But their newly elevated status could also make them look like interlopers.
It was clear in Keeping Up Appearances, the BBC1 series that ran from 1990-95, that Patricia Routledge's Mrs Bucket came from a lower-class family with people and secrets that threatened to embarrass her carefully elevated status.
This in turn may elevate status of living and community leadership.
Under the circumstances, though, he's certainly not deriving any pleasure from his newly elevated status.
Other teachers encourage amplifying certain states when they are present, most notably what are called the brahma-viharas - certain qualities of human experience, such as compassion and equanimity, that in Buddhism carry elevated status.
If only I could have picked up the phone, called my father, and heard the choice words he would have had for his newly elevated status as an American "warrior," seven decades after Normandy.
But he always did better than expected, elevating his status as a political powerbroker in New York.
Tiger Woods, of course, is the superstar of partly black Thais, elevating their status still further.
Elevating the status of comedy acting to that of dramatic acting.
And later this month, Limbaugh will be the featured speaker at a large conservative action committee, elevating his status even more.
The objects feel more remote, their bases hidden with a distortion of size and distance, elevating their status.
