Sentence examples for exalted purposes from inspiring English sources

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.

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".

"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.

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".

An anxious temperament might serve a more exalted function too.

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

The album profoundly conveys the sheer beauty, the clarity and purity of Coltrane's sound; the exalted concentration reflected in the band's free and spontaneous unity — a unity of purpose as well as of musical conception; and the quasi-symphonic unity of the four movements, one grand composition in four parts.

As Elshtain's stately summaries of Addams's pronouncements roll on, her voice winds around her subject's, creating odd moments of piety, homiletics and overgeneralization: "Without a mooring in a moral purpose, life scatters, falters, and dries up"; "The modern city degrades what should be exalted".