How To Use Exalted In A Sentence

She was the only woman to rise to such an exalted position.
It was exalted in contrast to ‘uniformity of provision’, a state Milburn dismisses as the legacy from the years of ‘ration books and demob suits’.
And this, to my mind, is his distinctive failing as a writer: that he has exalted charm and mannerliness above all else.
Nay, the majesty of kings, is rather exalted than diminished, when they are in the chair of counsel; neither was there ever prince, bereaved of his dependences, by his counsel, except where there hath been, either an over – greatness in one counsellor, or an over – strict combination in divers; which are things soon found, and holpen. The Essays
The normal human desire to rid one's self of a tormenting secret, to "exteriorize one's rottenness," finds satisfaction on an exalted plane in confession to God, or to his appointed ministers. Human Traits and their Social Significance

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You must decide how to make the best use of your exalted position.
For the human shell is not merely geometrical and architectural, like those of apian or beaverish communities; it holds and expresses all those differences by which we are exalted above the bee or the beaver. Civics: as Applied Sociology
It could not be called a transfiguration that sleep had worked in his face; for the features wore essentially the same expression when waking; but sleep spiritualized that expression, exalted it, and also harmonized it. Biographical Essays
It would have been a rather prosaic match were it not for the exalted company and the fact that the Swiss was on a one-match losing streak. Times, Sunday Times
A woman who is so much exalted above what she can deserve, has reason to be terrified, were she to marry the complimenter (even could she suppose him so blinded by his passion as not to be absolutely insincere) to think of the height she must fall from in his opinion, when she has put it into his power to treat her but as what she is. Sir Charles Grandison
His Masonic music has a distinctive tone, solemn yet exalted and often joyous.
'The first instance I shall give of the abiding influence of strong impressions received in infancy, is in the character of a lady who is now no more; and who was too eminent for piety and virtue, to leave any doubt of her being now exalted to the enjoyment of that felicity which her enfeebled mind, during its abode on earth, never dared to contemplate. The Mother's Book
It remains, indeed, a sublime mystery that Bach's exalted creative ideals appear to have been so little constrained by the limited means at his disposal.
The poor sweepers in India would be stunned by the exalted status of the sanitation workers in America, who make pretty handsome salaries.
Father, who is "a jealous God," have raised such a blasphemer from the dead and exalted him to His right hand? Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He moved in exalted circles - and was ambitious for greater things.
He is in exalted company. Times, Sunday Times
I think that the avant-garde suggests that no poet can “rest on their laurels” for very long without reinventing the future of poetry itself — and hence, the avant-garde has often seen the need to revisit the neglected, unexalted techniques of writing for overlooked potentials …. 2007 September : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2
Not needing other people is exalted as a virtue.
Loyalty to those before us is exalted over love for those around us. Christianity Today
He has far too exalted an estimation of human reason and far too optimistic a view of human nature.
You confer upon the woman an exalted status. Times, Sunday Times
This exalted idea of the consulship is borrowed from an oration (iii.p. 107) pronounced by Julian in the servile court of Constantius. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It would have been a rather prosaic match were it not for the exalted company and the fact that the Swiss was on a one-match losing streak. Times, Sunday Times
Two Scottish players appeared in this exalted company and did not look out of place.
However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterise and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.” Fielding
Her less brainiac little sister goes to another league-topping school nearby, only marginally less exalted. Times, Sunday Times
The exalted status of peers such as the Duke of Norfolk is a faint echo of this power in the land.
Find for him, Thy Anointed Won, a lefty handwringer who legislates most stridently from the bench, a champion of absurdity, let us see this scoundrel exalted, and then dispatch the Winged Monkey of Thy Perversity to throw his Righteous Wrench into those works! Archive 2009-04-26
When such subjection is withheld, Christ's servants, if they would be faithful to the exalted Saviour, cannot do otherwise than refuse to incorporate with the national society, and to homologate the acts of its rulers; and from Churches that do not testify against national defection, they are constrained to maintain distinct separation. The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
This sentimental literature exalted spontaneous and expressive emotion springing directly from the heart.
