highfaluting

I like to think I'm engaged in a bit of civil disobedience, but that's an awfully highfaluting title for a simple act of citizen outrage.

Why I Don't Pay Washington DC Parking Tickets 2010

I like to think I'm engaged in a bit of civil disobedience, but that's an awfully highfaluting title for a simple act of citizen outrage.

Eric C. Anderson: Why I Don't Pay Washington DC Parking Tickets 2010

HAMMER: The producers of Pam ` s new show are saying it ` s going to be highfaluting.

CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2008 2008

One voice is a "we" located in the Orthodox community who begins each chapter with highfaluting rumination on some Jewish topic, and goes on to narrate events from the perspectives of Dovid, the cousin, who is afflicted with colorful (literally) migraines, and Esti, the former lover, who appears to be autistic but turns out to be (I think) enlightened.

Archive 2007-03-01 Becca 2007

One voice is a "we" located in the Orthodox community who begins each chapter with highfaluting rumination on some Jewish topic, and goes on to narrate events from the perspectives of Dovid, the cousin, who is afflicted with colorful (literally) migraines, and Esti, the former lover, who appears to be autistic but turns out to be (I think) enlightened.

Disobedience Becca 2007

I'm fairly confident that the vast majority of my fellow Americans know the word, if at all, only as a part of some weird British institutions; "privy to" is a highfaluting phrase over here and would be used only as a show of erudition, and even those who know the phrase would I suspect be unable to tell you what exactly "privy" means.

languagehat.com: TRANSLATION PROBLEMS. 2004

We in the communities, in the labour movement, in the schools, are saying it is not enough to write highfaluting theories about us, get doctorates in the process, and become so-called experts on this or that organisation or field, to develop your scathing critiques from the safe walls and desks of your professions, and thereby hope to gain acceptance or recognition in our daily struggles.

Children of Resistence 1988

DURING THESE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS, particularly since the advent of the present Government - I am not trying to compare evils, as the previous one was not basically better, but of course there can be bad and worse and so on - there has been more and more legislation of this character, sometimes having these rather highfaluting titles such as University Acts,

STATEMENT IN THE SPECIAL POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 1961

Introduction upon the _highfaluting_ style so common among us.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

But, while men admire and reverence a sweet and simple feminine soul -- and love her in plays and between the covers of a book and when she is talking highfaluting abstractions of morality -- and wax wroth with any other man who ignores or neglects her -- they do not in their own persons become infatuated with her.

Grain of Dust. 1911