Sentence examples for moral elevation from inspiring English sources

Or the more life-affirming, truth-telling, profound "moral elevation" that Harold Bloom finds in Falstaff?

This does not mark an improvement in the discourse, for all the self-satisfied back-patting over the claims of devotion to the electorate's moral elevation.

Football is ripe for satire, of course, with its undisguised militarism, its unfamiliarity with the language of irony, its Lombardi-esque moral elevation of stakes that are, in the end, imaginary.

C. 1170 c. 1220 Wolfram von Eschenbach, (born c. 1170 died c. 1220), German poet whose epic Parzival, distinguished alike by its moral elevation and its imaginative power, is one of the most profound literary works of the Middle Ages.

Wolfram von Eschenbach, (born c. 1170 died c. 1220) German poet whose epic Parzival, distinguished alike by its moral elevation and its imaginative power, is one of the most profound literary works of the Middle Ages.

Such a system "starts men in the race for improvement…seeks their moral elevation, and aims to strengthen their souls" (140).

These potentiality accounts, like the accounts in 4.1, avoid anthropocentrism without according most animals the same elevation in moral status.

"The elevation of bluntness to a moral ideal," wrote Ian Buruma in his book on the Van Gogh killing, Murder in Amsterdam, "is a common trait in Dutch behaviour".

It seems to have become, in their minds, like an ancient tribal rite — the purging of sin, the elevation of the pure, the moral regeneration of the nation's soul.

Our current moral culture, as I understand the term, includes the elevation of wealth and commerce over all other considerations; the open neglect of the disadvantaged; the redefinition of American power away from moral authority and toward military might; the worship of American exceptionalism; and the threat of evangelical totalitarianism as social policy.

It marked a turning point in the modern world view, including "the elevation of irony to a standard mode of apprehending the world, the unbuttoning of moral codes and the conscious embrace of the irrational".