high-flown
Example Sentences
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In the high-flown rhetoric of venture capital, the company’s CEO imagines a world where everything becomes an NFT, with no limits to where OpenSea’s 2.5 percent commission can reach.
From The Verge • Feb. 2, 2022
But a sense of futility is equally inadequate, and Alameddine has no taste for the magical-realist variants or high-flown lyricism attempted by other novelists when writing about refugees.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2021
His co-founder, an architect named Miguel McKelvey, was tasked with translating Neumann’s high-flown dreams into tangible reality.
From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2020
You’d hardly want to be seen writing in the Café de Flore in Paris, would you, no matter how high-flown your topic.
From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2020
He had a flair for the dramatic and for high-flown if imprecise language.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
