Example sentences for: exaltation

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

  • 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.

  • When Henry Ford first constructed the mammoth River Rouge and Highland Park complexes, where automobiles were essentially built from scratch, those factories seemed to many to be symbols of the exaltation of efficiency over all other goals.

  • 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.

  • 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).


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