With this there is united the complex sentiment which we term affection -- a sentiment which, as it exists between those of the same sex, must be regarded as an independent sentiment, but one which is here greatly exalted. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
Yet Cocteau made ‘the noblest and most exalted claims’ for poets, and the poet's immortality is very special and real.
Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons: ” “The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden
Given its coming of age in the 19th Century, this tradition has tended to elevate humans over nature and accorded an exalted place to human consciousness.
On the other hand the Negro debased and brutified by a servitude of centuries, has no comprehension or desire for home in any exalted sense. Afro-American Encyclopaedia; or, The Thoughts, Doings, and Sayings of the Race, Embracing Addresses, Lectures, Biographical Sketches, Sermons, Poems, Names of Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Newspapers, Books, and a History of the Denominations, Givin
Station-masters and conductors were also anxious to emphasize their exalted positions.
She found him an exalted sinecure as a Fellow of the Library of Congress.
As does his happy exalted run to school, racing the train.
There were two kinds of poets known to the early Gael. the principle of those was called the filè (filla); there were seven grades of filès, the most exalted being called an ollamh (ollav). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Since birth, his position had always been exalted, and he knew nothing of being humbled by the suffering that all common people know.
These people usually have a large, handsome predator in mind, a lion or a cheetah (the life of a gnu or an aardvark are rarely exalted).
Hindus regard death as a most exalted human experience, the migration of the soul from one dimension of consciousness to another, a transition we have all experienced many times.
He knew that that creator himself of every object one, that exalted of all gods -- Narayana -- who had formerly commanded the celestials, saying, -- 'Be ye born on earth and slay one another and come back to heaven' -- that slayer of all the enemies of the gods, that subjugator of all hostile towns, in order to fulfil his own promise, had been born in the Kshatriya order. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
In fact she seems to have been more victim than aggressor, a tragic casualty of her own exalted hopes for freedom. Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
This piece was followed by a post by Jerry Saltz on his Facebook page in which he exalted Thornton's criticism and jokingly suggested that the White Collar Crimes division of the FBI conduct an investigation of the auction houses - a call that is perhaps a bit sensationalist and overemotional when, in the same breath, Saltz states that he is in favor of an unregulated market. Stephanie Adamowicz: Recap of "Carte Blanche" at Phillips de Pury
And thou, Capernaum -- (See on [1263] Mt 4: 13). which art exalted unto heaven -- Not even of Chorazin and Bethsaida is this said. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Which way should we go, then, o exalted pathfinder?
Now its cast of characters seems less exalted and therefore less interesting.
He has pulled the princes from their thrones and exalted the humble.
My own new position was much less exalted, a manager in audit research.
Because --" the boy spoke in an almost matter-of-fact tone -- in quite an unexalted tone at all events, "you see I can always make a strong call, as I did tonight. The Lost Prince
Sadly, most of the exalted class of 1990 have become journeyman club players, plying their trade in the lower leagues.
In speaking of worship, theologians generally distinguish three kinds, namely: latria, or that supreme worship due to God alone, which cannot be transferred to any creature without committing the sin of idolatry; dulia, or that secondary veneration we give to saints and angels as the special friends of God; hyperdulia, or that higher veneration which we give to the Blessed Virgin as the most exalted of all God's creatures. Baltimore Catechism No. 4 (of 4) An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine
The revelation of this book is from Allah, exalted in power, full of knowledge, who forgives sin, accepts repentance, is strict in punishment, and has a long reach in all things.
It would be difficult, however, in the last respect, to discover many more exalted than himself, for before his demission he was Secretary of the Lodge Savonarola of Florence; Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer
It has not been a lack of opportunity for marital contract on their part, but their own culture and refinement, and their exalted idea as to what a husband ought to be, have caused their declinature. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony
In the dictionary its meaning is given as lofty, elevated by joy, exalted in character; awakening or expressing an uplifting emotion, producing a sense of elevated beauty, nobility, grandeur, solemnity or awe.
Anyway, he did not fail to exploit his exalted status.
