The genius of Piazzolla's art, beyond its hypnotic soulfulness, is its refusal to be elevated by anyone.
It would never have occurred to me to be elevated by the reputation of the University of Toronto.
Greenburg hopes that the bout's rating will be elevated by the hype surrounding the Lewis-Tyson fight.
Finally, a goal and its scorer can be elevated by their context.
There were some in the administration who entertained the hope that a "new generation" of leaders would be elevated by the election.
The notoriety of any crime should never be elevated by abandoning the principles of justice that we, as civilized citizens, should always treasure as dearly as life itself.
Citizen Reza has yet to be elevated by her peers to the (imaginary) rank of chevalier du théâtre français.
Turner's subject is the way a district's history of poverty, defilement, and petty retribution can coexist with, and be elevated by, its trade in beauty and every kind of physical and spiritual release.
As Mr. Cameron would have it, Britain's global standing will be elevated by companies like Land Rover and Mini that are helping feed China's voracious appetite for automobiles.
Even as they were being sniffed at by the mainstream press, Hitchcock and Sirk in particular were about to be elevated by the young punks of Cahiers du Cinéma, with a whole new toolkit for considering film.
The night after the Fantasia's premiere in 1910, Parry gave a speech declaring music to be a socially inclusive agent "to get the people from the slums to be elevated by [its] power".
