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There's a nobility of real, hands-on, dirt-under-your-fingernails work.
It was agrarian, and the means of production and political system was called feudalism, and knowledge was concentrated in the church and the nobility.
By the 19th century, it had become a kind of gentleman's club populated mainly by antiquarians, literary men and the nobility.
This is because Medieval society followed a feudal system that divided the clergy and nobility from the working classes, made up of peasants and serfs.
The connotation of nobility and authority has persisted around words of French origin.
It would have been very easy to mess this one up, but along with the humor, the script was filled with warmth and even some profundity about nobility and class.
Though it is a very different kind of film, the conflict between Scottish commoners and English nobility is front and center here as well.
The characters were all fully developed, not bigger-than-life but just like the people we live among anywhere we are in the world, in Sweden, in Turkey or in America, all completely believable human beings with foibles and nobility.
And that is basically what this story is all about; honor of the common man versus corruption of the nobility.
Gwyneth Paltrow really captures the slightly clueless but well-intentioned rich girl and Jeremy Northam IS Mr. Knightly with his poise and nobility.
I loved Charles Winninger's flat aside on European nobility: "If they're charming, they're fake.
The film explores the notion of nobility from highly contrasted perspectives and it offers plenty to discuss beyond the closing credits.
Shah Rukh Khan portrayed the sacrifice of this man with a certain nobility that really got to me.
Is it because they were stripped of their titles of nobility?
Another of the many film takes on the legend of Robin Hood, from my point of view, two essential things were missing from this version: proper character development and any real sense of nobility.
His willingness to die without further treatment in order to help his ex-wife financially suggests a certain nobility of character.
English nobility has always been known for its idiosyncrasies.
After reading the many comments on this site,I slapped it on again today.Those remarks praising the use of Wagner's music as used in the film were just a little off the mark.This whole film is Wagner minus the arias.Richard would have loved this!There is a near cultish devotion to the nobility of barbarism in it's purest form.Lancelot was heroic ,literally till the armor came off.If Boorman hadn't thrown in the occasional reference to justice for everyone I believe Hitler himself would have financed this film.This is close to Aryan mysticism [without the Aryans].I'm surprised Boorman mellowed to the point he could make "Hope and Glory".Aside from the Wagnerian fatalism,I still love this film!
This is why postcommunist societies do not demonstrate any nobility or disinterestedness that seriously contrasts with the West.
His nobility consisted in never forgetting the lesson of the Rebbe of Vizhnitz, even after he had donned the robe of the man of letters, that he bore the burden of those, adorned in caftan and fur hat, who had wanted to be as elegant as the Polish nobles who led the pogroms against them.
I have known Hasina for nearly 50 years, and I have had many opportunities to appreciate not only her nobility of spirit but also her deep and abiding attachment to a moderate and enlightened Islam that fully respects the rights of man – and of women.
Then the Romanovs, the nobility, and the kulaks.
Only when tensions reached fever pitch did the nobility and merchants realize that the cure would be worse than the disease.
For two centuries, it has been the animating spirit of so many battles for freedom, and has inspired so much courage, resistance, sacrifice, and nobility, and so many beautiful writings.
The Latin original was translated first into French, the language of the nobility, and then into English.
Having witnessed the ravages of the last century, they simply no longer see any virtue, nobility, or utility in waging war, and certainly not aggressive nuclear war.
Nor did they have to honor the rights of the nobility, inasmuch as until the middle of the eighteenth century all nobles were their servants.
In Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche went further, exploring how a superior political system – based on “master morality,” which transcends simplistic notions of “good” and “bad” to develop values from a position of nobility and strength – would look.
According to Machiavelli, a leading citizen is chosen as prince by the favor of his fellow citizens if his authority is perceived as arising from his ability to defend them from the elite (at that time, the nobility).
Such acts of graceful nobility have contributed to his reputation as a kind, approachable, charismatic, and decisive leader – one who has proved to be highly appealing worldwide.
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