"I'm sure you gave him a more ennobling position," I said.

For most people, talking on a cellphone continues to be an ennobling act.

"It's such an ennobling experience to walk under the towers.

Instead it makes the struggle to relinquish drugs all the more ennobling.

So much for the ennobling influence of the sport.

But what about less ennobling censorship, say of an overtly political character?

Farming was to have been the great ennobling occupation in Jefferson's democracy.

Can you imagine a greater, more ennobling adventure than to journey once around our galaxy?

They, too, enjoy hacking off arms and heads, but only in the ennobling context of battle.

Literature in any era, she said, is produced by "the ennobling force of language when used with passion and precision."

Where else but in a topless bar is a grandfather likely to experience such ennobling melancholy?

Again there's a ritual pace and an ennobling score.

In the ennobling arts of literature and music they are great, and this fact provides a key to their character.

In this way, Malory focused on the ennobling aspects of courtly love.

The "ennobling effects of love" in specific have been identified as Neoplatonic.

Dean's work after his campaign imploded, however, was more ennobling and, arguably, more important.

You really can't speak to Calderside of his as an ennobling life and a great example.

Priests were required to be married, because of the ennobling influence of womanhood.

The ground color of this etching is a rich jade green, an ennobling color associated with the East.

Even so, the attempt feels more ennobling than effortful.

With an ennobling wallop, patriotism has since inspired a deeply felt and classless sense of community.

But rather than leave the ennobling lines to a single speaker, Thompson scored his work for chorus, originally accompanied by piano.

Extinction of the breed was avoided when the ennobling society was founded in Sweden.

He said humbly that he'd never had her ennobling influence nor dreamed that she existed.

The same year, her children with the king was ennobled.

The family had been recently ennobled and was not rich.

Is it possible that the king could ennoble a woman in her own right?

I recently asked him whether he thought poverty was ennobling.

And let us not forget that information has the power to ennoble.

Others said that ennobling or not, the name was sometimes a burden.

She was the only one of the king's lovers to be ennobled.

For their efforts, both men were ennobled by the city directors.

Peter the Great, with whom he was a favorite, ennobled him in 1720.

Made rich by his writings, he was ennobled in 1857.

Dying for one person's face does not seem ennobling to its owner, or the dead.

He rose to be a general, and was ennobled as Baron.

In 1679, he was appointed secretary to the board of trade and ennobled.

"The form of the building thus ennobles the corner by focusing on it."

They also have to be much more careful about ennobling criminals.

"But I've always felt ennobled by the name," he said.

He held many important posts, and was ennobled as Duke.

Who does not long for such a cleansing and ennobling emotion?

The family was ennobled in 1639, 1667 and 1736.

They had several children, who were ennobled or married to nobles.

It should surprise no one that tragedy does not, in this case, ennoble.

Then an editor at the Sun accused him of ennobling criminals.

The family was ennobled by royal grant in December 1429.

In 1552, for his services to the King, he was ennobled and granted a coat of arms.

She was the first woman in Sweden to have been ennobled for her own actions (1691).