Now, the meaning is more exalted than the expression, and the expression humbler than the meaning. [ Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic
The cornemuse of shepherds and rustic swains became the fashionable instrument, but as inflating the bag by the breath distorted the performer's face, the bellows were substituted, and the whole instrument was refined in appearance and tone-quality to fit it for its more exalted position. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
It really is a pity when you get someone of his exalted stature getting himself into a position like this.
Deep down in his conscience he has a fear of 'damnation', which only makes itself felt, however, in unexalted moments. The Growth of English Drama
But reunification, an unprecedented experiment in social and political reclamation, was bound to fall short of the exalted German ideal of national solidarity.
The victorious students ran through the street in an exalted state of excitement.
Of course another possibility is that Pangle does not view philosophy as noble at all - and that he merely employs an exalted rhetoric to attract people, and especially young people, to the study of it.
Lets promote him to the exalted position of management consultant!
Clemente wanted no part of drawing a walk in baseball's most exalted exhibition game.
That those evils of prelaty, which before from five or six and twenty sees were distributively charged upon the whole people, will now light wholly upon learning, is not obscure to us: whenas now the pastor of a small unlearned parish on the sudden shall be exalted archbishop over a large diocese of books, and yet not remove, but keep his other cure too, a mystical pluralist. Areopagitica
And now one of our own is sitting in that exalted company. Times, Sunday Times
Such exalted people clearly do not need to worry about the consequences of their policies for individuals and families anxious to purchase fairly basic accommodation.
A few hours later she is in a safe house with Prashant, the boy she loves, the boy she was barred from marrying on pain of death because he is from the lowly Meena caste while she is a more exalted Jat. Honour killings: Saved from India's caste system by the Love Commandos
This exalted state rests between channels 701 and 715 on DirecTV - hallelujah, NFL Sunday Ticket!
Station-masters and conductors were also anxious to emphasize their exalted positions.
In saluting his life of violence, exile and running, there is the satisfaction of heroism and human grandeur, an athletic and aesthetic pleasure, something exalted and defiant about his refusal to serve.
He has a far too exalted estimation of human reason and far too optimistic a view of human nature.
The most exalted initiation is also called "the fourth initiation" or "the word initiation" The previous great wisdom-gnosis initiation empowers the disciple to achieve the eleventh bodhisattva stage. Kalachakra Initiations by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
I would have expected more discussion on intellectuals as producers of ethnocentric symbols of exclusion, ethnic self-aggrandizement, self-pity, and exalted martyrology.
Otherwise, have exalted professional morality and excellent service impossibly.
We don't want bosses, figureheads or exalted leaders.
His conception of the aristocracy was an exalted one; so was his conception of empire.
It has been a hard slog to the top, making my way through mind-numbing local radio interviews and writing for nothing; never did I imagine that I would hit such exalted heights.
In our quotidian acts of reverence, we read these portraits with ineffable sadness, but every day we are exalted by them, joining in the community of a city that has discovered itself in a union of souls.
She was exalted to the position of president.
In Gayasira is a banian, which is called by the Brahmanas the _Eternal_ banian, for the food that is offered there to the Pitris becometh eternal, O exalted one! The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
Hereby are the faculties of our souls exalted, elevated, and enabled to act primigenial powers, with respect unto God and our enjoyment of him; which is our utmost end and blessedness. Gospel Grounds and Evidences of the Faith of God��s Elect
She was exalted to the position of president.
She found him an exalted sinecure as a Fellow of the Library of Congress.
I was born in the late 1940s and I remember growing up what high hopes and exalted opinion we had of India's future and its leaders.
He becomes a total degenerate, as did Faust, and, like Faust, he has sold his soul and is shocked when it comes time for him to die and he is condemned rather than exalted.
Whereas, indeed, it is the most prevailing eloquence, and of the most exalted caract. Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems
Rather than locating human dignity in God or nature, Kant exalted man's autonomy - his ability to make and obey the moral law.
He is not the first politician to kick down the ladder by which he has risen to exalted heights.
