high-mindedness
Example Sentences
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It is when Mary resigns herself to learning and high-mindedness that her life-scheme goes happily awry.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
The experience, and her later workshop jobs, instilled in her a proletarian ethos very different from the aesthetic high-mindedness taught in England’s art schools.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2022
Their foe is the clock and the rise and the flavors and Paul Hollywood’s bad opinions, not their fellow contestants or the edit, a high-mindedness that makes the series uniquely wholesome, pleasant, and comforting.
From Slate • May 18, 2020
Williamson took the other Democrats onstage to task for their high-mindedness in discussing issues, saying, “I want a politics that goes much deeper . . . that speaks to the heart.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2019
He paused, with an expression that she would come to know well, a virtuous narrowing of his eyes that announced the high-mindedness of their owner.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
