Example sentences for: exaltation

How can you use “exaltation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Still, there are some reasons to prefer the 19 th century's embrace of partisanship to today's exaltation of the conscience-serving, hyper-responsible individual--or what I once heard called the "David Broder/League of Women Voters school of politics."

  • Actually, what I hope to dispel isn't pre-Darwinian mystery, but a kind of post-Darwinian mysticism, a confused exaltation of genetic affinity.

  • Religious leaders, especially conservative Christians, have long been suspicious of environmentalism, seeing links between its exaltation of nature and pagan traditions.

  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, stereoscope enthusiast, wrote of the experience that “the shutting out of surrounding objects, and the concentration of the whole attention, which is a consequence of this, produce a dreamlike exaltation…in which we seem to leave the body behind us and sail away into one strange scene after another, like disembodied spirits” (Holmes 1861).

  • a heinous redistribution of wealth, [and] the exaltation of capital" (John Anderson, Newsday ). (Click here for the full Monty .)


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