Maybe it is the contrast between these absurdities, and damehood's cosier, far more inclusive associations with aprons, wisdom, occasional shouts of "behind you", that allows new beneficiaries to exult to a point that might sound immodest were they alluding, say, to a future of being called sir or milord.
They exult in the memory of the seventh and eighth centuries, when they carried the word and the sword of Islam out of the Arabian fastness and built an empire from Persia to the Pyrenees.Related items Waking from its sleepJul 23rd 2009 From the archive: When history passes byMay 12th 1990History, though, can exert a baleful influence.
So, admittedly, are most new presidents, though one should not exult in the fact.
(Retailers exult that they are no longer obliged to speak of "medicine" and "patients").
The real war criminals are the others who exult in killing or intellectualise it.
Exult is building a network that will give BP's staff in more than 40 countries information on all sorts of HR issues.
Exult, set up in 1998 by General Atlantic, a private-equity firm, specialises in running the routine aspects of corporate HR.
Deciding whether and where to introduce coherence is a job for BP's own management, not for Exult.
The body in space is his laboratory, always ripe for experimentation.All of Mr Cunningham's nearly 200 works exult in dance for its own sake, without the trappings of narrative.
Vervet monkeys at the top of their social tree enjoy more mates and bananas as a result, but they also exult in their position for its own sake.
Some acts of worship arise from the need of the worshipper to exult in praise of the holy and to express his joy or gratitude that his situation, in fact, has changed for the better.
