How To Use Exaltation In A Sentence
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For it is hard not to agree with Lucio that the Duke is a ‘seemer’ manipulating the other characters for the perpetuation and exaltation of his own power.
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With a 33 km mountain run behind me and a 67 km white-water kayak ahead, I felt pain, dread, exaltation, jubilation, anticipation, fear and joy - give me more emotions.
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State of exaltation or excitement of the spirits or passions.
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Once, indeed, he guides her hand to transcribe in a book the words of her exaltation, the Ave, and the Magnificat, and the Gaude Maria, and the young angels, glad to rouse her for a moment from her dejection, are eager to hold the inkhorn and to support the book.
English literary criticism
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An exaltation of larks had assembled on the roof of Francis's hut.
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The good doctor's single shotgun blast did in the exaltation of larks.
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Should Bible translators be concerned about such things as the diction, rhythm, exaltation and beauty of the language that they use to represent God's word?
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The exaltation of liquor, however, appeared only to intensify his characteristics: his face became more lugubrious and melancholy; his manner more ceremonious and dignified; and, erect and stiff in his saddle from the waist upwards, but leaning from side to side with the motion of his horse, like the tall mast of some laboring sloop, he "loped" away towards the House of the Lost Mission.
Maruja
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Put beauty back into the contours of our hearts, and we may find that pain is as essential to our experience of life as exaltation, for with being in beauty, as with being in love, we risk getting hurt.
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Media pundits and think tanks hailed this popular participation as a breakthrough for democracy - a triumphalism, as Fraser shrewdly notes, that mirrored American exaltation at winning the cold war.
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But even viewed miraculously, Jesus' ability to endure torture in The Passion works against any spiritual exaltation that the film wishes to inspire.
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I felt a sense of delight and exaltation just by reading the contents pages, and looked forward to reading in English some of my childhood favourites which I'd only ever read in their original Bengali.
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Her case is misdiagnosed, and she finds herself swept into vertiginous cycles of self-loathing and ecstasy, paranoia and visionary exaltation.
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This range of moods, from exaltation to the slough of despond, is entirely appropriate for the 24 Preludes and Fugues — a kind of expressivity rarely matched by the Russian pianists who recorded excerpts from the work, from the overimposing monumentality of Sviatoslav Richter to the dignified, restrained lyricism of Emil Gilels.
From Despair to Delight
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Structurally amorphous, there's little for the musical mind to hold onto, but, then perhaps that's the nature of an exaltation of larks.
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It demanded accelerated exaltation, accepted no instant without pregnant meanings as in epic, tragedy, comedy, or films.
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Both religious and sporting imagery feature an array of symbols, insignia, emblems and motifs: saints and heroes; churches and stadiums; pilgrims and fans; exaltation and celebration.
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I've long been an avowed enemy of benchmarking, because at its heart it amounts to exaltation of imitation.
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Bounties of God are no doubt His trusts which should be spent for the good and exaltation of the community and nation.
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The emptiness of it all is to be hidden under the esctasy – contorted faces, twisted limbs, saints, whose only true passion is the dread of their own engulfing doubt, which they try to drown in sickly exaltation.
Jenny: A Novel
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The other women hated her for her momentary exaltation above them; only the children still admired her as one who had undoubtedly "canoodled" with a man "a-going to be hung" -- a daring flight beyond their wildest ambition.
Stories in Light and Shadow
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Take two iconic Sinatra-sung songs—"One for My Baby and One More for the Road" and "My Way"—one a loser's lament, the other a winner's yawping exaltation.
Battered and Bruised, It's Better to Lose
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There was the arcanum; each yellow grain conduced to my exaltation, and the sum of these grains was the sum of my mightiness.
The Dignity of Dollars
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Fortunately, your Venus in Capricorn is strongly angular and in the exaltation of the ruler of your midheaven, Mars.
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But I am communing with Handel, for example, who experienced the most powerful mystic exaltation as he wrote the Hallelujah Chorus, imagining himself in the presence of God.
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All three composers, self-torturing, high-minded isolationists in their own ways, strove for heightened exaltation.
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Somewhat to his shame, private concerns overshadowed even the exaltation of the hour.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success" (Winston S. Churchill).
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What is rapturously sung in the threefold invocation of the seraphs is the infinite exaltation of
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
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Many of these, including tiding of magpies, murmuration of starlings, unkindness of ravens, and exaltation of larks, are poetic inventions that one can trace back to the fifteenth century.
