high-flown
Example Sentences
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Cinema purists have a tendency to speak of the theatrical experience in such high-flown spiritual terms.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2023
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
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
She couldn’t bear hearing high-flown talk she didn’t understand.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
