Sentence examples for very exalted from inspiring English sources

As for his motives, he cheerfully owns up to them in the preface to his first collection: The stories themselves do not make any very exalted claim.

In his quiet way Weatherill had a very exalted view of democracy; he was the antithetical enemy of what George Orwell called power worship.

In the Adagio, with a keening oboe solo from Cristina Gomez, the sense of Bruckner's solitariness was immense, and the execution and interpretation at times very exalted.

His notion of love is a very exalted one: even while she was alive, Beatrice was pictured as an angelic presence, and after her death, Dante gave her the role of his divine guide in La divina commedia.

McCrum begins with the birthplace of English, which, as George Orwell observed, has always had several overlapping denominations: "We call our islands by no less than six different names, England, Britain, Great Britain, the British Isles, the United Kingdom and, in very exalted moments, Albion".

It is easy to detach the fine passages from their context, but in Urn Burial this character, this quality of the whole, though it expresses itself with all the charm of all the Muses, is yet of a very exalted kind.

We know it by letters, by testimonies, by archives -- that women together had very strong and exalted links.

The Irish presidency will never go back to the remote, exalted, not very busy office it was before I was elected.

The contemporary French author Grégoire Bouillier is too self-mocking by half to claim membership in this exalted club; his very pretensions to intellectual activity are, in his telling, a source less of honor than of horreur.

Upon arrival, however, we found not merely the big-bore locals but also an American diplomat, not a very senior one, but still exalted enough to allow himself proconsular airs, his staff galloping around him as if he were ordering dispositions in battle, and not merely another whiskey soda.

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.