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

And how does that high-minded wish-casting contrast with Richard Mack's actual history?

From Salon • Sep. 28, 2024

I wonder if he’d be so high-minded then!

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende