(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".
Rhapsody
Definition:
(n.) A recitation or song of a rhapsodist; a portion of an epic poem adapted for recitation, or usually recited, at one time; hence, a division of the Iliad or the Odyssey; -- called also a book.
(n.) A disconnected series of sentences or statements composed under excitement, and without dependence or natural connection; rambling composition.
(n.) A composition irregular in form, like an improvisation; as, Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies."
Example Sentences:
(1) I popped in for a nightcap but end up staying for two hours, serenaded by locals murdering everything from Japanese power ballads to cheesy Brazilian pop and Bohemian Rhapsody.
(2) Although the band's previous albums are available, songs like Paradise and Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall are nowhere to be found on Spotify , nor on competitors like Rdio and Rhapsody .
(3) You had to go back to the year 1975, when Bohemian Rhapsody topped the charts, to find the last time Britain was in a double-dip recession – and Freddie Mercury's lyrics seemed particularly apposite for the many City analysts left with egg on their face by the dire performance of the economy in the first three months of 2012.
(4) Swift has spoken previously about her allegiance to other online services, such as Beats Music and Rhapsody, both of which require a premium package in order to access albums.
(5) Spotify’s rivals in the streaming music market include Deezer, which has 12m active users and 5m paying subscribers , and Rhapsody, which has 1.7m paying subscribers around the world, split between its Rhapsody and Napster brands.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bohemian Rhapsody The whole thing is genius, but Piggy's ending will change the way you hear the original version of this song, for ever.
(7) The page is a mixture: of meme-style science illustrations (an image of floating, sleeping otters overlaid with the words: "Sea otters hold hands when they sleep so they don't drift away from each other… they also rape baby seals to death"); of plain-speaking summaries of the latest research ("Researchers have discovered how and where imagination originates in the brain"); and of links to oddities such as a video of a student singing an explanation of string theory to the tune of Bohemian Rhapsody.
(8) By comparison, Spotify has 40m active users including 10m paying subscribers; Deezer has 16m active users including 5m paying subscribers, and Rhapsody has 1.7m paying subscribers split between its service in the US, and its Napster subsidiary elsewhere in the world.
(9) Queen hit the big time in 1975 with their fourth album, A Night at the Opera, which included the Mercury-composed anthem Bohemian Rhapsody.
(10) October 31, 2013 *blasts "Bohemian Rhapsody"* 3.12am GMT Cardinals 1 - Red Sox 6, bottom of the 8th Matheny decides just to intentionally walk David Ortiz one again just for old time's sake.
(11) Schuller is also conducting Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the RSNO.
(12) Recorded at the new Paisley Park studio he had built in 1986 on the outskirts of Minneapolis, Sign was devilishly eclectic, travelling from the doom-saying title track - an unsettling mix of hypnotic electro rhythm, bluesy guitar and fragile, semi-rapped lyric - to the Philly rhapsody of 'Adore' via the frantic power pop of 'I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man'.
(13) For him the next two lines of Bohemian Rhapsody – "caught in a landslide, no escape from reality" – were the ones that sprang to mind following the baleful news from the Office for National Statistics.
(14) She earned $54.40 from 7,908 plays on US service Rhapsody at 0.69 cents per stream, although that included mechanical royalties payments for writing the songs as well as performing them.
(15) iTunes Radio will not be a direct competitor for streaming music services like Spotify, Deezer, Rhapsody and Rdio.
(16) Since the publication of Johann Reil's, Rhapsodies About the Application of Psychotherapy to Mental Disturbances (1803), variations upon this theme of extravagant discourse have received enthusiastic welcomes from the ever enlarging psychiatric audience for whom they are performed...
(17) Gothic romance distilled into four-and-a-half minutes of gaseous rhapsody, this was released as her first single at Bush's insistence in the face of opposition from seasoned and cautious EMI executives; wilfulness vindicated by the month it spent at the top of the charts.
(18) Sonos, for example, has partnerships with Deezer, Rdio, Rhapsody, Pandora, Napster and other digital music services.
(19) The spreadsheet includes payments from Apple's iTunes Match and Amazon's Cloud Drive – 0.2 and 0.05 cents per stream respectively, although as services that let people stream music they already own from cloud lockers, these represent different licensing deals to Spotify, Rhapsody and Xbox Music.
(20) It is the tale of a sentimental saint who began with an inexhaustible supply of human sympathy and produced a handful of powerful but gloomy pictures; who moved to Paris, where he cleaned up his palette, shed some of his sentiment, and became a moderately respectable impressionist; who moved thence to Arles, where he burst, for two hectic years, into flame, and painted the radiant yellow, green, and blue rhapsodies by which we know him; who outlived his stamina but not his passion, and became in St. Rémy and in Auvers exaggeratedly hectic, though the fierce radiance of his colour never deserted him.