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Since Mercury is solar when matutine and lunar when vespertine, it should surely have different exaltations for the two phases, one in trine to Gemini and the other in sextile to Virgo.
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He watched the wheel whirling past the number and experienced a burst of exaltation.
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The feeling of exaltation at expressing oneself, the satisfaction of giving free vent to their thoughts and the sense of power generated by creativity do wonders for developing their personality.
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a strange exaltation that was indefinable
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At this moment, that which fills my mind is not eloquent words of glory and exaltation, but rather, weighty thoughts of bigger responsibility, greater humility, and deeper self-reflection.
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I'd never known such exaltation and transcendent joy… (I was) released from my body and a pure spirit partook of a loveliness I had never conceived.
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All around his steadfast melodies, Davell Crawford was a tsunami of improvisation: surging ostinatos and florid filigree, tremolo chords and keyboard-spanning glissandos, excess as exaltation.
Jazzfest: More from The Stomp - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
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And revelling in such dreams, she saw not the agony which overspread her listener's face as he read her thoughts partly awrong, and believed her content to throw herself away forever, in order to gain some temporary exaltation as a wealthy Roman's plaything.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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Abjection, evacuation and ecstasy all commingle in this terrified exaltation.
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Chapters, XIX. and XX., close the work, with a dissertation on the exaltation of Christ, and the mode in which he discharges his mediatorial functions in heaven.
Christologia
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Like the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures, the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent exaltation.
The Society of the Spectacle – Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb)
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When our friend Ted was here over Thanksgiving, he pulled my copy of An Exaltation of Larks off the shelf and was surprised to see, as people usually are, that the James Lipton who wrote it (maybe "compiled" is a better word) is, in fact that James Lipton.
A Rationality of Teds
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An easy moment of pause or exhaustion is followed by initial speed and exaltation, all lending a stable, self-confident and mesmerizing rhythm, which follows what Yang has said about how life should be set in the ambiance of jazz.
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'But danger," Danlo said, `is just the left hand of exaltation.
THE BROKEN GOD
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And I watched as a nation drank deep from that very dark elixir of American nationalism ... the flip side of nationalism is always racism, it's about self-exaltation and the denigration of the other.
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Religious exaltation and fear of a relief force impelled the crusaders, with no siege equipment, to a doomed attack on 13 June.
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It seems to me exaltation of character, dignification of labor, material prosperity, leaving social equality to take care of itself, makes up the best solution of the negro problem.
Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures
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Schelling, for example, affirmed evil's reality as a principle of darkness manifesting in the grandiose exaltation of self-will.
Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden
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He could feel it, as exaltation and quick euphoria, the spray of endorphins through his brain's neurons.
THE BROKEN GOD
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This musical tone poem alternates between lyrical moments and spirited interludes that suggest an energetic exaltation of larks ascending and descending as they fly.
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For Rothko the experience of beauty is ‘the experience of rightness, reflected in an ideal of proportions, and as an apperception of harmoniousness, whose recognition produces an exaltation.’
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These chosen souls, He inundates with celestial gifts, -- revealing glimpses of His glory and beauty, transforming them into Himself, so as in a manner to divinize them, and even sometimes imparting visible external marks of their sublime spiritual exaltation.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
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Mono John looked up, and was smit with the glow of her exaltation.
The White Hour
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The city was swept up in the mood of exaltation.
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In it, mystery and exaltation, wild humour and super - terrestrial beauty, tragic despair and ecstasies of joy are all galvanized into an organic aesthetic unity.
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Through sleepless nights, Lady Ogram brooded over the contrast between her own exaltation and the hopeless level of the swinking multitude.
Our Friend the Charlatan
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In their criticisms of the papacy, and in their exaltation of royal power, they laid the foundations on which later thinkers drew.
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The flashing of torches and the beautiful radiance of blue lights (technically, Bengal lights) upon the heads of our horses; the fine effect of such a showery and ghostly illumination falling upon our flowers and glittering laurels [Footnote: "_Glittering laurels_": -- I must observe that the colour of _green_ suffers almost a spiritual change and exaltation under the effect of Bengal lights.]; whilst all around ourselves, that formed a centre of light, the darkness gathered on the rear and flanks in massy blackness: these optical splendours, together with the prodigious enthusiasm of the people, composed a picture at once scenical and affecting, theatrical and holy.
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
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He could feel it, as exaltation and quick euphoria, the spray of endorphins through his brain's neurons.