CAMBRIDGE occupies an exalted place in the national imagination. Times, Sunday Times
I might have continued on in the words of the royal lamenter; for, surely, never did one fellow-servant love another in my maiden state, nor servant love a mistress in my exalted condition, better than Jonathan loved me! Pamela
Even highly exalted men, like the authors of apocryphal books, Daniel, for instance, and Enoch, committed, to aid their cause, and without the shadow of a scruple, acts which we should call frauds.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given] iim a name which is above every name; that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things inearth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father, "Phil. ii. Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague
Furthermore, all that is most shocking in my books is derived more or less directly from some pretty exalted sources. Times, Sunday Times
Such developments, he thinks, have fostered an ethos of “antihumanism” in which the collective is exalted over the individual. World Wide Mind
He contended that his majesty, by undertaking the office of mediator, would have added lustre to the national character, and have placed Britain in the exalted situation of arbitress of the world. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
I doubt if there is any more exalted form of life than that of a great abstract thinker, wrapt in the successful study of problems to which he devotes himself, for an end which is neither unselfish nor selfish in the common sense of those words, but is simply to feed the deepest hunger and to use the greatest gifts of his soul. Balkinization
So, let's call it preaching if you will, but it is wonderful preaching, and it is a wonderful setting of a message of the old stoic, that a man should be independent of his environment, neither unduly exalted nor elated by success, nor unduly depressed by failure, but preserving an evenness of spirit through all the changes of his outward fortune. Kipling, The Poet of Empire
He is not the first politician to kick down the ladder by which he has risen to exalted heights.
Even so, dismissal should never come as a bolt from the blue, however exalted your place in the corporate hierarchy.
She found him an exalted sinecure as a Fellow of the Library of Congress.
He was exalted to the postion of a general manager of the company.
I mean we're talking about a virgin figure, an exalted virgin figure who according to Catholic doctrine remained a virgin, and so it's a particular kind of concept of the feminine.
Of course, other factors tie into this, such as the exalted and angular Jupiter, ruler of his ascendant.
Yet I might appropriately enough have envied the fellow his altitudinous position, if nothing else, remembering how grand and almost grown-up a certain small Massachusetts boy used to feel as he surveyed the world from a perch not half so exalted, in what to his eyes was about the tallest pine tree in the world, up in his father's pasture. On Foot in the Yosemite
Every aria she sang was a highlight, not least the formidable Act 1 scena which can hold up its musical head in the exalted territory of Come scoglio.
Numbers and music shared of course the same patterns of elegance, even when the figures exalted only aubergines.
This is, in contrast, to the exalted status given to a newborn male child who is often considered to be the heir to the family's wealth and thereby considered an asset.
He has, more than another, the exalted sentiment of honor, but is lacking in the sense of simple honesty, and, circumstances favoring him, would defalcate and commit infamies which do not trouble his conscience, for he obeys without questioning the oscillations of his ideas, which are always impulsive. Original Short Stories — Volume 09
Dryden has himself assigned the following reasons: -- "The plot, the characters, the wit, the passions, the descriptions, are all exalted above the level of common converse, as high as the imagination of the poet can carry them, with proportion to verisimility. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author
Those who recall Mercouri only as a mid-century sex symbol outshone by her more celebrated contemporaries Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot might be bemused by the exalted place she now occupies in the modern Greek pantheon, rather as if Angie Dickinson had become head of the National Endowment for the Arts. But more than anyone else, Mercouri vivified the continuing campaign to bring Greece's long-lost archaeological treasures back to their homeland. Grading the New Acropolis
Consider Tony Blair - a non-neocon raised by neocons to the exalted status that until now was accorded only to Churchill and Thatcher.
