Word: exalted
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...nation, if, instead of giving honor to God, we exalt human ideas above God and extol the powers of this world as though they were all-powerful...
...Brogan's The English People: "Brogan does wholeheartedly believe there is one thing that both England and America have in common. That is a sincere belief that 'righteousness' does in fact exalt a nation. And he seems to thank the Lord that both the Americans and British have come to realize that without each other the victory that we all deem is impending would not be possible...
...Kicked Upstairs" is not a hit, nor will it be when and if the first act is improved so that the actors take over the play more smoothly and speedily. The attempt to exalt Pusey to the sacrificial pedestal, and perhaps to develop a theme of "blood will tell" is unsuccessful and out of place. But if the management could close off the first and second balconies, "Kicked Upstairs" might furnish an orchestral full house with an inane and entertaining evening...
Holy Fifth Column. Richelieu's foreign policy had two interlocking parts: 1) to unify France under an absolute monarchy; 2) to break the power of the Austrian and Spanish Habsburgs and exalt the Bourbons. Up & down the rutted roads and cow paths of Europe padded barefoot Father Joseph. He visited kings, the Pope, rebellious nobles, foreign agents. The Pope made him Apostolic Commissary of Missions...
...visit Berlin, Il Corriere Padano cracked: "If Lenin first, and Stalin afterward set eyes on him, it was simply because they judged him an exceptional gangster. For us, Voroshilov and his equals, like all carrion of Bolshevik Russia, do not interest us a bit. If among themselves they exalt or destroy one another, that is their affair. At worst there will be one less criminal going around the world...