What's the difference between exalted and lofty?

Exalted


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Exalt
  • (a.) Raised to lofty height; elevated; extolled; refined; dignified; sublime.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This "paradox of redistribution" was certainly observable in Britain, where Welfare retained its status as one of the 20th century's most exalted creations, even while those claiming benefits were treated with ever greater contempt.
  • (2) Those with no idea of what he looks like might struggle to identify this modest figure as one of the world's most exalted film-makers, or the red devil loathed by rightwing pundits from Michael Gove down.
  • (3) To stand virtuously in the grandstand looking down upon a world whose best efforts in inevitably imperfect times can never match your own exalted standards is a definition of irrelevance, not virtue.
  • (4) Children are taught to exalt Assad and his father, while schoolbooks describe Syria as one of the most powerful nations on the planet.
  • (5) So where is the left-lurching that the Tories allege, with Charles Falconer, Tristram Hunt and Douglas Alexander all exalted?
  • (6) It has exalted the lowly and brought down the mighty from their seats.
  • (7) Whether witnessed close-up, as in Mitchell's case, or from afar, in the exaltation of Sir Ranulph as he escorts his wig to the Antarctic, a narrow model of male prowess is actively damaging huge numbers of non-dominant, powerless or jobless men, who struggle, the charity explains, when they are unable to meet expectations.
  • (8) Good cause Twenty years after our vague encounter in the prison classroom Clarke and I meet again – no bodyguards this time, just the two of us in the more exalted environs of the Cabinet Office.
  • (9) Immunization of rabbits with the antigens without the adjuvant not only failed to inhibit but, contrariwise, enhanced the multiplication of intradermally inoculated vaccinia virus, inducing heavy skin lesions and exalted virus multiplication.
  • (10) Alteration of the signal parameters inducing the sensation of the sound image movement, was found to lead to exaltation of amplitudes of the N1 and P2 components.
  • (11) Phenomenon of learning exaltation in ontogeny was supposed to be connected with the high level of activity of perception and association cerebral mechanisms being the result of immaturity of inhibitory structures.
  • (12) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
  • (13) Yet the meaning is unclear, a fillip of animal optimism after a book-length, clear-eyed exaltation of Nature as a chemical and molecular and mathematical construct - Nature seized in the tightening grip of science, and stripped of the pathetic fallacy even in the sophisticated form in which Emerson's Neoplatonism couched it.
  • (14) The Labour leader, Harold Wilson, insisted that it revealed 'the sickness of an unrepresentative sector of our society' and called for 'the replacement of materialism and the worship of the golden calf by values which exalt the spirit of service and the spirit of national dedication'.
  • (15) Among such exalted company, it was Ranieri’s capacity to bring people together that marked him apart.
  • (16) Considering that the outspoken Mourinho had informed his players at the interval that they would win 2-0, such a goal would have left the rest of us powerless to dispute this remarkable manager's exalted opinion of himself.
  • (17) The first type is characterized by the intensive secondary facilitation which is transformed into exaltation, late depression being absent.
  • (18) Apart from the company’s Nazi past, its high status in German life, its hitherto exalted reputation for technical excellence and quality control, and its peculiarly dysfunctional governance, there is also the shock to consumers of discovering that while its vehicles are made from steel and composite materials, they are actually controlled by software.
  • (19) Where music clearly does take on an exalted sense is in the two stories "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk", and "Investigations of a Do".
  • (20) In a week that has seen at least 40 die and escalating violence in Homs, the country's third largest city, state radio and private stations owned by regime cronies have been blaring out songs exalting Bashar al-Assad as "Abu Hafez", suggesting his son Hafez could succeed him, or anointing him president for "all eternity".

Lofty


Definition:

  • (superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
  • (superl.) Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An Israeli commentator said of the first of them: "when one looks through all the lofty phraseology, all the deliberate disinformation, the hundreds of pettifogging sections, sub-sections, appendices and protocols, one clearly recognises that the Israeli victory was absolute and Palestine defeat abject."
  • (2) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.
  • (3) "The BBC's bosses dropped the lofty Oxbridge langour that had been their trademark to set off in hot pursuit of our children," he said.
  • (4) Progressive politicians should be very careful not to be lofty and metropolitan about this, it's a totally understandable reflex."
  • (5) David Zaslav, chief executive of the US cable giant, kept his cards close to his chest on the Channel 5 sale process, where Discovery is considered to be a frontrunner among buyers offering much less than Desmond's lofty £700m-plus target.
  • (6) In Albini’s view, these plans may prove lofty but misdirected.
  • (7) His church is looked down upon by a lofty bronze of Jefferson Davis, last president of the confederacy, white supremacist and owner of 100 slaves.
  • (8) Podemos' lofty list of election promises includes doing away with tax havens, establishing a guaranteed minimum income and lowering the retirement age to 60.
  • (9) According to Shannon Loftis, general manager of Microsoft Studios, the idea of producing one game disc that will service a range of platform capabilities is familiar to dev teams.
  • (10) By his own lofty standards Cavendish's return of two stage wins from this year's Tour has been paltry and myriad signs of hitherto unseen fallibility, a team that is clearly not good enough to work in his service and suggestions that his star is on the wane will leave him with much to ponder.
  • (11) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
  • (12) Caruso St John, which previously renovated London's Tate Britain and the Gagosian Paris, plans to convert the old theatre production warehouses into a series of lofty rooms.
  • (13) The game’s been inspired by head-cam footage of drivers and athletes uploaded to YouTube and offers the rather lofty promise of allowing players to “go anywhere and make any experience that they want”.
  • (14) To me this is … ” Once again Johnson feels the need to apologise for something lofty he is about to say.
  • (15) In a world where public figures are lofty and removed from ordinary people, she looks accessible, approachable and touchable.
  • (16) In fact, wet deposition has long been hailed as a possible solution by higher powers, with their lofty pretensions to control the elements.
  • (17) But beyond these very lofty ideals, a staff nurse managed financial management committee can make the nurse manager's life much easier.
  • (18) Many social events leave me with a crick in the neck from gazing up at the ceiling to talk to lofty friends.
  • (19) However, geopolitical, socioeconomical, and medical factors contributed to an increased TB incidence altering this lofty hope.
  • (20) Many of its institutions entered the new millennium accused of social elitism and lofty irrelevance.