high-flown
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Abe’s are high-flown, pretentious — which is but one way this plot thread recalls the infamous electronic flirtation between the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer and the actress Natalie Portman.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
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
We know that government - what Edwards does - is more detail than high-flown phrases.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 15, 2020
When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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