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• His pungent rejoinders made short work of the Government's high-flown theories.
• His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written.
• From hard-edge science fiction to high-flown fantasy, comic books to film noir, high culture to sub-culture… we sink our teeth into it all!
• Whatever high-flown rhetoric comes from the president next week, the reality is clear-cut.
• It was not the last time the high-flown menu prose promised one thing while the actual dish delivered another.
• The day after President Obama's big yearly speech to Congress and the American people, most pundits and talking-head types in the media are vying to outdo each other on stating "what it all means" or similar high-flown overanalysis. Chris Weigant: Obama's New Ideas
• The day after President Obama's big yearly speech to Congress and the American people, most pundits and talking-head types in the media are vying to outdo each other on stating "what it all means" or similar high-flown overanalysis. Chris Weigant: Obama's New Ideas
• The only Shakespeare play written entirely in verse, it contrasts the high-flown ideals of Richard with the low cunning of Henry Bolingbroke, the man who overthrows him and later has him murdered.
• In contrast to many postmodernists, who engage in easy forms of parody when addressing the high-flown art of the past, Schütte has actually had the courage to work from inside the tradition - and risk the comparisons.
• Viewed in this light, his high-flown rhetoric about the timeless values of freedom and democracy can seem an abstraction fit only for university debating halls.