Sentence examples similar to a loftier station from inspiring English sources

Having attained a lofty station in English culture by the time the "War Requiem" had its première, in 1962, he confronted listeners with a statement of radical pacifism: interweaving the Mass for the Dead with antiwar poems by Wilfred Owen, Britten proposed that war is an absolute evil, and implied that institutionalized Christianity had betrayed its founding texts.

They lived in imposing houses in the hills and imported artisans, probably from Antioch, to decorate them in a style befitting their lofty station.

It was not that Morgan despised the working and middle classes ― though he did loathe the nouveau riche who had dared to migrate from among them into his own lofty station.

And when they exploited it by sexually abusing the children, according to civil and criminal cases from different places and periods, they were protected by their lofty stations and by the caretakers of their faith.

"You will meet many important people, but you will also meet many people who will not have achieved a lofty professional or social station.

Librettos took a loftier tone.

Why not set a loftier goal?

I have a loftier reason, too.

Most of the time the student consults a loftier scholar.

"I prefer a loftier cuisine," he says archly.

Microsoft is shooting for a loftier goal.