Exalted in a sentence as an adjective

We lose our exalted position of power as one of the enlightened who "know". Don't get me wrong.

Now that you've 'enjoyed' the exalted Director status, ideally where do you want to go from here? What would stretch you professionally?

Women coming into IT should be exalted, because when they're the 1% it means that 99% of them got into the business to try to become great. When you're 99% of the people in the industry, it means 98% of you are simply there to earn a pay check.

You seem to desire a world where Square is exalted to some sort of sovereign status, answerable to no law beyond their own policies and procedures. Which is a horrifying state of affairs.

The exalted status of Javascript is merely a convenient local optimum.

It's just that Yahoo and other blue-label firms have an exalted notion of who should work with them. They tend to go for the fashionable set; the english speaking, high fiving crowd of self labelled developers who cant code themselves out of a paper bag.

Never before has political correctness and "fitting in" been so exalted. In fact Facebook is a direct consequence of this behavior.

] Now a startup operating out of a garage in Silicon Valley would feel part of an exalted tradition, like the poet in his garret, or the painter who can't afford to heat his studio and thus has to wear a beret indoors. But in 1976 it didn't seem so cool.

So yeah, this article is just some FUD that tries to place programmers on some sort of exalted pedastal without realizing that they're just doing what people have been doing in other professions for decades.

The second school of thought ended up winning in the Muslim world because it exalted the Will of God as ultimate and without competition. Philosophical and scientific inquiry were squelched, but fortunately this happened after the great works of the first school had already passed into Christian hands.

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy as an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy; neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water." J. Gardner

Wolfram was once a near-monopoly in computer-aided mathematics, but their exalted position is fast eroding, diminished by free alternatives like Sage. Wolfram's response has been to package their product in increasingly ingenious ways, as with Wolfram Alpha, which has been quite successful.

You think they'd be in favor of giving up the autonomy of their countries to decide for themselves what social norms to adhere to, so as to elevate to an exalted status a set of norms determined mostly by other people?

It's yet another example of how the New York Times which complains so much about the hardships it is suffering in the new media economy has brought most of the problem on itself by no longer being worthy of its once-exalted status.

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently.

To any reader that is familiar with his writing, it'll come across as the typical Apple cheerleading, suggesting that weaknesses are actually strengths, and any competition isn't really competition because Apple is really just engaged in a long-term, visionary, eleventy-dimensional chess match in its noble and exalted goal of driving the human race forward. But I agree with him on the first two misconceptions he tries to correct.

With physical classrooms, you need hundreds of universities, but once a few universities are teaching an online Algorithms course in which thousands of people can enroll, it may be hard for additional universities, especially those with less exalted brand names than Stanford, to attract interest/students.

There are a bunch of counter-arguments one could give to this complaint, ranging from vague promises of long-term usefulness, through the idea that pure math is a intimate bed-follow of critical thinking and so its practice should be exalted, to the notion that theorems of higher mathematics are somehow art-forms, albiet esoteric ones, worthy of state support. Another point might be that pure math is often practiced by people who are deliberately avoiding the real world, who want a fantasy land to be clever in, and they'd be off doing something else rarefied if there weren't math departments.

Exalted definitions

adjective

of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"