highfalutin

On “Critics Corner,” Shalit favored humor over the highfalutin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

Gilgamesh’s lament is not the stylized keening of epic tradition—not Achilles’ highfalutin howls after Hector strikes down Patroclus—but something rawer, humbler, more recognizably human.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

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.

From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2025

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."

From Salon ● Jan. 5, 2025

And are violations of the rule obvious products of mishearing, careless reading, or a chintzy attempt to sound highfalutin?

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

I don’t know why we’re taught to think of it in this highfalutin’ way.

From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2021

And Vetements showed alongside haute couture — the most highfalutin’ form of fashion there is.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2016

The 68-year-old expressed approval of the Fangshan facilities, but said he wasn’t sure if the highfalutin' amenities would stand the test of time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2015

I’ve given up on the idea of replicating George Bernard Shaw’s heliotropic garden shed, or Yeats’s highfalutin’ Thoor Ballylee, or even Hemingway’s homely stand-up desk.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2015

He got an interduction to one of them high-toned, highfalutin', 'don't-touch-me' rich widders from Philadelfy,—that's what he gets for 'em!

From A First Family of Tasajara by Harte, Bret