Sentence examples for exalted character from inspiring English sources

Burr was the least of them, and in a pantheon of such exalted character Abigail Adams (the one undoubted "sister" of the group) may fairly take his place.

Up to that time, Washington, though regarded by associates, in Col. John L. Peyton's words, as "a young man of an extraordinary and exalted character," had shown no signs of personal greatness and few signs of interest in state affairs.

This motion was rejected and instead the Foreign Secretary, Charles James Fox, proposed a vote of thanks to Earl St Vincent, "That it appears to this house, that the conduct of the Earl of St . Vincent in his late naval administration, has added an additional lustre to his exalted character, and is entitled to the approbation of this house".

The Bennington Gazette wrote of the local hero, "the patriotism and strong attachment which ever appeared uniform in the breast of this Great Man, was worth of his exalted character; the public have to lament the loss of a man who has rendered them great service".

In his public relations he exhibited sterling common sense, lofty patriotism, inflexible honesty and withal a character so exalted that he commanded at all times not only the confidence but the affection of the people..

In Huysmans's 1891 novel, "Là-bas," a character observes, "From exalted mysticism to raging Satanism is but a step".

But the exalted tribe to which the characters in "The Best Man" belong mostly exists only amid the rarefied oxygen of a certain kind of play writing, a land where stumbling everyday speech acquires airborne grace and timing.

But the exalted tribe to which the characters in "The Best Man" belong mostly exists only amid the rarefied oxygen of a certain kind of playwriting, a land where stumbling everyday speech acquires airborne grace and timing.

Around these featured players swirl many others: supporting characters, choristers, spear-carriers, exalted and humble, dressed in tunics and turbans and 18th-century frock coats.

In 2013, when Takakura attended a ceremony to receive Japan's highest cultural award, the Order of Culture, at the Imperial Palace, he joked that he had often played characters considered distant from the exalted realm of the palace.

(The show's one sculpture by Maillol understates his prominence, in the twenties, as a public artist who made the sensual female nude a symbol of national character, with nuances both earthy and exalted).