toplofty

Example Sentences

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Reading the toplofty Mr. Grantham, one can almost hear the voice of Shakespeare’s Puck—“What fools these mortals be.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

This settled quality makes Trilling’s letters a bit toplofty and dull.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2018

It often irritates politicians with toplofty editorials suggesting that the paper is not only on the side of the angels but right alongside them in heaven.

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite its toplofty accent on art, there is no artistic wooliness about Steuben's merchandising methods.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had sensible notions; he saw things as they really were, and with him there would never be any nonsense about toplofty ideas.

From The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages by Cabell, James Branch