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High-minded souls who tut-tut are like people who say: West Ham relegated from the Premiership, eh?
Why we should cherish prime minister's questions | Michael White 2011
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High-minded souls who tut-tut are like people who say: West Ham relegated from the Premiership, eh?
Why we should cherish prime minister's questions | Michael White 2011
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High-minded liberals may find that distasteful, but if they want to win, they may have no choice.
How President Obama can win – without approval | Ben Adler 2011
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High-minded theatergoers don't let a little nudity distract them from the narrative developments onstage; but the rest of us have brains that can easily wander and wonder.
When Actors Bare More Than Their Souls Lizzie Simon 2011
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High-minded and self-important on the surface, smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard to the groin area.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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High-minded Dem overestimation of Americans 'intelligence, and refusal to really bloody their opponent, leads to "moral victory" (i.e. narrow loss and the country keeps going to hell.)
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High-minded as it is commonly made to sound, it is not civilized to appease evil, to treat it with “dignity and respect,” to rationalize its root causes, to equivocate about whether evil really is evil, and, when all else fails, to ignore it — to purge the very mention of its name — in the vain hope that it will just go away.
Archive 2009-04-01 Dr. Sanity 2009
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High-minded Edward R. Murrow-esque journalism is largely dead, and the "he said/she said" era is here.
Leonce Gaiter: McCain Schools Obama On the Modern Press 2008
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High-minded and self-important on the surface, smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard to the groin area.
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High-minded, National Public Radio listeners, those sort of people.
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