noble art
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“The noble art of ballyhoo, which had flourished so successfully in the nineteen-twenties, had lost something of its vigor,” he mourns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
He rejects the modern spectacle of boxing hype and trash talk, instead he advocates for the noble art of self-defence.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
The first is that statecraft, when practiced as Lincoln practiced it, is a noble art.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2022
Not everyone enjoys seeing the noble art of cage fighting cheapened by this kind of behavior.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 9, 2018
Persians have mastered the ancient and noble art of the awkward family photo—in fact, we probably invented it.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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