THE BROKEN GOD
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First of all men of his breed was he to enter this lone Northland village, and at the thought an exultancy came upon him, an exaltation, and his followers noted that his leg-weariness fell from him and that he insensibly quickened the pace.
IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH
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Paris's Place de la Concorde of 1755 became Place de la Revolution during the Revolutionary period with expression of joy and exaltations freedom and equality soon giving way to a reign of terror.
Paul Gunther: Tahrir Square-- Where Social Media Found a Footing: Traditional Urban Plazas as Crucible of Change
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Even its popular arts, once the wonder and delight of the world, have decayed; there was a time, within the memory of some of us, when American popular music was full of exaltation and pain and wit, and appealed to grown-ups.
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After a while, the exaltation fades, but not the happiness.
MOON PASSAGE
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Exaltation is when the natal Sun is conjunct the natural ruler of the sign that the Sun is resident in.
Exaltation in Astrology
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In Matthew 15: 1-9, Jesus also had quite a bit to say about the excessive exaltation of anyone's religious ‘tradition.’
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The Army is ready - the new personnel system and the exaltation of technology by the Army leadership set the stage and tone to make this program work!
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Seduction continues to appear to all orthodoxies as malefice and artifice, a black magic for the deviation of all truths, an exaltation of the malicious use of signs, a conspiracy of signs.
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Note the capitalization of ‘Racial Groups’ --the categories of Otherness implied by this umbrella term are themselves subsumed by the exaltation of the metacategory.
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It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardors and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces. 4
Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang
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The contrast must necessarily lie between such expression and that where the serene and blissful exaltation of the situation sets the predominating tone.
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During the game itself Mileson remained very composed and anyone who thinks that he is just on some kind of moneyman's ego trip should have seen the look of sheer exaltation when Gretna's equaliser hit the back of the net.
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One aftermath of ecstasy is more ecstasy, even wilder than before- ‘this feeling of exaltation.’
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He described an initial, short-lasting episode of motor symptoms characterized by immobility, posturing, and waxy flexibility that ended in a hyperkinetic state; a second stage of melancholia often with stupor; a third stage of “exaltation and rapid and pressured speech” “a certain pathos-filled ‘ecstasy’ this entrains a compulsion to talk in oratorical style”; and, finally, after recurrent exacerbations and remissions of states of passivity and exaltation, an end stage of dementia.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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7 In the words of Mauriac, it is this risk of death that would bring Malraux's experience of life into sharper relief, even to a state of exaltation.
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After a while, the exaltation fades, but not the happiness.
MOON PASSAGE
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A little different from the audience exaltations and ovations of the Republican primary debates!
Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D.: Cheers Or Tears? What Confucius Would Say About Texas Executions
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There was the arcanum; each yellow grain conduced to my exaltation, and the sum of these grains was the sum of my mightiness.
The Dignity of Dollars
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What is sinful is the exaltation of pleasure above the proper ends of marriage, which are union, fruitfulness, and the healing, exaltation, and perfection of the spouses.
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The exaltation of female desire and sin and of the nightlife of clubs and cabarets clearly symbolized Mexico's new (post-World War II) cosmopolitanism and the first waves of developmentalism.
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In the scenes from the Apocalypse or from Serbian myths and legends, drama and exaltation prevail.
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It's a kind of recording of the daily frustration and the daily exhilaration and the momentary exaltation of the fact of living itself.
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We are therefore indebted to materialism, to positivism, to naturalism for this unhealthy and often disingenuous reflowering of religious exaltation.
Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
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Above that would come trochaic verse, and we should rise to higher planes of exaltation as we read the anapæstic, or cretic, or bacchiac.
The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
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She told him that this extreme exaltation had been described as manifesting itself through nineteen physical symptoms, including the shedding of tears, a tremor of the body, horripilation, perspiration, and a burning sensation.
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Her argument that the church's very keystone is control of female reproductive power by the exaltation of virginity as spiritual ideal is well attested by the appellations given two items of the maiden dance uniform.
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Such alternatives run smack into the moral exaltations that influence U.S. policy.
Magic and Mayhem
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They are those which exhibit the nature in question naked and standing by itself, and also in its exaltation or highest degree of power; as being disenthralled and freed from all impediments, or at any rate by virtue of its strength dominant over, suppressing and coercing them.
The New Organon
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Somewhat to his shame, private concerns overshadowed even the exaltation of the hour.
DARE CALL IT TREASON
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The dominant idea was to be the glorification of horticulture and the exaltation of agriculture.
