high-mindedness

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Recent Examples of high-mindedness Yet somehow, in a medium of heavy copper, Fischl captures the lithe, swaying, physical vitality of Ashe, as well as the high-mindedness of the man who was so committed to social causes. Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high-mindedness
Noun
  • His book actually shows an outlandish idea metastasizing more slowly than that, gaining credibility and respectability over a period of a decade or more.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Their owners get respectability.
    Stayton Bonner, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This deep connection between trees and morality is further evidenced in a trope of Western literature in which humans are transformed into trees, sometimes as an embodiment of sin.
    Ellen Walker, JSTOR Daily, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Rebecca Ferguson stars as Captain Olivia Walker, a senior White House official tasked with keeping the government functioning as panic sets in, while Idris Elba plays a top national security adviser who must balance strategy with morality.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Sitting for a portrait was once reserved for the elite, with kings, queens, and nobility commissioning grand works to immortalize themselves and assert their authority.
    Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Sep. 2025
  • And sure, there’s nobility in that.
    Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Becoming a saint In the Catholic faith, sainthood is reserved for those who have lived a life of heroic virtues, offered their life for others or died for their faith, according to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
    Lauren Costantino September 6, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Was one of Forest’s virtues last season their relative simplicity, which will now be disrupted?
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Perceived fairness is one of the strongest predictors of relationship satisfaction.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But 1976 had nobody — and not even anybody, in fairness, who can feel particularly ‘robbed’ of an England cap.
    Michael Cox, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In an unprecedented breach of law and decency, the president is threatening to send federal forces to our city, in an unironic attempt to combat nonexistent lawlessness in Chicago.
    Ciera Bates-Chamberlain, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Some feel the lines of basic human decency have eroded.
    Annie Heilbrunn, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • This includes displaying traits like conscientiousness; being organized, responsible and disciplined.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Getty Images In the study, researchers crafted job adverts that called for a candidate high in one of six personality factors including honesty-humility, emotionality, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Pheu Thai had put forward its last remaining candidate for prime minister, the former justice minister Chaikasem Nitisiri.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • His work specializes in economic, social, and ecological justice.
    John Scott Lewinski, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025

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“High-mindedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-mindedness. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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