At the same time, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which oversees the competitions, came to view the quadrennial choosing of the new games site as a kind of entitlement, a chance to bestow recognition on a city, or country deemed worthy, Sometimes the effect was ennobling: The 1920 Olympics went to Antwerp, largely out of respect for Belgium's losses during World War I.
All of which suggests that the market for decent content and ennobling themes is very much alive, both in the United States and abroad, a comfort to anyone tempted to believe that the age of decency, innocence and old-fashioned values is forever behind us.
In terms of manageability, brick has always had the advantage over stone, but lacked the ennobling attributes that only stone could confer on a building.
Evidently, through more earthly avenues: partly through the inspiring influence of nature but also, essentially and inescapably, through the ennobling agency of their work.
2) Inspire a shared vision: envision an uplifting and ennobling future; enlist others in a common vision by appealing to their values, interests, hopes, and dreams.
His music always strikes these ears as tightly disciplined in form but richly romantic in spirit, a most rewarding and indeed ennobling combination of virtues.
Another omission concerns the development of Kwanzaa by humanist counselor Ron Karenga, who desired a Christmas-like celebration for African Americans that spoke to ennobling character issues instead of supernaturalism.
A revolution that rises up and simply demands the fruits of technological development, unconditionally, not because it's ennobling but because it's fun, not because we deserve it but because they don't deserve to have it to themselves, and because we want it.