high-flown
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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
It’s an irony that Orwell, ever alert to the stubborn discrepancy between reality and high-flown fantasies, might have appreciated.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2021
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
This, only in more high-flown language, is what she’s written in the catalogue.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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