high-minded

Example Sentences

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I want to be very high-minded about this.

From Slate • Nov. 4, 2025

While the work of their Attic cousins is celebrated for being high-minded and idealistic—all those ripped bodies, gods and goddesses—theirs, with its focus on everyday individuals and events, can be seen as prosaic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

It threatens to drown out their own more high-minded projects.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2025

For generations of attorneys, he has personified courage against long odds and the high-minded practice of law in service of social good.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2024

We need a more high-minded orientation and a deeper insight, which I miss in many researchers.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson