high-flown
Example Sentences
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That’s true even during the exposition’s most hot-to-the-touch passage, a high-flown tetrachord of B, F sharp, F and E that emerges in the 16th minute.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
