ennobling

The term ennobling and impeccable in Tibetan is “jetsun” (rje-btsun), which has the connotation of someone who has turned his or her back on all things of samsara and is faced totally toward liberation.

A Short Commentary on The Three Principal Aspects of the Path Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang grags-pa 2003

Schally, may I express to you our gratitude for the honor you are doing all of us in ennobling this ceremony by your royal presence.

Roger Guillemin - Banquet Speech 1978

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 2009

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 2000

This, then, is what is known as the ennobling and civilizing influence of war through the ages!

Élie Ducommun - Nobel Lecture 1902

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 1864-1923 1902

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. Alexander Maclaren 1868

Ulin's analysis works only if he first evokes the literary as "ennobling" and then contrasts it with particular (in some cases repellent) books that no one would categorize as "literary" in the first place.

Saying Something 2010

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 Michael Caddell 2005

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.

Archive 2005-06-01 Michael Caddell 2005