high-minded

How To Use high-minded In A Sentence

• The pursuit of such metaphysical questions is just a high-minded distraction from the more pressing issue of confronting the dilemma of one's existence here and now.
• The exact particulars of the similarity never came to light, but apparently the lady had, in a fit of high-minded inadvertence, had gone through the ceremony of marriage with, one quotes the unpublished discourse of Mr. Butteridge — “a white-livered skunk,” and this zoological aberration did in some legal and vexatious manner mar her social happines. The War in the Air
• John Milton, the high-minded creator of "Paradise Lost," along with some of the most celebrated sonnets, elegies and other written works in the English Language, may have also written the decidedly low-minded poem "An Extempore Upon a Faggot. John Lundberg: Scholar Unearths a Dirty Milton Poem
• he talks high-mindedly, but we don't know whether he acts according to his principles
• Academe was once thought too high-minded for such cheapening accommodations, but apparently that is no longer so.
• Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around. Stray Studies from England and Italy
• The rhetoric that accompanies high-minded discussions of the deficit has grown shopworn.
• While her uncompromising attitude should be applauded, it is also her undoing because once again she falls into the trap of making a high-minded concept album that is too long.
• Despite their credentialed heft, the panelists quickly resorted to high-minded drivel.
• High-minded though it may be to demand of the majority community to alone bear the burden of secularism, the minorities must do some heart-searching on their own to ask whether their expectations are fair and equitable.