Even her most exalted subject, marriage, can receive ambivalent treatment, as when she describes it (in "Toward a Definition of Marriage") as an "artless" work in which "none of the ho-hum passages can be skipped," "a duel of amateurs," a contributor to "expediency" in life and "the politics of love".
Astronomy, he tells us, is instructive not only by virtue of its exalted subject matter, but also because of its utility in the other sciences.
Since then, his titanic spins on exalted subjects (medieval philosophy, the Kabbalah, the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann) have seemed more pretext than passion.
Talese says that, despite the fame of his larger-than-life portraits of larger-than-life people (Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio), he has often preferred less exalted subjects.
The Morgan's exhibition has more to do with relationships: between creative circles (Europeans and Americans); individuals (H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan Josef Alberss and Jasper Johns); and, most of all, between Mr. Penn and his exalted subjects.
He saw nothing odd or improper in dealing with the most exalted subjects and then turning to the more ordinary task of telling students to avoid jargon and cliches, and advising them about quotations and footnotes.
The term may also refer to any poem in an inspired irregular strain, or to a statement or piece of writing in an exalted impassioned style, usually in praise of a particular subject.
"God that sits enthroned is a man like one of you" and "God Himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man" were two of his most emphatic aphorisms on the subject.
So Texas's highest court has held that no Texas dog, however beloved, will be given an exalted status akin to that of an heirloom pistol and thereby becoming the subject of imprecise, arbitrary and potentially unlimited tort litigation.
The Skidelskys have an exalted conception of leisure.
Their mission, from a certain vantage, was an exalted one.
