highflown

Desdra cocked one eyebrow, and I quickly corrected any misapprehension she had of highflown ambitions.

Artichoke Christian Bell 2010

Nothing more than highflown generalities and certainly not specifically Christian generalities?

The example of Good King Wenceslas 2009

Politics hates the naked unbridled ego that laughter sets free; it hates it with the intensity with which laughter heaps its furies on the naked unbridled ego that hides behind the highflown sentiments of politics.

Archive 2006-09-01 Ann Althouse 2006

On the occasion of the ball, he came to her with a highflown compliment, and a request to be once more allowed to waltz with her — a request to which he expected a favourable answer, thinking, no doubt, that his wit, his powers of conversation, and the amour qui flambait dans son regard, had had their effect upon the charming Meess.

The Newcomes 2006

To these highflown expressions Elizabeth listened with all the insensibility of distrust; and though the suddenness of their removal surprised her, she saw nothing in it really to lament; it was not to be supposed that their absence from Netherfield would prevent

Pride and Prejudice 2004

Men looking for company -- and often that was all they wanted, a sympathetic conversation that displayed their sensibilities and taste, that yielded acknowledgment of their refinements, that allowed them to relax from the constant tension of competition prevailing among them -- would spy the edge of a silk sleeve or hem that might slip under a blind and they would stop to investigate, with varying degrees of subtlety and usually speaking highflown language.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

Men looking for company -- and often that was all they wanted, a sympathetic conversation that displayed their sensibilities and taste, that yielded acknowledgment of their refinements, that allowed them to relax from the constant tension of competition prevailing among them -- would spy the edge of a silk sleeve or hem that might slip under a blind and they would stop to investigate, with varying degrees of subtlety and usually speaking highflown language.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

In your place, I should avoid taking such highflown words on my tongue.

Maurice Guest 2003

His talk was rather highflown and rambling, but very sincere; there was a sort of intense exaltation in it, as though he really were delighted at my coming.

A Raw Youth 2003

This seems to have been too much for some unknown bard and, in an effort to redeem the description of this defeat of the clans in 1690, he added on a somewhat highflown description of Montrose's victory at Auldearn over the Covenanter army in 1645.

The Haughs o' Cromdale 1997