How To Use Highfalutin In A Sentence
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The single text operator (the so-called ampersand) is used in formulas to join together two or more text entries (an operation with the highfalutin 'name concatenation).
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They bring the highfalutin heroic language back down to earth and make it palatable.
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On prior evenings I had found that the most highfalutin dishes succeed the least.
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This isn't highfalutin art-about-art. It's marvellous and adventurous stuff.
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P.S. – "highfalutin" is my safe word with Mistress Jim.
‘MARRIED LIFE’ MIGHT NOT BE PRO MARRIAGE
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This may lead to a greater unwillingness among people in EU nations to listen to the highfaluting ideas of their leaders.
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The phrase may seem at first highfalutin, but it accurately describes the phenomenon, and the phenomenon itself is not a rare thing.
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It's down-home and never highfalutin, slow-cooked and eaten fast, a sometimes sweet and always smoky feast that fills the gut as it feeds the soul.
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‘Advanced education for nail professionals’ may seem like a rather highfalutin subtitle for a magazine about manicuring.
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We have all kinds of highfalutin names for the flesh.
Christianity Today
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Or, as the CDA dictates, should they have to curb their expression -- even certain constitutionally protected speech with redeeming social value like sex education, highfalutin nude art and George Carlin comedy routines -- so that Net-surfing children will not be exposed to so-called patently offensive content?
U.S. V. The Internet
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She affects no artistic airs and harbours few highfalutin’ notions about the mystique or cultural sanctity of opera.
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Another way the film startles is its highfalutin talk about prime numbers, chaos theory and French post-impressionist painters.
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It's kinda less highfalutin than the books I've just finished.
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Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, delivered a statement at what is called the 'High Segment' beginning of the 13th session of the Human Rights Council (I prefer the word 'highfalutin' as it is taken up with speeches by ministers from different States, often repeating the same platitudes).
Jihad Watch
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Jessica was what he called "highfalutin" enough to fit her evident station in life, so he made no comment.
Marjorie at Seacote
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DURING THESE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS, particularly since the advent of the present Government - I am not trying to compare evils, as the previous one was not basically better, but of course there can be bad and worse and so on - there has been more and more legislation of this character, sometimes having these rather highfaluting titles such as University Acts,
STATEMENT IN THE SPECIAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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While some of his ideas might be highfalutin, you would never know it, because the dialogue sounds real and fresh.
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Mostly by implication, the film takes on education and upward mobility; the meaning of competition; our deep ambivalence about highfalutin language; and, of course, the cult of the precocious child.
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HAMMER: The producers of Pam ` s new show are saying it ` s going to be highfaluting.
CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2008
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We have all kinds of highfalutin names for the flesh.
Christianity Today
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'Character' is almost too highfalutin a word sometimes," coach Gregg Popovich says.
USATODAY.com - Spurs are putting it all together
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He prefers a less highfalutin term to describe the way he addresses artifice.
Times, Sunday Times
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But whatever highfalutin label you put on Terkel's technique, it boils down to his ability to relate to people and get them to open up and talk frankly about their lives.
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Although it is all highfalutin balderdash, a semblance of sense does surface here and there - for example, in the scenery and the cast of characters.
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The single text operator (the so-called ampersand) is used in formulas to join together two or more text entries (an operation with the highfalutin 'name concatenation).
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But, while men admire and reverence a sweet and simple feminine soul -- and love her in plays and between the covers of a book and when she is talking highfaluting abstractions of morality -- and wax wroth with any other man who ignores or neglects her -- they do not in their own persons become infatuated with her.
Grain of Dust.
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The man has a talent for spewing highfalutin drivel (mainly in print), and it can taint his otherwise engaging records.
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We in the communities, in the labour movement, in the schools, are saying it is not enough to write highfaluting theories about us, get doctorates in the process, and become so-called experts on this or that organisation or field, to develop your scathing critiques from the safe walls and desks of your professions, and thereby hope to gain acceptance or recognition in our daily struggles.
Children of Resistence
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I murrieta homes for sale nontelescopic stateless teleprompter in the yell of not uncommunicative any way nonheritable what quantifier i was redetermination out of and sexually if i was nullifier the deterministic brisling and the dactylopteridae inhumane a highfaluting anoectochilus.
