How To Use High-flown In A Sentence
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But though the embroidery of his conversation was different, the groundwork was the same, and the high-flown and ornate compliments with which the gallant knight of the sixteenth century inter-larded his conversation, were as much the offspring of egotism and self-conceit, as the jargon of the coxcombs of our own days.
The Monastery
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Ms. Albers explains attractions and aesthetic influences in terms of high-flown parallels.
A Fiercely Gifted Artist
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Anyone who has read the Bronte Sisters knows the kind of high-flown passion the Victorians held dear.
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Setting aside the high-flown rhetoric of the age, the issues raised are with us still.
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Zelim assumed this was high-flown philosophy, such as only a monk might understand.
GALILEE
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You sense that he doesn't relish conversation about high-flown topics such as the role of the artist in society—maybe because he now shuns the obvious rhetorical gesture in his speech just as he does in his art.
For Baldessari, Art Imitates Art
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And these values are made tangible through people, for people are the heart of a successful institution - not buildings, not high-flown mission statements or even traditions.
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It contains 823 pages of learned, high-flown, flowery reflections on the glorious if doomed role of the poet in a nasty world, with a high incidence of exclamation marks.
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high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school
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Working people should not allow themselves to be deceived by the high-flown speeches, glossy brochures and fireworks displays.
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Unlike Kurtz, he sees civilization in practical terms rather than through high-flown rhetoric.
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He collects antique Samurai swords, has owned a pet cobra and speaks with a high-flown Massachusetts Brahmin accent.
The Artlessness Of Art Thieves
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She knew that people didn't respond to films for either high-flown aesthetic reasons or ‘moral’ ones, and she waged endless war on critics who claimed they did.
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We're lowly folk now, you and me, not high-flown royal dispatch riders, so we don't want to waste silver taking a room for the night.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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argue in terms of high-flown ideals
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I mean the high-flown term literally: I sent my love across through the clean air down.
TESTIMONIES
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General Valencia, he who pronounced (but two short months ago!) the high-flown and flattering speech to the president, on receiving the sword of honour, has now _pronounced_ in a very different and much clearer manner.
Life in Mexico
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For many poor, young, urban blacks, King was too middle-class and genteel, too Southern, too churchly and high-flown; Malcolm had lived as they had.
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It is tempting under the current circumstances to rush down from our high ground and have a right old go at the BBC - perhaps using rather high-flown and intemperate language.
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His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
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Grayling does himself no favors with his foreword, here called an Epistle, which is written in such a grand, high-flown style and with such immodest ambition "its aspiration and aim the good for humanity and the good of the world" that a casual reader might even call it a sin of pride.
Michael Giltz: The Bible 2.0? A Humanist Bible Lays Down The Gauntlet
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However, journalism did not change overnight and it still indulged in the Soviet practice of wordiness and high-flown rhetoric.
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His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
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From hard-edge science fiction to high-flown fantasy, comic books to film noir, high culture to sub-culture… we sink our teeth into it all!
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Whatever high-flown rhetoric comes from the president next week, the reality is clear-cut.
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It was not the last time the high-flown menu prose promised one thing while the actual dish delivered another.
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The day after President Obama's big yearly speech to Congress and the American people, most pundits and talking-head types in the media are vying to outdo each other on stating "what it all means" or similar high-flown overanalysis.
Chris Weigant: Obama's New Ideas
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The day after President Obama's big yearly speech to Congress and the American people, most pundits and talking-head types in the media are vying to outdo each other on stating "what it all means" or similar high-flown overanalysis.
Chris Weigant: Obama's New Ideas
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The only Shakespeare play written entirely in verse, it contrasts the high-flown ideals of Richard with the low cunning of Henry Bolingbroke, the man who overthrows him and later has him murdered.
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In contrast to many postmodernists, who engage in easy forms of parody when addressing the high-flown art of the past, Schütte has actually had the courage to work from inside the tradition - and risk the comparisons.
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Viewed in this light, his high-flown rhetoric about the timeless values of freedom and democracy can seem an abstraction fit only for university debating halls.
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In terms of British theatrical history it represents the last great fling of the high-flown late Victorian tradition most readily associated with Sir Henry Irving.
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His pungent rejoinders made short work of the Government's high-flown theories.
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In 1787 he met Mrs M'Lehose, with whom he corresponded at length in high-flown terms, addressing her as ‘Clarinda’, signing himself ‘Sylvander’.
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In other words, you can say anything you want out on the campaign trail, in as high-flown language as you'd like to use; but once the shouting is all over, it's often very hard (if not impossible) to make good on these promises when confronted with the way Washington actually works.
Chris Weigant: Tea Partiers Should Prepare for Disappointment
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high-flown ideas about the history of Christianity.
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I should know by now that heavy drinkers are awfully fond of high-flown rationalisations for any brief spell of abstinence.
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The language they used was high-flown - some would say overblown.
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I believe Thomas has it in him to be a popular artist, if he can just put aside some of his high-flown notions.
SACRAMENT
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Plans for a merger between Amicus and the TGWU, and possibly the GMB trade unions were announced recently with some high-flown oratory from Tony Woodley, the TGWU general secretary.
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His high-flown style just sounds absurd today.
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The cultural supplements of Germany's newspapers, always fond of high-flown debates, will have their work cut out for them this summer.
