LOS ANGELES — Their requests could have been lofty, expensive and totally unrealistic, but in the end what the people of central Los Angeles really wanted was just a place to sit down.
Now, with Prayuth as the public face, the Eastern Tigers have been elevated to such lofty heights that they now not only lead the military but the government as well.
Zynga has been receiving lofty valuations in part because it is basically seen as a proxy investment for Facebook.
Perhaps the most admirable segment of the two-part thriller that was the semifinal affair between the Blues and their Catalonian opponents, was Di Matteo's ability to turn Chelsea from overpaid has been's and lofty egos in to a hard working, defensive unit of modest underdogs.
Boku has always wanted to become the PayPal of mobile payments, but has been hindered by lofty carrier rates.
Having kept much of his squad together, Biello has been set the loftiest ambitions of any Montreal head coach before him.
Of Maxwell Anderson, a popular left-wing playwright of the time, she did not hesitate to write, "Once again he has been inspired by a lofty theme and once again the mediocrity of his talent has reduced it to inconsequentiality".
English historian John Andrew Doyle wrote of Vane that he had acquired "a more dazzling reputation than has been granted to the lofty public spirit and statesmanlike foresight of Winthrop".
It's an apt metaphor for the trial itself, in which the everyday machinery of the municipal criminal justice system has been shoved aside for loftier arguments about justice and democracy.
Sergey sees it as the tale of a man whose expectations have been too lofty, who has been waiting for a miracle and ended up wasting his life.