Rational Review
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What all this highfalutin molecular biology should teach us is that we can't just throw up our hands and say: ‘His genes made him do it.’
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I could offer more highfalutin reasons as well.
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The principal thing is to find out whether there is any connection between that camp, the 'highfalutin' gintleman 'of Uncle Mac, and the detective.
Charred Wood
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In advance of this weekend's IMF-World Bank meetings, the Treasury Secretary merely put a highfalutin gloss on the same old U.S. policy that China's "overvalued" currency is the source of all global economic ills.
Geithner's 'Cooperation'
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Forget all that highfalutin talk about competition and laissez-faire.
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There's no surer way for a writer to make herself look stupid than to employ a highfalutin phrase incorrectly.
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'We air a go-ahead people,' they were not given to 'highfalutin', 'nor did they chew their tobacco.
To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative
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They persuasively argue that in all the generalized and sometimes highfalutin talk about globalization, the central role that women play in the massive migrations that define and sustain the new economy has been ignored.
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He prefers a less highfalutin term to describe the way he addresses artifice.
Times, Sunday Times
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It hardly seems right to watch the Super Bowl while eating the kind of highfalutin fare that excites Michelin-starred chefs.
Super Super Bowl Sandwiches
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Whatever theme Jones claims to explore in his highfalutin program note, the actual choreography lacks depth, structure, musicality - rigor of any kind, really.
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I like to think I'm engaged in a bit of civil disobedience, but that's an awfully highfaluting title for a simple act of citizen outrage.
Why I Don't Pay Washington DC Parking Tickets
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Irked by Viswa's criticisms of the way some ethnic groups are treated in Singapore, LKY interrupted a medical treatment to angrily refute the "highfalutin" speech in a rare appearance on the parliament floor.
SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
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If you call that highfalutin management science, then I am a highfalutin management scientist.
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But no; you wouldn't listen, you with your highfalutin 'notions an' more pairs of shoes than any decent woman should have.
CHAPTER XIV
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I'm fairly confident that the vast majority of my fellow Americans know the word, if at all, only as a part of some weird British institutions; "privy to" is a highfaluting phrase over here and would be used only as a show of erudition, and even those who know the phrase would I suspect be unable to tell you what exactly "privy" means.
Languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS.
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A salad with a sugar-beet mousseline fades against its contemporaries, and a beautifully roasted quail is almost hijacked by too many highfalutin buddies (it's stuffed with dumplings, foie gras, and truffles).
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I don't want to sound highfalutin, but the idea for that came to me from a play I'd seen at the old Vic under Jonathan Miller.
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One voice is a "we" located in the Orthodox community who begins each chapter with highfaluting rumination on some Jewish topic, and goes on to narrate events from the perspectives of Dovid, the cousin, who is afflicted with colorful (literally) migraines, and Esti, the former lover, who appears to be autistic but turns out to be (I think) enlightened.
Archive 2007-03-01
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Like De Quincey, on the other hand, Sharp delights in "fine writing," in both senses of the phrase, in the "highfalutin" that is objectionable, and in the ornately beautiful that is one fitting expression of romantic thought.
Irish Plays and Playwrights
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Two of its high-profile New York debuts -- High Line park, built atop an old rail line, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall -- kept even the most highfalutin tastemakers buzzing.
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Introduction upon the _highfaluting_ style so common among us.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
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Recently, we've seen people start to fret about the looming attention crisis, which is a highfalutin way of saying they're becoming overwhelmed by the number of blogs in their RSS feeds.
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I didn't know you were one of those highfalutin French fellers.
"Hillary just seems like Jerry Lee Lewis to me. And McCain just seems like a complete wackjob. And I guess Obama seems to have some sort of sense..."
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Strike a line through that last sentence or, rather, that last word -- for I am not alone: artists, writers, musicians, plumbers, preachers -- and even highfalutin Frenchmen, can feel the same way and, I suspect, do.
French Word-A-Day:
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Yes, but on the other hand, Bob Dylan can be a bit highfaluting, a bit obscure - who would have thought that Tamborine Man is something to do with a drug dealer or something.
