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high-minded
1. A haughty spirit has caused some Christians to be puffed up and high-minded wanting to
2. The person with a haughty and high-minded attitude does not love the church
3. 4Traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
4. However it was the children of these very same 'high-minded' folks who were the instigators of the acts which were smudging the village's reputation
5. Yet their ears remain stopped, they REFUSE to hear! Behold, I am come forth in My power! And in the strength of My might, I shall cause the wicked to hear and the high-minded to listen!
6. YOU ARE PERvERSE IN MY SIGHT! A WHOLE GENERATION OF ARROGANT AND HIGH-MINDED PEOPLE! Says The Lord
7. That the high-minded may be cast face down,
8. Ian O‘Connor, champion of the oppressed and self-styled Stephen Vincent Benet of the Gannett sports pages, might have properly considered a career more in line with the principles of serious journalism rather than (seemingly) wasting his ―enormous‖ literary talents and high-minded idealism as a sports columnist
9. Eleazar, the high-minded and truly noble, as one tortured in a dream, regarded it not all
10. 21 And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed the high-minded and Abrahamic youth did
11. 10 For they were both just and temperate, and manly, and high-minded, and fond of their brethren, and so fond of their
12. In the social democratic world, there are only acting high-minded men and women who work in the public interest and
13. 5 But Eleazar the high-minded and truly noble as one tortured in a dream regarded it not all
14. 23 you spear bearers of the tyrant why do you linger? 24 Beholding him so high-minded against misery and not changing at their pity they led him to the fire: 25 then with their wickedly contrived instruments they burnt him on the fire and poured stinking fluids down into his nostrils
15. 21 And although the framework of his bones was now destroyed the high-minded and Abrahamic youth did not groan
16. 10 For they were both just and temperate and manly and high-minded and fond of their brethren and so fond of their mother that even to death they obeyed her by observing the law
17. Yet during our meeting, she acted like she was the high-minded person who was going to help steer me in the right direction
18. You are high-minded and courageous, and are always willing to stand alone on your own two feet
19. Without especially trying to, you make a favorable impression on people because you are fair, high-minded, and more interested in communicating clearly than in imposing your own ideas
20. Are we greater and stronger than they? "Let us not be high-minded, but fear
21. Initiated by UU-VVU-copies of higher Levels of the same Center, sequentially (according to the degree and depth of implementation of inertial Synthesis) the Aspects transform first into highly-sensuous relations with all Forms of the World, and then into high-minded, spiritual, and harmonious feelings of the Hearty Unity with All, which the majority of “people” tend to regard subjectively as “Divine Love-Wisdom”
22. Now a word as to the Jews themselves, No one can read carefully Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John without beings struck with awe and amazement at the unmistakable evidence of a haughty, corrupt, high-minded, envious and self-exalted people
23. I take it amiss, too, that he calls me envious, and explains to me, as if I were ignorant, what envy is; for really and truly, of the two kinds there are, I only know that which is holy, noble, and high-minded; and if that be so, as it is, I am not likely to attack a priest, above all if, in addition, he holds the rank of familiar of the Holy Office
24. Her exertions did not stop here; for she soon afterwards felt herself so heroically disposed as to determine, under pretence of fetching Marianne, to leave the others by themselves; and she really did it, and that in the handsomest manner, for she loitered away several minutes on the landing-place, with the most high-minded fortitude, before she went to her sister
25. That high-minded type can always find an excuse for breaking his own rules
26. Yes, dear boy,’ he continued, ‘I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met any women-countesses or cooks- who were not venal
27. On top of that a group of high-minded ladies in the town demanded that dens of vice must close to protect young American manhood
28. Her exertions did not stop here; for she soon afterwards felt herself so heroically disposed as to determine, under pretence of fetching Marianne, to leave the others by themselves; and she really did it, and THAT in the handsomest manner, for she loitered away several minutes on the landing-place, with the most high-minded fortitude, before she went to her sister
29. Pugatchéf was apparently in a fit of high-mindedness
30. He helped the young couple for a time, but he was soon obliged to give up, for the high-minded husband refused to accept anything from him
31. There were moments (few albeit) in which he was not even ashamed of having no carriage of his own, now; or of being seen by one of his former friends in shabby clothes; or when, if seen and looked at by such a person contemptuously, he was high-minded enough to suppress even a frown
32. In his soul—in the very depths of his soul—he knew that he had acted in a base, cruel, cowardly manner, and that the knowledge of this act of his must prevent him, not only from finding fault with any one else, but even from looking straight into other people’s eyes; not to mention the impossibility of considering himself a splendid, noble, high-minded fellow, as he did and had to do to go on living his life boldly and merrily
33. As far as we are concerned, there is no reason to believe that power is in the hands of the virtuous and high-minded, rather than in those of men who took it by violence and have held it for themselves and their descendants
34. For surely it would be impossible for a high-minded man to usurp authority by violence and to continue to hold it
35. Cain did violence to Abel, the astute Jacob betrayed the trusting Esau, and was himself deceived by Laban; Caiaphas and Pilate sat in judgment on Christ; the Roman emperors ruled over Seneca, Epictetus, and other high-minded Romans of those times; Ivan IV
36. Yes, dear boy,” he continued, “I have met loving, noble, high-minded men, but I have not yet met any women—countesses or cooks—who were not venal
37. I was discouraged to learn that spinsterhood, which we in Agonquitt regard as a state normal, admirable and even a little high-minded, was frowned upon here