Transported to the Americas through European exploration and colonization, the notion of savagery was an important aspect of what Ramos calls the Edenic discourse, which "exalted the Indians as children of Paradise" and Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
an exalted ideal
I have visited the sign in question, which yet swings exalted in the village of Langdirdum; and I am ready to depone upon the oath that what has been idly mistaken or misrepresented as being the fifth leg of the horse, is, in fact, the tail of that quadruped, and, considered with reference to the posture in which he is delineated, forms a circumstance introduced and managed with great and successful, though daring, art. The Bride of Lammermoor
A prelate of the present day has discovered, it seems, a _third_ kind of doxy, which has not greatly exalted in the eyes of the elect that which Bentham calls "Church-of-Englandism. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6
middies" (the boy officers), who are often sent there to air themselves, and profit, if they can, by calm reflection in exalted solitude. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships
My certainty in this matter was due, not to any exalted sense of my own desirableness to women, but to my anything but exalted concept of women as instinctive huntresses of men. CHAPTER VIII
`By now I had achieved the exalted rank of WO2 -- Warrant Officer, equivalent to company sergeant major in the infantry. THE ENDLESS GAME
Right up to the end, Enron was described in the exalted realms of management theory and business journalism with virtually unmodulated adoration.
There was melancholy, high and stately, such as Lucretius knew, when he went lonely among the homesteads or along the shore; but it was too exalted to be one with diffidence, for he who will hold the sum of things in his thoughts walks on clouds above the heads of men, free of all misgiving. Apologia Diffidentis
A man in his exalted position. Times, Sunday Times
Which current member of congress has been the kleagle or recruiter and exalted cyclopse, a position of leadership in the Ku Klux Klan? The American Spectator
But Germany, let us help Lamprecht to say, since he does not himself draw this conclusion, has failed to emerge upon the level of an exalted ecstasy, failed to produce the philosophical, the moral and religious fruit of its new impulses, _failed, in a word, to find its dominant on a high level_, precisely as often the promising individual fails and has expressed his truly great nature in low forms of activity. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History
You shall call a fine film the one that gives you an exalted idea of the cinematograph.
The exalted status of peers such as the Duke of Norfolk is a faint echo of this power in the land.
What an exalted idea does it give of the soul of Jonathan, sweetly attempered for the sacred band, if we may suppose it but equal to that of my Anna Clarissa Harlowe
Christ must humble themselves, and are commonly vilified by the world, in recompence of both which they shall be exalted in due time. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
What has become an endangered species is a still further type of negation, metaphysical negation, in which the no turns out to be a yes: no to appearances, yes to something so exalted it's indescribable.
He is not the first politician to kick down the ladder by which he has risen to exalted heights.
A god held up as the august lord of the universe was the pitiful and abject hero of an obscene love affair; the taurobolium, performed to satisfy man's most exalted aspirations for spiritual purification and immortality, looked like a shower bath of blood and recalled cannibalistic orgies. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
His conception of the aristocracy was an exalted one; so was his conception of empire.
Merja women were described as exalted and beautiful, of mythical personal strength, so much so that if a Merjan village was attacked, the women made themselves drown in the river with their jewels and children, in order not to be subjected to robbery or despoiling. E. Nina Rothe: Aleksei Fedorchenko's Silent Souls: Connecting Tenderness, Nostalgia and Love
This low standard of the Press is the more regretable as its exalted duty is at present to solve the highest problems social and industrial, such as co-operation in labour, the development of fisheries, direct taxation versus indirect and a host of enigmas which the young world, uncumbered by the burdens of the Old World, alone shall unravel. Arabian nights. English
Already in Æthelberht's legislation we find characteristic fines inflicted for breach of the peace of householders of different ranks -- the ceorl, the eorl, and the king himself appearing as the most exalted among them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Suozzi had already dazzled me a few times at City Ballet, and I'm certain we'll be seeing more of him there, and at a more exalted level than his current corps newbie position.
And as the 24-year-old Russian prepares for her last world gymnastics championships and Olympics, she's embracing her exalted status as if this was what she was born to do.
That makes me officially not part of the exalted Baby Boom generation.
We are either fathers or mothers, aunts or uncles, grandfathers or grandmothers, the last category tending to have an exalted position in the hierarchy of affection for young children.