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It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.
The Trail of Meat
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The automatic monitor in SERES2000COD in strict observance operates the biggest limit in procedure an accuracy for developping the function that it have, the data of exaltation.
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Nor did he care; there was a feeling of exaltation creeping through his mind like some excellent drug, and after the pain of the cider-press, that was enough for him.
The Waste Lands
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Their rising greatness, to the merited disgrace and death of Piers de Gavestone and his profligate minions! and their final exaltation to the highest honours of the British peerage, which they have now enjoyed for five hundred years, to the strong hand and unblenching heart with which they have always welcomed the assaults of their most powerful enemies!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829
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An immoral man is condemned by those of virtuous character, but an immoral woman is considered abominable even by immoral men; conversely the praises of a decent and modest woman in the case of a decent and modest man become exaltations.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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But in your horoscope Saturn in exaltation in the 8th is aspecting guru and this may affect the beneficial results that should come from guru's position.
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It advanceth and magnifieth all these properties of God, and gives all his attributes their due exaltation.
The Sermons of John Owen
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There was the arcanum — nay, arcana, for each yellow grain conduced to my exaltation, and the sum of these grains was the sum of my mightiness.
THE DIGNITY OF DOLLARS
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I will be singing her praises with hyperbolic terms of exaltation, extolling her to the highest degree, her aura will be raised to mythical proportions.
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'But danger," Danlo said, `is just the left hand of exaltation.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Thou couldst take me by the head, as thou didst Habbakuk, and carry me so; by a chariot, as thou didst Elijah, [24] and carry me so; but thou carriest me thine own private way, the way by which thou carriedst thy Son, who first lay upon the earth and prayed, and then had his exaltation, as himself calls his crucifying; and first descended into hell, and then had his ascension.
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
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It crushed them into the remotest recesses of their own minds, pressing out of them, like juices from the grape, all the false ardours and exaltations and undue self-values of the human soul, until they perceived themselves finite and small, specks and motes, moving with weak cunning and little wisdom amidst the play and inter-play of the great blind elements and forces.
The Trail of Meat
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The somnolescent reader is only too ready to spare himself the poetic exaltation in which the old bard must be read, if we would really see the divinities, and grasp the spirit of their dealings with man.
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary
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Scropps never could, under the most improved system of campanology, be jingled into any thing harmonious, I have no doubt I, like my great predecessor Whittington, might have heard in that peal a prediction of my future exaltation; certain it is I did not; and, wearied with my journey, I took up my lodging for the night at a very humble house near
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829
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Yet here too there is the stain of intellectual improbity, and it is perhaps all the more mischievous for being partly hidden under the mien of spiritual exaltation.
On Compromise
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On this, the feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, we also celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum coming into effect.
2nd Anniversary of the Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum: Call for Priests
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They lived in what we called satya yuga which is the age when beings were in exalted state, by virtue of their exaltation they had spiritual powers.
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Futhermore, the scientific revolution was greatly influenced by the combination - and exaltation - of the principles of individualism and rationality.
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The amazement, glee, even exaltation he found in the face of what he set out to photograph can be imagined if not really demonstrated.
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Perplex a teacher on the language lesson most of is a kid reading and writing skill of exaltation.
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He took a puff of the pot and raised his arms above his head in a gesture of exaltation and praise.
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In contrast, Masoch's fictive world is mythical, persuasive, aesthetically oriented, and centered around the idealizing, mystical exaltation of love for the punishing woman.
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Paul Klee's geometrized color-band depictions of nature as process and metamorphosis come to mind, but Bandau's aerial structures seem more about spiritual freedom and exaltation despite their somber palettes, despite the arduous labor they demand than rootedness.
ArtScene: Joachim Bandau and Cornelia Schulz Deliver Optical Pleasure with Intellectual Vigor
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Roadside horned larks are grouping into their common spring exaltations where they will nest.
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The exaltation of emotion and intuition above logical reasoning can readily disentangle them from any such disciplinary anchorage.
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And I watched as a nation drank deep from that very dark elixir of American nationalism ... the flip side of nationalism is always racism, it's about self-exaltation and the denigration of the other.
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Futhermore, the scientific revolution was greatly influenced by the combination - and exaltation - of the principles of individualism and rationality.
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Teammates who were strangers before the party are instantly bonded, and victory is celebrated with fists-in-the-air exaltation.
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Yes, all heroic exaltation is dangerous, but the danger is not to the hero-worshipers, but to the hero.
