high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I questioned him, expecting some high-flown words. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
These high-flown maxims astonished Louis de Camors. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
So, is high-flown thinking an ingredient in elitism?. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Alderman: What's an Elitist Anyway?] Reference
Not a deal made; it was all a high-flown sort of thing. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks At Reception For Supporters Of 1993 Budget] Reference
The high-flown die just as readily as any Bottom Feeders. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness of the Light] Reference
He had no sympathy with high-flown sermons which shut out the. From Wordnik.com. [Little Abe Or, The Bishop of Berry Brow] Reference
It was all very high-flown and impossible, but it suited Charles Aston. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
For the rest, those who have read the high-flown manifestoes of the Sinn. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
This all sounds pretty high-flown, but let me tell you, it's really personal. From Wordnik.com. [President To St Louis Residents] Reference
'That's very fine and high-flown; but I am ashamed of my father, at any rate. From Wordnik.com. [Sarah's School Friend] Reference
Inevitably, high-flown statements do not always reflect the mood on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Water, War and Politics] Reference
These high-flown Spanish compliments were all very well, but they could be overdone. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
These high-flown lectures and discussions have filled all their heads with nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Full of laughter and high-flown ideas and private thoughts he would only share with Mum. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
The charge will be high treason, and your own high-flown actions will have convicted you. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Hamlet begins boasting, in high-flown language, of what great things he would be able to do. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
She had argued, and of course in vain, against his high-flown admiration of the village belle. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
He brings both the high-flown hokum of Reagan and the rather menacing shrewdness of Bill Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [The Ghost (s): Of Tony Blair, Roman Polanski, and A War on Terror] Reference
Richardson was unacquainted with aristocratic habits, and his high-flown love scenes were purely ideal. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
I had gone down to a lake at the bottom of the garden to indulge in high-flown meditations; and Charles. From Wordnik.com. [A Grandmother's Recollections] Reference
The absurd, high-flown conversational rhapsodies in the average Anglo-Indian novel are purely imaginary. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
True, these were not the Portland upper crust, posturing and making business deals and debating high-flown ideas. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
The greatest challenge facing the institutions of the EU, however, has little to do with such high-flown language. From Wordnik.com. [It's Time To Let In Some Light] Reference
Some of his sentences, as I read them over, appear stilted and high-flown, but they did not sound so when uttered. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
As this rather high-flown passage might not be generally intelligible to our readers, we will put it into plain English. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
He owed his social success to a rather high-flown love letter which he evidently thought too good to be lost to the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Up to me, you made clear when you left and a cave, hollowed out, this cueva -- rocked and rounded in parts, high-flown vault. From Wordnik.com. [Cavern-carver] Reference
They debate high-flown ideas as if such things as justice and social morality can actually be resolved by talking over drinks. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
Laura was sentimental, sensitive, rather high-flown, very shy, and self-conscious; it was not in her to understand Josey at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference
Miss Edgeworth needed to decry sentimental and high-flown feelings, -- the Miss Edgeworth of to-day would need to uphold romance. From Wordnik.com. [Stray Thoughts for Girls] Reference
Present taste would pronounce this effusion to be extravagant, rhapsodical, high-flown, super-sentimental, but it did not read so to. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Among politicians, there is the idealism of high-flown speechmaking, in which crowds are stirringly summoned to support great things. From Wordnik.com. [Palin Speaks, Republicans Cheer] Reference
They will indite laws and issue high-flown worded decrees that nobody will take the trouble to carry out -- because revolution has come. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
Nobody with an ounce of sense ever believed all the high-flown rhetoric that the Union's officials say about their miserable institutions. From Wordnik.com. [The End Of A Really Bad Year] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.