He talks high-mindedly, but we don't know whether he acts according to his principles. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
As she sat bending over Lois now, her attitude was instinct with something high-mindedly lovely. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Smith is one of those writers who get such high-mindedly good reviews that you wonder if he's any fun. From Wordnik.com. [Our Man In Havana] Reference
Dr Rupert high-mindedly declares that the welfare of the White and Black peoples of Africa are indivisible. From Wordnik.com. [reich14] Reference
Now, maybe men tend to pray more high-mindedly than women do, or maybe Obama's is an unusually elevated soul. From Wordnik.com. [Potemkin Prayer] Reference
If the 1930s were, per W.H. Auden's line, a "low, dishonest decade," it was mainly because the 1920s were so high-mindedly self-deceived. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Post-9/11 Looks Just Like Pre-World War II] Reference
Meanwhile, the modern Irish diaspora, Mr. Foster believes, has conquered anew the English-speaking world, though not always high-mindedly. From Wordnik.com. [Burning Bright] Reference
And it the same people who preach high-mindedly about “color-blindness” who will shift into race-baiting mode at the earliest opportunity. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Sotomayor’s “Latina Judge’s Voice” Speech Revisited:] Reference
All of sudden, the pro-affirmative action rhetoric they had high-mindedly used to cut down their red-state counterparts seemed to instantly evaporate in this context. From Wordnik.com. [Leaving one's comfort zone] Reference
The President-elect watched with some amusement while the bankers who had so high-mindedly objected to federal assistance for the unemployed now demanded such assistance for themselves. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Savage: We've Been Down This Road Before: A Great Depression Quiz] Reference
When next you hear a member of Congress rattling on high-mindedly about defending U.S. sovereignty from the WTO, ask if he has received any campaign contributions from U.S. textile interests. From Wordnik.com. [Up From Mercantilism] Reference
DOBBS: Well first he says, don't use this kind of campaigning, then he indulges in it himself, then rather high-mindedly says he's not going to do it apparently after doing it today, is that it?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2008] Reference
One minute I was high-mindedly snickering at a patient who was acting like a typical reality-TV exhibitionist bonehead, and the next I was agape as Dr. Drew pointed out exactly why that behavior could kill them. From Wordnik.com. [Josh Wolk's Pop Culture Club talks 'Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew': Silly, then powerful, then back again | EW.com] Reference
As the paper notes, McCain high-mindedly denounced such tactics when he was the target of them in 2000, and again during the GOP primary this year, when he described the robo-slime being directed at him as "scurrilous stuff.". From Wordnik.com. [Big News Orgs Picking Up On Magnitude Of McCain's Robo-Slime Campaign] Reference
Davis claimed "high-mindedly" that his campaign had had no choice but to respond to Obama's alleged race-card playing, while Axelrod pushed the campaign's new macro-message that the McCain camp had made a clear strategic choice to take the low road. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign Keeps Hitting Obama Over "Race Card"] Reference
The Washington Post, too, has a lengthy editorial today that concludes by calling Allen “an inspiration … to anyone who believes that political campaigns may be won by diversions and dirty tactics, even as the candidate calls high-mindedly for a discussion of ‘the issues.’”. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Conservatives continue Allen smackdown.] Reference
Putting it even more high-mindedly, ought one not to prefer an author like Eliot, who really did give her whole enormous mind to religious and social and colonial questions, over a vain actor-manager type who used pathetic victims as tear-jerking raw material, and who actually detested the real subjects of High Victorian power and hypocrisy when they were luckless enough to dwell overseas?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Side of Dickens] Reference
That sounds awfully high-mindedly evenhanded - except that in Obama's telling, America's arrogance comes first. From Wordnik.com. Reference
President-elect watched with some amusement while the bankers who had so high-mindedly objected to federal assistance for the unemployed now demanded such assistance for themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
His life teaches our people that they must act with wisdom, because otherwise adherence to right will be mere sound and fury without substance; and that they must also act high-mindedly, or else what seems to be wisdom will in the end turn out to be the most destructive kind of folly. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference
What Young high-mindedly terms his "devotion" - "groveling" might be more like it - to Edwards was, of course, based on the comforting supposition that the senator "was going to be president of the United States one day, and I thought that this would be good for the country and for our family.". From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page]
In the magazine's mind, "the country" (as opposed to 106,000 voters in the 5th Congressional District of Illinois) high-mindedly sent Emanuel (himself a victim of classic Washington caricature, one which misses a distinctly soft and generous side) to take over for Blago in Congress and Fitzgerald to later "hunt him down.". From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
For that matter I support the New Urbanists, except when they get high-mindedly pissy about people’s free choices. From Wordnik.com. [Sensible Man] Reference
"Yes, for all her money, she is merely Mary Ann. And am I to sell myself for her money -- I who have stood out so nobly, so high-mindedly, through all these years of privation and struggle!. From Wordnik.com. [Merely Mary Ann] Reference
"Yes, for all her money, she is merely Mary Ann. And am I to sell myself for her money -- I who have stood out so nobly, so high-mindedly, through all these years of privation and struggle?. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes] Reference
Health Secretary Andy Burnham was in cross-party talks The Health Secretary Andy Burnham has high-mindedly called on his Tory Shadow Andrew Lansley to desist from Yugoslavia) will have to address the fundamental question of what should be - or, what can be. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Obama's Anti-Business Prejudice] Reference
"anonymity" and "privacy" with one another), and talked high-mindedly about its importance to democracy, are using it for such high-minded contributions as this: "Doo Doo Doogan / Is making me gag / Doo Doo Doogan / Has a new poo flag!". From Wordnik.com. [News on Anchorage Press] Reference
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