high-mindedness

I had never been in the presence of such high-mindedness before.

Queens-Born Poet Returns Julie Steinberg 2011

David Brooks, ever flailing to dress up his own loyalties to a sick political movement in the language of "character" and intellectual high-mindedness, has written a truly extraordinary column today -- The Tree of Failure -- to explain the lack of political civility in America today.

Jonathan Weiler: David Brooks' Extraordinary Blindspot Jonathan Weiler 2011

But I think Daschle has long proved himself an inept hack good at nothing but projecting an image of high-mindedness.

Matthew Yglesias » The Daschle Problem 2009

In addition to the high-mindedness, he also knows searching for ET can be popular, can engage the public if done with the right pizzazz.

First Contact Marc Kaufman 2011

Indeed, Estrada appears to be almost obsessed with playing out his high-mindedness at the cost of a more broadly and responsibly considered review (of Kagan).

The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation 2010

It was a reaction to "the triumph of nothingness", the modernist architecture which had, by the 1960s, become the official style of the establishment in both capitalist and socialist countries, a dogmatic, high church willing to compromise with business, which reached a new low when Walter Gropius, the high priest of modernist high-mindedness, designed the Playboy Club in London.

PoMo power: the return of postmodernism 2011

All that red, white and blue packaging, all that faux-Copland theme music, all that moderator gravitas - they're just cues to prompt our civic high-mindedness, enabling us to pretend we're doing something more consequential than enjoying an infotainment freakshow.

Marty Kaplan: Keeping Up With the Kandidates Marty Kaplan 2011

In a telling example of incompetence masquerading as high-mindedness, Donilon led the charge in challenging whether it was possible to work with Hamid Karzai.

Stephen Yates and Christian Whiton: Obama's Mini-Me Stephen Yates 2010

All that red, white and blue packaging, all that faux-Copland theme music, all that moderator gravitas - they're just cues to prompt our civic high-mindedness, enabling us to pretend we're doing something more consequential than enjoying an infotainment freakshow.

Marty Kaplan: Keeping Up With the Kandidates Marty Kaplan 2011

Over the last 235 years we have seen American utopianism and spiritual high-mindedness replaced by a culture of overeating, overspending, and over-wanting.

Arthur Rosenfeld: Deeper Lessons of the Debt Crisis Arthur Rosenfeld 2011