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Example sentences for: uplift

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Merengue is terrific music, too, but when, half a century ago, Trujillo ordered that sound systems be set up to play it all over the Dominican Republic, it wasn't to "uplift" people but to render them passive.
As soon as you "get" the joke, say, of Gavin Turk depicting himself in a waxwork as Johnny Rotten, in the pose of Warhol's portrait of Elvis, there is not much left for aesthetic uplift.
But when ripe feminine curves came back into fashion in the '30s, there appeared the double-breasted and cantilevered bra--the "uplift" bra.
He called for a series of programs, including full employment and a guaranteed annual income, to uplift the poor of all races.
Enough seaminess: For moral uplift, check out Sunday's Passing Glory (TNT, 8 p.m.).