Sentence examples for exalted idea from inspiring English sources

He had an exalted idea of the heroism of business; three months in retail disabused him.

No! No!" to his exalted idea of a United States of Europe.

She also had such an exalted idea of freedom that she preferred to die rather than lose it".

The film allows us to consider the awful thought that the couple were happiest apart, when they had only the tragically exalted idea of each other.

Such an outcome is especially likely because the current Court has such an exalted idea of the importance of campaign contributions as a form of individual expression.

The events of the Peasants Revoltt may have given Richard an exalted idea of his own powers and prerogative as a result of his success at Smithfield, but for the rebels the gains of the rising amounted to no more than the abolition of the poll taxes.

As part of this New Culture Movement, they attacked traditional Confucian ideas and exalted Western ideas, particularly science and democracy.

After all, from "La Bohème" onward, literature and opera and cinema have exalted the idea of the young writer starving in a garret.

Civic humanism provided the vital vehicle for the translation of the exalted ancient idea of citizenship to the modern age.

But although the Lib Dems are the most likely coalition partners, they are not the only ones: if the parties finish only a couple of seats shy of an absolute majority, attention may turn instead to the minnows, such as the Scottish Nationalists or Wales Plaidd Cymru.On the most exalted level, politics can be about romance and grand ideas.

To work too hard or too earnestly at any profession would amount to questioning the premise underlying Dunsany's own excellent position in life: the idea that exalted status is a matter of blood rather than sweat.