[ noun ] the rise of something <noun.event> the uplifting of the clouds revealed the blue of a summer sky
Uplift \Up*lift"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Uplifting}.] To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock. --Cowper.
Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed. --Milton.
It goes in for lots of inspiring photographs and plenty of uplifting aphorisms, all homing in on the wondrous benefits of simplicity. Anybody who is anybody in design circles has a go.
Others called it graceful, warm, haunting and uplifting.
It is a sense of hope, a swelling of pride, an uplifting of spirits in a community that has had more than its share of things to cry about.
The movie's most "uplifting" moment arrives when a Mafioso announces that he hates Nazis and starts killing them.
The driving bass lines, joyous percussion and wailing saxophone join with the Queens' playful, sometimes dissonant, harmonizing to make an uplifting sound designed for dancing.
His best efforts, endlessly revised, remain uplifting, if bitty: their blend of rearguard diatonicism and proselytising text can appear bland. Jeremy Dibble's critical biography - the first for six decades - is as welcome as it is overdue.
Driving just north of Durban through parts of Kwazulu - the Zulu homeland interspersed with Natal - where most of the small growers are, the uplifting potential of the sugar industry is clear.
Growth is the key to raising living standards, to leaving a legacy of prosperity for our children, to uplifting those most in need, and to maintaining America's leadership in the world." That is pretty strong stuff.
"The award recognizes an individual who has had an important impact on contemporary culture and who has in a measurable way made an uplifting contribution to society," said BMI's Frances Preston.
His special achievement was to maintain interest in a programme predominantly dark and melancholy (only one song in the entire evening, Rakhmaninov's 'Spring Waters', was at all uplifting).
It is a solution to the airport design problem that could, by its very simplicity, provide an uplifting architectural experience.