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

The City Opera's first general director was Hungarian-born Laszlo Halasz, who spent eight years getting it established, while sidestepping a series of attacks brought on by his toplofty manner.

From Time Magazine Archive

The only character in End of Summer untouched by the money is a toplofty old scientist who characterizes the rest of the cast as "the great mass of the uninformed and the inexact."

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