Example sentences for: exaltation

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

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

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

  • The Morris emphasis on the handmade, the rough-hewed, and the handed-down--what Thorstein Veblen, a year after Burne-Jones' death, wickedly called the "exaltation of the defective"--did not reverse the Industrial Revolution.

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

  • 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."


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