The phrase "a bit lofty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is overly ambitious, idealistic, or elevated in tone, often in a critical sense.
Example: "While I appreciate your enthusiasm, I think your proposal is a bit lofty for our current budget constraints."
Alternatives: "somewhat unrealistic" or "a little idealistic."
Such sentiments seem a bit lofty coming from an 11-year-old narrator.
This scholar isn't a bit lofty as he explains later what it meant for Henry II to create English common law.
Today, "Act One" seems overlong, a bit lofty, and evasive about details, but its fledgling epiphanies continue to echo: A week after I had written "The Curtain Slowly Falls," I went into the bathroom, locked the door, and settling myself with a pillow behind me in the empty bathtub, I opened the closely written pages.
The film opens with black-and-white footage of Rogers sitting at a piano in 1967, talking about how he'll use mass media "to help children through some of the difficult modulations of life"—to go, for example, "from an F to an F sharp". The performance is both affecting and dissonant; Rogers's patient confidence, familiar from his show, feels a bit lofty.
That sounds a bit lofty, doesn't it?
The purpose of these games is a bit loftier than, "what's in it for us, cash-wise?" It's meant to be a celebration of excellence, of human endeavour, of finding a way to site national pride within international co-operation and mutual admiration, of building something greater together than any nation could build alone.
Slipstreaming the more hyper-paced and R-rated "Black Sails" on Starz, "Crossbones" may have a similar conceit — pirates are people too! — but its narrative ambitions are a bit loftier, driven more by character than plot.
The explanation for the initial success of "Dark Angel" is a bit less lofty.
Mukherjee admits that even at this price, a 'one device per child' goal may be a bit too lofty.
However, with just six employees at the time, that seemed to be a bit too lofty of a goal.
After more than 20 minutes, Mr. Nemazee finally said, "So I can count on you, Sara?" Ms. Schupf said later that she had not been planning on giving any money to Mr. Obama, whom she described as "a bit more about lofty ideas than I am".
