirs and filtered through silk fibroins. |
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This new album offers an aerial music on a background of happily saturated guitars, in a style filled by psychedelia and the noblest metal. |
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You might suppose that devoting profit to the public interest is CSR at its best, or at any rate its noblest. |
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It is true, however, that the conflict of man with his heart is the noblest sort of struggle. |
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I have always considered, and continue to consider, the European project as one of the noblest and most vital political projects of our times. |
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Mediating peace, as happened again and again in the history of the Order, belongs to the noblest tasks of the Friars Minor. |
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The Egyptians used the most perfect of planar geometric figures, the circle, as the symbol for gold, the most perfect and noblest of the metals. |
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Contemporary and the noblest conquest of Man, the horse appears as an indisputable beauty which has fascinated people for thousands of years. |
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It must be, and remain, the site of education in the widest and noblest sense of the term, a place where ethics must occupy a central seat. |
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In his opinion, the noblest criteria of UNESCO should be intellectual, and those relating to cooperation and usefulness. |
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If a fortune is truly yours to make, it can only be had on your noblest terms. |
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We approach Spirit and Divinity with the noblest of intentions. |
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Our noblest people paid with their souls so that we can build a country where we can live in freedom, justice, and dignity. |
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A revolution was carried out, on the basis of the noblest social ideals. |
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But it is one of the noblest things this country has ever attempted abroad and it is a moral and strategic imperative that we give it our best shot. |
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The brand's designers are never short on inspiration in conceiving and creating watchmaking interpretations of lovers' finer feelings: limited editions of ladies' models dedicated to love in the noblest sense of the term. |
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This converter which marries the noblest materials and intentions is an object of desire of a redoubtable precision and its soul is really the one of a musician. |
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In its aims and procedures and the mechanisms for its application the Strategy is consistent with the true values of Arab society and its noblest ideals, aspirations and desire for progress and development. |
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From the first day of my election at the head of UNESCO, I have given a clear and strong undertaking that Education for All will be the foremost priority of this Organization, its most urgent but also its noblest challenge. |
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He gave his life for his convictions, at the service of the noblest cause. |
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The Hidden Hotel finds its origins on a philosophy of love and respect for the noblest materials associated with the craft industry and handcraftsmanship. |
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Here is a fine introduction to one of the noblest careers in twentieth-century environmentalism. |
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A broad central opening reveals a glimpse of the intricate workings of the movement, which is entirely hand-decorated in keeping with the noblest fine watchmaking traditions. |
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Fictional chardonnay swillers, Bridget Jones, and Kath and Kim have a lot to answer for when it comes to one of the world's noblest grapes, and why, for the past 10 years or so, many of us have stopped drinking it. |
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The noblest animals in all of Bayala are unicorns and flying horses. |
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It is its caricature, as well as its noblest expression. Esalen is named after the Esselen, a now-extinct Indian tribe that used the place as their burial ground. |
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As even the noblest domaines of Bordeaux and Burgundy have come to recognise, it is American taste, most notably Mr Parker's, that now rules the world of wine. Is that such a bad thing? |
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While the impulse for war is ever-present, the imperative for peace must guide our enlightened society, and individuals to bring the best and the noblest in every human being. |
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The later years of the 1640s constitute the high point of Poussin's career, when he created some of his noblest figure paintings, among them Eliezer and Rebecca, The Holy Family on the Steps, and The Judgment of Solomon. |
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They are our noblest symbol of excellence. |
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This extract is enriched in unsaponifiables, the noblest elements of oil. |
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If the 'crime against the Spirit' forever marks their authors, the soul sacrifice of the Perfect Ones leaves in our consciousness the luminous mark of the noblest example that ever existed. |
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In my eyes, though, ski jumpers are the noblest sportsmen on the planet. |
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It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. |
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