Sentence examples for no exaltation from inspiring English sources

There's beauty in the writing but no exaltation: "through that smoke and dust figures milled as senselessly as the smoke, villagers and soldiers and small scared black pigs like squealing demons at their feet".

Its current program, to be conducted by Manuel Prestamo, includes the premieres of David Maves's "No, Nonet," Bruce Taub's "Exaltation of Larks," Alicia Terzian's "Yeux Fertiles," German Caceres's "In Memory of Ronald Roseman, Rafael Aponte-Ledeee's "Jardin de Amores" and Gerard Elias's "Fantasy on Gottschalk's Pasquinade".

At its center the film is solemn, even sober: there is no sense of exaltation in the temporary victories the workers score over the bosses, and when a prolonged strike finally erupts into violence, there is no triumph.

But ballet is still an exaltation of women, and a gauzy Romantic image of womanhood, no matter how tweaked with grandeur or anger or rage or seductiveness, remains central to the art.

It's an exaltation of the female form.

War inevitably produces an exaltation of presidential power.

Cardinal Nichols predicts the Pope will issue an exaltation – a teaching document.

Often I experience the most extraordinary impressions, of which nothing can give an idea; nervous exaltation is no doubt the cause, but the effect is like that of opium [which Berlioz, in all probability, knew directly!].

But the depiction of that world in director Stephen Frears' tour de force is no simple condemnation nor exaltation: the charms and moral ambiguities of France's Belle Epoch co-exist in this rendering of a gilded age at its apogee, most completely in the glowing figure of Michelle Pfeiffer as Léa de Lonval, an exquisite courtesan about to age out of her profession.

Yet heartfelt as his sentiments may be, the songs are a letdown: there's neither angst nor exaltation, just tidiness, and no straightforward pop love song as memorable as, for instance, Mr. Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight".

Byrne has no use for rage when left-handed exaltation will do the job just as well.