Sentence examples for exalted standards from inspiring English sources

Never quite up to her own exalted standards, she is often frustrated, dark-thinking, on edge.

Sirloin steak, rather pallid and a little dry, fell well short of the porterhouse's exalted standards.

His reasons for resettling in California were excellent, and there was not even any need to lower his exalted standards of smart company.

AT $31.5m for 500 square metres of living space, the penthouse at 502 Park Avenue is a pricey bit of property even by the exalted standards of Manhattan.

They notched up a record 16 straight Test match victories and set new exalted standards for fast scoring and pugnacious play.

When The Boys of Summer first appeared, it looked as though books from British sports writers would never meet the exalted standards set by their American counterparts.

Harwell also noticed that the candidate's wife was constantly trying to upgrade the campaign, eliminating anything that seemed tacky or otherwise redolent of the less-than-exalted standards of Illinois state politics.

"Simple to Spectacular" by Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Mark Bittman – What a great concept: Take a simple combination of ingredients and let a really talented chef explain how to combine them in dishes ranging from everyday (well, everyday by Vongerichten's standards) to exalted.

What that proves, perhaps, is that teams do not need to excel to be memorable: Most fans would remember the Netherlands in 1974 much more fondly than West Germany, which beat the Dutch in the final; Brazil's 1982 vintage, unsuccessful by the country's very high standards, are equally exalted.

Both societies exalted custom, and both had an exacting standard of masculinity.

Churlishly, I couldn't help pointing out to them that this was England, and that such tea-making accouterments come as standard in even the least exalted of hotel rooms.