Sentence examples for exalted subject from inspiring English sources

Even her most exalted subject, marriage, can receive ambivalent treatment, as when she describes it (in "Toward a Definition of Marriage") as an "artless" work in which "none of the ho-hum passages can be skipped," "a duel of amateurs," a contributor to "expediency" in life and "the politics of love".

Astronomy, he tells us, is instructive not only by virtue of its exalted subject matter, but also because of its utility in the other sciences.

Since then, his titanic spins on exalted subjects (medieval philosophy, the Kabbalah, the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann) have seemed more pretext than passion.

Talese says that, despite the fame of his larger-than-life portraits of larger-than-life people (Frank Sinatra, Joe DiMaggio), he has often preferred less exalted subjects.

The Morgan's exhibition has more to do with relationships: between creative circles (Europeans and Americans); individuals (H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan Josef Alberss and Jasper Johns); and, most of all, between Mr. Penn and his exalted subjects.

He saw nothing odd or improper in dealing with the most exalted subjects and then turning to the more ordinary task of telling students to avoid jargon and cliches, and advising them about quotations and footnotes.

Through it all an old man sleeps, an example of the human touch that Rembrandt brought even to exalted religious subjects.

Likewise, even the Met's most exalted achievements are subject to relentless rounds of second-guessing.

No matter how exalted or banal the subject, Merkin never fails to underscore the phylogenic consequences of an ontogenic decision.

Extremes of human nature, dire and exalted, are the subjects of Bradford Cox's songs for his band Deerhunter; and extremes of sound, consonant and bristling, are his vehicle.

It's a well-worn cliche for biographers to bestow exalted epithets on their subjects: Almost every title declares its hero to be the sage of something or the oracle of something else.