Sentence examples for * high sounding from inspiring English sources

He could dip into his low range and project phrases with chesty emphasis, and soar high, sounding mellifluous and lyrical with almost tenorish colorings.

He was sceptical of many pastors and church men, dismissing their "high sounding barren words".

In a letter to his daughter, he wrote: "All this is the sequence of Gen. Pope's high sounding manifestoes.

He defends the Beowulf poet's use of high sounding language that was anachronistic even in [the poet's] time.

You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say, I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high sounding exordium.

With a little tweaking, they could easily serve as a defense of The Lord of the Rings against charges that its high sounding language was at variance with the 'juvenile' plot".

Learn the notes, which are G D A and E. E is the highest sounding pitch.

Pompous, trite, high-sounding, cautiously guarded".

This is high-sounding, but it is plain truth.

Voters "prefer in the candidate courage and honesty to high-sounding declamation in the platform".

But these polite, high-sounding terms do not go far enough.