Exalted
in sentence
106 examples of Exalted in a sentence
How could Khrushchev dare challenge Stalin’s
exalted
status (and, by extension, threaten Mao with a similar fate)?
In a sense, the inclusion of Xi’s name and thought in the CPC constitution delivered to him the
exalted
status of the People’s Republic’s founding father, Mao Zedong, as well as the architect of China’s modernization, Deng Xiaoping – the only two other leaders mentioned in the document.
In all he said, thought, or did, she saw something peculiarly noble and
exalted.
"He that humbleth himself shall be exalted," and you must not thank me! – You must thank Him, and ask Him for help.
Hunger
exalted
their heads; never had the low horizon opened a larger beyond to these people in the hallucination of their misery.
His head became exalted, a red gaiety arose out of his crisis of black sadness, chasing away doubt, and making him ashamed of this passing cowardice of an hour.
These aristocrats deem themselves the sons of crocodiles, in other words, descendants with the most
exalted
origins to which a human being can lay claim.
She was irritated by an ill-served dish or by a half-open door; bewailed the velvets she had not, the happiness she had missed, her too
exalted
dreams, her narrow home.
So he gave up his flute,
exalted
sentiments, and poetry; for every bourgeois in the flush of his youth, were it but for a day, a moment, has believed himself capable of immense passions, of lofty enterprises.
He thinks me unfit to be a priest, at the very moment when I imagined that the sacrifice of an income of fifty louis was going to give him the most
exalted
idea of my piety and my vocation.
If I wish to be esteemed by them and by myself, I must show them that it is my poverty that deals with their wealth, but that my heart is a thousand leagues away from their insolence, and is placed in too
exalted
a sphere to be reached by their petty marks of contempt or favour.'
Madame de Renal was
exalted
by transports of the most lofty moral pleasure.
'Yes, my friend, the most
exalted
strain of piety.
Interspersed with quotations from Horace, Monseigneur paid him, with regard to the
exalted
destiny that awaited him in Paris, a number of very neat compliments, which required an explanation if he were to express his thanks.
His expression became more and more embarrassed, for now at last, in spite of all his efforts, he could not avoid hearing them, and however slight his experience might be, he realised the full importance of the matters that were being discussed without any attempt at concealment; and yet how careful the evidently
exalted
personages whom he saw before him ought to be to keep them secret.
'Nothing easier, it seems to me, than to sum up our position,' said the young Bishop of Agde with the concentrated and restrained fire of the most
exalted
fanaticism.
With the distinction of being under sentence of death, this handsome foreigner combined abundant gravity and had the good fortune to be devout; these two merits and, more than all, the
exalted
birth of the Count were entirely to the taste of Madame de Fervaques, who saw much of him.
The least sign of sensibility would have been in her eyes like a sort of moral intoxication for which one ought to blush, and which was highly damaging to what a person of
exalted
rank owed to herself.
I inherit from you a spirit too
exalted
to let my attention be arrested by what is or seems to me vulgar.
To fling herself on her knees to crave pardon for Julien, in front of the King's carriage as it came by at a gallop, to attract the royal attention, at the risk of a thousand deaths, was one of the tamest fancies of this
exalted
and courageous imagination.
The matron, whose name had thus been
exalted
to an office of such unexpected dignity, ordinarily discharged the duties of a female sutler, washerwoman, and, to use the language of Katy Haynes, petticoat doctor to the troops.
Tom sulked in a corner and
exalted
his woes.
For frivolity and jokes and spotted tights were an offense, when they intruded themselves upon a spirit that was
exalted
into the vague august realm of the romantic.
He then felt her smock, and although it was of sackcloth it appeared to him to be of the finest and softest silk: on her wrists she wore some glass beads, but to him they had the sheen of precious Orient pearls: her hair, which in some measure resembled a horse's mane, he rated as threads of the brightest gold of Araby, whose refulgence dimmed the sun himself: her breath, which no doubt smelt of yesterday's stale salad, seemed to him to diffuse a sweet aromatic fragrance from her mouth; and, in short, he drew her portrait in his imagination with the same features and in the same style as that which he had seen in his books of the other princesses who, smitten by love, came with all the adornments that are here set down, to see the sorely wounded knight; and so great was the poor gentleman's blindness that neither touch, nor smell, nor anything else about the good lass that would have made any but a carrier vomit, were enough to undeceive him; on the contrary, he was persuaded he had the goddess of beauty in his arms, and holding her firmly in his grasp he went on to say in low, tender voice:"Would that found myself, lovely and
exalted
lady, in a position to repay such a favour as that which you, by the sight of your great beauty, have granted me; but fortune, which is never weary of persecuting the good, has chosen to place me upon this bed, where I lie so bruised and broken that though my inclination would gladly comply with yours it is impossible; besides, to this impossibility another yet greater is to be added, which is the faith that I have pledged to the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso, sole lady of my most secret thoughts; and were it not that this stood in the way I should not be so insensible a knight as to miss the happy opportunity which your great goodness has offered me."Maritornes was fretting and sweating at finding herself held so fast by Don Quixote, and not understanding or heeding the words he addressed to her, she strove without speaking to free herself.
WHICH TREATS OF THE
EXALTED
ADVENTURE AND RICH PRIZE OF MAMBRINO'S HELMET, TOGETHER WITH OTHER THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO OUR INVINCIBLE KNIGHTIt now began to rain a little, and Sancho was for going into the fulling mills, but Don Quixote had taken such an abhorrence to them on account of the late joke that he would not enter them on any account; so turning aside to right they came upon another road, different from that which they had taken the night before.
And here comes in at once the bestowal of rewards upon his squire and all who have aided him in rising to so
exalted
a rank.
Queen Madasima was a very illustrious lady, and it is not to be supposed that so
exalted
a princess would have made free with a quack; and whoever maintains the contrary lies like a great scoundrel, and I will give him to know it, on foot or on horseback, armed or unarmed, by night or by day, or as he likes best."
In the same way, Sancho, for all I want with Dulcinea del Toboso she is just as good as the most
exalted
princess on earth.
Nothing of the kind; they only invent them for the most part to furnish a subject for their verses, and that they may pass for lovers, or for men valiant enough to be so; and so it suffices me to think and believe that the good Aldonza Lorenzo is fair and virtuous; and as to her pedigree it is very little matter, for no one will examine into it for the purpose of conferring any order upon her, and I, for my part, reckon her the most
exalted
princess in the world.
"Listen," said Don Quixote, "this is what it says:"DON QUIXOTE'S LETTER TO DULCINEA DEL TOBOSO"Sovereign and
exalted
Lady,—The pierced by the point of absence, the wounded to the heart's core, sends thee, sweetest Dulcinea del Toboso, the health that he himself enjoys not.
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