In our “neu - tral” physical perception there is no difference be - tween the distortion in the corrugated mirror of an amusement park for vulgar purposes, and the distortion in the nonrealistic painting of an artist from an exalted inspiration. SYMMETRY AND ASYMMETRY
This is quite scary, and made more so by the fact that doctors, with their exalted status, find it hard to admit that there is a problem.
To the simple and ardent idealist its white stateliness must always suggest something symbolic, and, after all, it is the ardent and simple idealist whose dreams and symbols paint to prosaic human minds the beautiful impossibilities whose unattainable loveliness so allures as to force even the unexalted world into the endeavour to create such reproductions of their forms as crude living will allow. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim
Carinthia, suddenly wedded, passionately grateful for humbleness exalted, virginly sensible of treasures of love to give, resembled the inanimate and most inspiring, was mindless and inexpressive, past memory, beyond the hopes, a thing of the thrilled blood and skylark air, since she laid her hand in this young man's. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
But, no philosophy, no education and no teaching, howsoever elevated and exalted, can inspire the people unless its preacher or teacher has a loving personality capable of commanding the affection and reverence of his followers.
I felt shy in such exalted company.
In his last drama, "Arminius," he extravagantly scatters his panegyrics on its fifteen predecessors; but of the present one he has the most exalted notion: it is the quintessence of Scudery! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)
Soldiering for profit was taken for granted for thousands of years, but the United States has thrived in an age when soldiering for the state - serving your country - has taken on an exalted status.
To think, Reuben, that I, wha hae been sae honoured and exalted in my youth, nay, when I was but a hafflins callant, and that hae borne testimony again the defections The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Thus instead of being useless or morally questionable, leisure becomes an exalted ideal, akin to virtue.
The manager exalted many of his friends.
This article explores how Head used Romantic notions that exalted primitivism and the ‘noble savage’ to justify this plan.
He poured his heart out in soaring songs of praise, in searing prayers, in sublime thanksgiving, in words infinitely more exalted than any I could conjure up.
He is set eis ptosin kai anastasin -- for their fall, in order to their rising again; to humble and abase them, and bring them off from all confidence in themselves, that they may be exalted by relying on Christ; he wounds and then heals, Paul falls, and rises again. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
She was excited to ride in exalted company, but she would not be overawed. Times, Sunday Times
Had he, who in boyhood had known no law, who in manhood had exalted himself above law, in truth found the shining ways? BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
Behind this rejection of the "literary" as anything other than a window on culture and beyond that mostly an imposition by overweening writers claiming an exalted power they don't ultimately possesses is an attitude that might indeed be described as "normative conclusion" as Fish uses the term. Art and Culture
There is malignity in the very air of this town, but it resides in more exalted vessels than Manfred. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
In 1903, after an exalted correspondence, he met Blok, with whom he was to have a long ‘inimical friendship’, and for whose wife he conceived a complex passion.
A god held up as the august lord of the universe was the pitiful and abject hero of an obscene love affair; the taurobolium, performed to satisfy man's most exalted aspirations for spiritual purification and immortality, looked like a shower bath of blood and recalled cannibalistic orgies. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
But Germany, let us help Lamprecht to say, since he does not himself draw this conclusion, has failed to emerge upon the level of an exalted ecstasy, failed to produce the philosophical, the moral and religious fruit of its new impulses, _failed, in a word, to find its dominant on a high level_, precisely as often the promising individual fails and has expressed his truly great nature in low forms of activity. The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History
What could be responsible for the incredible evolutionary sprint that brought our species to its present exalted but precarious position?
The Prince enjoys his exalted position by an accident of birth. Times, Sunday Times
In fact she seems to have been more victim than aggressor, a tragic casualty of her own exalted hopes for freedom. Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
That those who humble themselves shall be exalted, and shall be established in their dignity: Honour shall uphold the humble in spirit; their humility is their honour, and that shall make them truly and safely great, and recommend them to the esteem of all that are wise and good. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
We associate black with nullity, with the void that is deep space, but here it is given the identity of a black goddess giving birth: simultaneously humanized and exalted.
The mythopoetic power of the car, aligned with the history of the open Road in America, was from the beginning destined to become one of America's, and Democracy's, most exalted myths. G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God
A band of gold seals the wedding vows, and fifty years later the metal valorizes the most exalted anniversary of married bliss.
