It was not elevated language or deep feelings that were asked of me.

Today one encounters among poets a widespread fear of elevated language - or rhetoric of any kind.

Potter uses elevated language again when the rabbit family is described as "improvident and cheerful".

France notes the contrast between this humble greeting of Jesus' with the elevated language of the angel at Matthew 28:5-6.

These are nearly Victorian sentiments rendered in an elevated, "poetical" language ("the fraying dusk of childhood").

It does begin in medias res, but is not always written in elevated language.

She constantly flatters everyone around her, and speaks in elevated language; her "new word" is "divoon."

For much of its history there has been a distinction in the English language between an elevated literary language and a colloquial language.

Ms. Clampitt, for all her refined, sometimes dizzily elevated language, is a poet of history and politics, not simply of sensibility.

All speak an oddly elevated language that invites both mockery and affection.