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high-sounding

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ADJECTIVE
  1. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
    high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school
    a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution

How To Use high-sounding In A Sentence

  • Too often, they were simply bantered around as high-sounding slogans.
  • Some definitions were more high-sounding than accurate.
  • Government broadcasting policy has always been surrounded by high-sounding rhetoric, but the need to ensure financial viability while filling the programming needs of a voracious medium has always been the basic driver of TV practice.
  • With the curtain about to go up on the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún, there will be plenty of high-sounding statements calling for a successful outcome.
  • He has taken a noble and high-sounding Fijian name and dragged it in the dirt to suit his nefarious purposes. THE FEATHERS OF THE SUN
  • Mankind to-day has had more than enough of high-sounding principles and beautiful declarations.
  • By this time the beliefs were given even more high-sounding names such as ideals, freedom, conscience, God, country, sacred path.
  • As the Garzon situation demonstrates (and I think EPosner has it right), Garzon was simply seeing what he could get away with vis-a-vis “universal jurisdiction” and so long as his targets matched the wish lists of various members of the academic international law community, they did everything they could to enable his politics with high-sounding pronouncements as to the QED “legality” of his course of action. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare: The Upbeat News About the Obama Administration
  • His historical theatre must first of all create an epic dimension, using every resource, not only drums, trumpets, banners, heraldry, and high-sounding words, but the imagination of the audience.
  • Do not want to cause so-called family, in fact, irresponsible guys who high-sounding excuse!
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