Word: exaltingly
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...much of the 2½-hour Garden concerts as the fans and the band urged each other on. Among contemporary musicians, only Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band have the same force. They share a kindred commitment to the fans, and a similar ambition: to shake up and exalt the audience, to disturb the peace. This kind of rock-'n'-roll communion is strictly hardcore. The limousine crowd does not turn out in force for a Who date, and the concerts are not likely to be the topic of lively debate around Elaine's. Leave that...
...interesting to consider the words of the biblical Prophet Obadiah: "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and set thy nest among the stars, from thence will I pull thee down, sayeth the Lord...
John Paul opposes Western consumerism and Marxist economic determinism because they exalt materialism at the expense of the spirit and undermine the dignity of the individual human being, established for all time by Jesus Christ's redeeming death on the cross: "[Man] cannot become the slave of things, the slave of economic systems, the slave of production," he writes...
...finally happened in our day: mankind has accomplished one of his dreams. He has managed to remove completely the importance of the traditional Sunday and exalt a new Sun Day. The Creation is now back to being worshiped over the Creator, complete with incantations and "high places" of gathering...
...week at a thoroughly Episcopal church in Darien, Conn.,.an almost stereotypically proper and affluent Northeastern suburb. The speaker, Lee Buck, 54, is a senior vice president of the New York Life Insurance Co. "Before, I wanted to be successful in the world," says Buck. "Now I want to exalt the Lord. I want to stay a businessman, but I want people to know that God changes lives. You don't drop out of the world because you become a Christian." Buck now spends his free time preaching to far-flung church and business groups...