That honour was principally to do with his fight against Hitler and the Nazis, and the citation saluted both his mastery of historical and biographical description, and his brilliant defence of "exalted human values".
Hals figures in history not only as a stylist but as an emergent type: the independent contractor to the bourgeoisie, dependably exalting its values of individual identity and status.
Their traditional values exalted Cabrera's triple crown, the first in 45 years.
The approach adopted by the court in Thornton and pressed upon us here exalts the value of finality in criminal judgments at the expense of the interest of each prisoner in the vindication of his constitutional rights.
Despite research studies exalting the value of a full night's sleep — ideally between seven and nine hours each night — many people eschew a few hours of sleep in favour of extra time to work, rather than taking that time from family and personal interests. .
They exalted the anti-academic values of disorder, spontaneity, and enthusiasm.
In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders.
Bearden's paintings made simple what Wilson's writing had so far only groped to formulate: "Black life presented on its own terms, on a grand and epic scale, with all its richness and fullness, in a language that was vibrant and which, made attendant to everyday life, ennobled it, affirmed its value, and exalted its presence".
It was an era when rhetoric and linguistic proficiency and words words words were valued, prized, exalted and exulted in.
As one of the founding editors of Salvage, a journal that exalts the critical value of pessimism, Seymour is well placed to give Corbynmania a sober evaluation: he is sympathetic to Corbyn's politics but brutally honest about his chances.
As Putin dismantled the weak liberal institutions of the 1990s, he restored the czarist-era role of the Orthodox Church, promised strong leadership of a traditional Russian kind, fought for "traditional" values against LGBTQ rights and other gender-related issues, and exalted Russia's special "Asiatic" character over its Western orientation.
