exalts

• “Life, 'one of the most notable in English, exalts earthly Love as the central force in the world and in rather fragmentary fashion traces the tragic influence of Change in both life and love.”

  A History of English Literature

• “Thus the First Amendment's very first phrase exalts freedom from Religion, ie separation of church and state, a phrase coined by Jefferson, demanded by the new nation as a whole.”

  The Huffington Post: Harvey Wasserman: The Tea Party/GOP Would Hate Our Actual Founders

• “True religion exalts a nation; such sinful entertainments are a reproach, and will, in time, be the ruin of any people.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Renegade History of the United States

• “Her name is Miriam and her song exalts not appetite, but God.”

  The Huffington Post: Rabbi David Wolpe: Redefining Heroism In The Era Of Celebrity-Worship

• “But rapture theology exalts imperial powers as long as they conform to an imagined prophetic script.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard T. Hughes: Revelation, Revolutions And The Tyrannical New World Order

• “But rapture theology exalts only Christians -- and fundamental, born-again Christians at that -- at the expense of everyone else.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard T. Hughes: Revelation, Revolutions And The Tyrannical New World Order

• “According to the Bible, the kingdom of God exalts the poor at the expense of the rich.”

  The Huffington Post: Richard T. Hughes: Revelation, Revolutions And The Tyrannical New World Order

• “It even exalts them, and makes them feel that they are finer and better, though at the same time it drags them down and makes them more beastly than ever.”

  DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT

• “Not unexpectedly, then, London advances a theory which also exalts the heroism of a white woman.”

  “The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction

• “This crypto-Manicheanism leads to all sorts of philosophical error, like "The Cult of the Cerebral," a modern form of gnosticism that exalts the Mind and over the body, the notion that we will one day "upload" our souls (minds) into computers; or the notion that there isn't a ghost in the machine at all, just a machine and everything can be reduced to mechanics.”

  February 12th, 2009

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