Sentence examples for exalted purpose from inspiring English sources

Although he may radiate a seductive confidence, he can justify and forgive himself for just about anything, given his belief in his own exalted purpose.

"But as with other works of religiously minded art, its aesthetic glories are tethered to a humble and exalted purpose, which is to shine the light of the sacred on secular reality".

But the idea of classical music as a force for good fits right in with the widespread image — among classical music lovers, at least — of this art form's exalted purpose.

The sheer beauty of this film is almost overwhelming, but as with other works of religiously minded art, its aesthetic glories are tethered to a humble and exalted purpose, which is to shine the light of the sacred on secular reality.

"The sheer beauty of this film is almost overwhelming," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times, "but as with other works of religiously minded art, its aesthetic glories are tethered to a humble and exalted purpose, which is to shine the light of the sacred on secular reality".

Karaoke is my private release, the counterpoint to my serious work life, a good-hearted, goofy escape; a safe adventure for a long-married woman who likes to be in bars, but is there for the exalted purpose of singing her soul out.

The coats were an experiment in using humble materials for exalted purposes, and they have an aura — stark, dreamy, faintly vampiric — of costumes for a Surrealist chatelaine.

The coats were an experiment in using humble materials for exalted purposes, and they have an aura stark, dreamy, faintly vampiric of costumes for a Surrealist chatelaine.

The Egyptians called their hieroglyphs "words of god" and reserved their use for exalted purposes, such as communicating with divinities and spirits of the dead through funerary texts.

But this "decoration" -- like all important public ornamentation and architecture of the Beaux-Arts era -- was conceived with an exalted civic purpose.

Temptation is no longer an impulse to be resisted: it is our duty to yield to it in the name of that most exalted of purposes, "consumer confidence".