| But that privileged upbringing is supposed to be accompanied by a bit of noblesse oblige. |
| His public image was the personification of noblesse oblige, a wholesome and vigorous young president with a beautiful wife and young children. |
| The dominant culture, masculinist and egalitarian, was opposed to any such display of noblesse oblige. |
| In that sense the Queen Mother retained to her final days a spirit of noblesse oblige that may be increasingly out of fashion in today's Britain. |
| The citizen owns the state and receives from it neither charity nor the generosity of noblesse oblige. |
| We did it so that we could free citizens from dependence on the noblesse oblige of others, which is to say on charity. |
