The music would blast, sonic boom after sonic boom, and the words (in German) would describe and glorify particular events, solidifying them in historical memory.
Nin and Angelou are both theatrical writers — they use language, often with great aplomb, to describe and glorify a self that is fulfilled only when it is being observed.
Padāvalī songs describe and glorify all phases of Krishna's love for the cowherds' wives (especially Rādhā, who later became a goddess), and it is love poetry before it is religious poetry.
Old-timer Jick McCaskill, the narrator of this novel, leisurely recounts the story of his own coming-of-age summer at age 14 in northern Montana; along the way he describes and glorifies such Western traditions as rodeos, square dances, long days stacking hay and even sheep- counting expeditions.
I've heard parents describe it as "glorified babysitting". I think about the first special needs preschool class we ever visited.
It has been described as a "glorified milk-float race", but Mr Agag argues Formula E will "push electric cars into the mainstream".
The idea of describing themselves as glorified delivery men may well still appeal to the cynics on the trading floor who work with shirtsleeves rolled up and hail each other loudly in Brooklyn or mock cockney accents.
Myths glorified her by describing that she saved Shiva after he drank poison, and venerated her as the "remover of poison".
With a bit of disdain, Ueberroth described seeing poker and violent bastardized martial arts being glorified as sports on the Internet and on cable television.
Now Facebook has unpublished the pages for glorifying violence and "using dehumanizing language to describe people who are transgender, Muslims and immigrants, which violates our hate speech policies," the company said.
