ennobling

The output is always more than the input: [...] rich and ennobling activities that, while also being pleasurable, reward the intellect and the soul.

Just working to care for yourself and your family doesn't sound particularly ennobling, but it does seem realistic.

And somehow there’s something ennobling about seeing what’s effectively a worldwide collaboration of people working together in this direction.

Instead of ennobling the proletarians, democracy has proletarianized the elites and has systematically perverted the thinking and judgment of the masses.

I think we have better things to do, and that animals helping us do those things is ennobling for everyone.

Some find it ennobling because of what they pay lets them do.

Audiences prefer certain kinds of violence to be conventional, ennobling, and heroic.

A building like the Taj invariably originates in an ennobling emotion like devotion to God, to one's mother and mother country or power and glory.

It feels so improbable that those around me will have that old obvioushbut-secret geek-club feeling, that getting great at computing is radical & empowering & ennobling.

Work can be ennobling, morally beneficial, etc.

Yes, I can set about in life to conquer diseases or to abolish poverty or to alleviate people's suffering and all such things are ennobling.

Being thin isn't some magically ennobling activity, and the only reasons one might prefer weighing less are practical (health, comfort, appearance, etc depending on the person).

“The time is coming when no one will be ready to submit himself to the ennobling discipline of learning music,” he wrote.

I feel like calling VCs "mad scientists" is unduly ennobling.

If we are going to talk about "how can we replace every American job with a robot", we'll have to talk about how replace humans can live ennobling lives of leisures rather than either pushing shopping carts or experiencing empty hedonism.

You can call any of these things immoral, I suppose, but it's not the easy conversation the author wants to have in support of "ennobling", "enriching", and "advancing."