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The highfalutin prestige animation studio is signaling to the “Minecraft” generation that they can do fun new movies too.

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And it could have a huge impact on the game because, at the risk of getting highfalutin, it would require a new way of thinking about time.

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You heard highfalutin' rhetoric about how they were going to end abortion in the U.S. forever.

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The highfalutin parallel is to “Candide,” the classic 18th century novel about a naif who endures the horrors of civilization: chaos, selfishness, disease and destruction.

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A second inscription at the Missouri School of Journalism, my alma mater, is also on the mark, though it’s even more mockable and highfalutin: "The Schoolmaster to the People."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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