highfalutin
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On “Critics Corner,” Shalit favored humor over the highfalutin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
And it could have a huge impact on the game because, at the risk of getting highfalutin, it would require a new way of thinking about time.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025
A second inscription at the Missouri School of Journalism, my alma mater, is also on the mark, though it’s even more mockable and highfalutin: "The Schoolmaster to the People."
From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025
“With all due respect, I’ve told you on several occasions that I am not interested in your highfalutin boycott or whatever fancy pamphlet you’re pushing this time.”
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
“But to me, this is clothing nakedly private interests in highfalutin’ constitutional arguments.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
Los Angeles’ city fathers, so adept at ballyhoo, just hated it that the highfalutin’ town up the Arroyo Seco had thought up their big flowery promotional parade first.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2022
I don’t know why we’re taught to think of it in this highfalutin’ way.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2021
And Vetements showed alongside haute couture — the most highfalutin’ form of fashion there is.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2016
Well, then, behave yourself, an' be like you use to be, an' stop trollopin' aroun' wi' them highfalutin' gals downtown.
From Gabriel Tolliver A Story of Reconstruction by Joel Chandler Harris
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