uplift

A lot of uplift would be expected, they say, if the eruptions were due to new magma pumping to the surface.

After all, both were in the 1930s, both involved kids wearing uniforms, both movements professed the goal of social uplift.

Best line: “No amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey.”

There was only the perpetual effort to improve the self and uplift the race.

For one thing, the Obamas and Cosby were speaking to—and hoping to uplift—black audiences.

And our comic books and movies, too, can uplift and enrich, or shape a disturbed imagination.

Life had taught him that real riches and power only have value as they work for social uplift.

I see and hear no advocacy of Socialism whose burden is not the uplift of humanity.

Look back, young man, on the darksome turrets of your father's house, which uplift themselves above the sons of their people.

There is nothing so practical to uplift men or races as Christianity.

The little uplift of mood, coincident with the rifling of Riggs's person, had not worn over to this evening camp.