ADJECTIVE
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pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school
a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution
How To Use high-sounding In A Sentence
- This high-sounding rhetoric is all well and good as theory, but it goes only so far in the real world, as other passing novelists point out.
- That would effectively allow them to by-pass under the radar any direct controversy over the Catholic moral objections, kind of the way that the Soviets used all manner of high-sounding charges against Christians in the old days, when to everyone it was obvious their crime was their faith and nothing more. Pres. Obama to rescind "conscience" regulation
- Was my friend sent to Iraq for high-sounding words or to steal oil? Gareth Harris: Why Politicians Love Religion's War on Science
- The problem with uttering such high-sounding rubbish is that a thousand - no, a million - fools can always be found to believe it.
- For beneath the high-sounding arguments lurks a far more sordid reality.
- Hurwitz came onstage and spouted high-sounding phrases for 45 minutes.
- Despite their high-sounding rhetoric, however, initial reforms were halting, and throughout the 1990s Ukraine endured severe stagnation.
- Our leaders have at last realised that the voter expects more than high-sounding speeches and slogans.
- Divested of their high-sounding platitudes, these programs were intended to train the nation's future leaders.
- Sure, again and again, I betrayed my own high-sounding calls for social justice and economic fairness.
