Sentence examples for elevated thoughts from inspiring English sources

Moreover, here is a French author who isn't too pompous, yet with just enough pretentiousness to remind the audience that the action takes place in Paris, and who can also squeeze elevated thoughts about death and sex between the jokes.

But while "The Thick of It" certainly finds something corrosive in the relationship between politicians and the media, and discourages elevated thoughts about public service — it's a counterpoint to "The West Wing," and even to "Parks and Recreation" — the show conveys a kind of warmth toward men whose greatest professional victories are days that end without the need to resign.

This story and the one that follows, "Natural Selection," also feature the fatal flaw of putting improbably elevated thoughts into the minds of children.

Drunk on "the mere fumes of silver", an author of the time noted that the city's residents "nurtured such elevated thoughts" – exemplified by mining boss Domingo Beltran, who reportedly proclaimed himself to be among the world's most important figures: "The Pope in Rome, the King in Spain, and Domingo Beltran in Potosí...".

As Wordsworth wrote, "its presence disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts".

Mystics without Wordsworth's poetic gifts often turn silent, the paltry reach of words wholly inadequate to the loftiness of their "elevated thoughts".

Transform and elevate thoughts that were working against you.

Timon calls Parmenides 'high-minded' and 'not full of opinions,' and says that he "elevated our thought-processes from the deception of appearance".

The writers Samuel Delany and Octavia Butler have been elevating our thoughts with a black consciousness to the realms of heavens for decades.

Graham seems to see herself doing poetry a great service by elevating its thought content, which for her means an elusive search for a "unified field" of thought that will reduce all material objects to fantasy.

Julian understood that he would have to hire cheap help, a broken-down old carpenter desperate for work, or some rehabilitating wino or mental case, and the thought elevated his spirits, as if such servitude would echo the history of the place.