Our nature in him is passed through these aspectable heavens, and is exalted far above them. Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ
Throughout the 2,000 years of Christianity, Mary's image in the visual arts has reflected a tradition that exalted above all other virtues her passivity and obedience.
Christ" (Heb 3: 1), highly as they regard Moses who resembled Him in faithfulness (Heb 3: 2). was -- Greek, "has been." counted worthy of more glory -- by God, when He exalted Him to His own right hand. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
After Ursy and I had come to our decision I tried to be very non-committal and unexalted, but I suppose I made a poor fist at it. Died in the Wool
Fifty years after the Bloody Shouldered Arabian's importation, the Arabian still offered the loftiest, most exalted image in the English horse painter's repertoire.
The original song, written during the revolution of 1830, exalted the revolt against the ‘arbitrary’ power of the Dutch king.
In Aram Zova, in Aleppo, they tell a tale about Hakham Ezra Hamawi of blessed memory, concerning a deed which exalted him in the eyes of the gentiles and won him a name in all the cities of the East.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.
I think the correct term is "bathos" - an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. Politicalbetting.com
In fact, he argued that it was because of this exalted nature that the arts, and culture more generally, could guide the nation in its path toward development.
From this state of repose, amounting almost to apathy respecting the past, his thoughts were carried forward to the future, which, in spite of all that existed to overcloud the prospect, glittered with such hues as, under much happier auspices, his unstimulated imagination had not been able to produce, even in its most exalted state. The Talisman
A green is an exalted piece of turf that we are privileged to set foot upon, and tromping across it with a golf bag causes extra damage, especially if you slip, or the strap breaks.
God highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that is, Lord.
That will give her access to all Cabinet decisions and files, and an exalted status in the Government.
They exalted the existence of what is visible, and took no thought for what is perceivable to the mind and yet invisible. In the Valley of the Shadow
Herodotus in particular seems to have caught both Ethiopia's sybaritic allure and the exalted drum-driven dawn chants of the churches perfectly.
She was the only woman to rise to such an exalted position.
It is something to have eaten of the dainties prepared for the ladies of the harem; but I think Mr. Cockle ought to get the names of the chief sultanas among the exalted patrons of his antibilious pills. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
The prosaic reality often falls short of this exalted ideal.
His voice rose to a howl and drew the audience up with it into an excited, almost exalted, crescendo.
Why, then, make an exalted virtue of the necessity which drives us, and objurgate the poor black man because he prefers present ease to a doubtful prospective retirement on a competency? The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
Angry duns, beggarliness of income, scarcity of the necessaries and luxuries which dignity of rank demanded, the indifference and slights of one's equals, and the ignoring of one's existence by exalted persons, were all hideous enough to Lord Mount The Shuttle
From this exalted perch, the poet laureate is charged with bringing poetry to the forefront of the American consciousness, as well as playing consultant to the Library of Congress — which includes giving a reading at the beginning of the term and a lecture or reading at end of term, organizing monthly readings and overseeing the Library's poetry fellowships and prizes. Paid Poet
Even when Miss Alice discovered my unexalted position, she did not seem to esteem me the less, for I had already, I rather fancy, established myself in her good graces. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman
Blessed were the meek, the persecuted, the reviled, for we would be exalted in the Kingdom of Heaven.
Begun with the Scientific Revolution, propounded in the Enlightenment, and finally enthroned on the humanist ideals of liberal religion and the rights-based polity, modernity exalted the god of human competence.
And so, exalted, upborne by a sense of power, I turned my back on the howling inferno and climbed to the deck, where the fog drifted ghostly through the night and the air was sweet and pure and quiet. Chapter 26
While the pastor enjoys an exalted status, any leadership initiatives are greeted with the cultural norm of "extreme caution and the desire to keep peace. Christianity Today
Two people, the exalted ruler and our -- what we call our lecturing knight, we haven't been able to contact them. CNN Transcript Jun 26, 2006

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