The elevation of and exaltation in everyday stuff is wonderful training, our attention made crisper, our gratitude deepened.
Jesus himself deeply disappointed his disciples' notions aiming at power and exaltation, in that he taught them, in accordance with Isaiah, chapter 53: "The Son of man will suffer many things".
More problematic is the way Mr. Taylor sets this against three movements from Ferde Grofé's "Grand Canyon Suite"; as with the Mozart in "Kith and Kin," there are layers of exaltation in the music that the choreographer doesn't address.
At its center the film is solemn, even sober: there is no sense of exaltation in the temporary victories the workers score over the bosses, and when a prolonged strike finally erupts into violence, there is no triumph.
When fully sealed into the Covenant, Smith said that no sin nor blasphemy (other than the eternal sin) could keep them from their exaltation in the afterlife.
For all the grim doings that he depicts, for all the ugliness and violence underlying the calm surfaces of country life, Dumont binds the diverse moods and impulses — the bumptious comedy and the steadfast devotion, the free-spirited exuberance and the burning hatred — with a serene and vigorous exaltation in seeing and in being.
Xenakis once announced that he sought "a total exaltation in which the individual mingles, losing his consciousness in a truth immediate, rare, enormous, and perfect".
Her fine-boned confidence shows in the performance -- this trained dancer does much of her own work -- and her exaltation in movement gives her an adult dimension she has never brought to acting.
There is urgency, excitement, ecstasy, and altruistic exaltation in war, a mystic feeling of solidarity with something greater than oneself: a tribe, a nation, a movement, Humanity.
The aesthetic of the entire movie, with its oblique compositions and its boldly, exquisitely framed actions, is that of the revelation of exaltation in despair, of the constant and frustrated striving for beauty.
