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How to use noble savage in a sentence

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Or I was cast as the noble savage, with a jewel in my navel and a long black wig.
Under such conditions man is a degraded animal, and the noble savage as great a myth as the elixir of life.
Avoiding the dramatization of the noble savage, or the evil colonialists, he opts for a more subtle evocation.
There's always that troubling liberal idea of the noble savage at the back of one's head, with his lovely ancient ways and his especial rituals.
There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization.
Paul is drawn as a kind of noble savage, a man with a certain animal charisma.
These works sketch out a new image of the Amerindian at odds with the mythical icon of the noble savage running free in unspoiled nature.
The American Indian as a noble savage became quite popular as a theme in painting and in the decorative arts, as can be seen on the cup illustrated above.
Three pictures, three characters: aggressive warrior, noble savage, ordinary guy.
His Kong is noble savage, anarchic beast, wounded kid and unloosed id.
A few contexts in the Chinese classics romanticize or idealize barbarians, comparable to the western noble savage construct.
One was the idea of the noble savage, which held that Aboriginal people were better than Europeans because they were free of the corrupting influence of European civilization.
Such is the vision that prevailed during the Enlightenment, with intense debates between Rousseau and Voltaire about the noble savage and the state of nature.
It was in the cause of liberty that writers such as Cowper and T. Day defended the Noble Savage and attacked the slave trade.
Lescarbot's familiarity with Montaigne, is discussed by Ter Ellingson in The Myth of the Noble Savage.
My position is, that if we have anything to learn from the Noble Savage, it is what to avoid.
To come to the point at once, I beg to say that I have not the least belief in the Noble Savage.
The figure of Hayy is both a Natural man and a Wise Persian, but not a Noble Savage.
Examples from Classical Literature
We clomb till we struck violent cold and an Indian reservation, and the noble savage came to look at us.
I'm afraid they are spoiling him just as the missionaries spoil the noble savage.
In short, like the noble savage of our own wilds, his moral attributes have been greatly exaggerated.
It is written that the noble savage must never express surprise in the presence of the white.
Perceptions ranged from the romantic noble savage or to gort-sy or lustful Circassian beauties.
At least so it seemed, for he stood there and stared like a noble savage.
Creating an idea of the noble savage in his work, his photographs prove quite iconic.
Only now the noble savage has been put into corduroy trousers.
It was not always so, when wild in woods the noble savage ran.
His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, The Antioch Review, Mademoiselle, the Noble Savage and other publications.
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