Sentence examples for high idea from inspiring English sources

As Paul Scott put it in "The Raj Quartet," the epic of imperial exhaustion and disillusion, India in 1947 was where the empire's high idea of itself collapsed and "the British came to the end of themselves as they were".

I believe that Dennis was one of those who had such a high idea of the game and such a respect for the game that he wanted that to be above everything.

He is huge, with such a high idea of life.

This charmingly miscellaneous volume of essays combines high ideas with an insouciance of tone.

The castle gardener tells Edith that the Count hasn't married because, with his high ideas of himself, he can't live and he can't die.

Perhaps there is a lesson for Mr. Obama here: those who invoke high ideas and scorn compromise often bring themselves into disrepute.

But his brief, benighted premiership, like this week's budget, has been crowded with low politics and bereft of high ideas.

That is part of how the sadism strategy has wrongfooted the Tories: they were expecting more high ideas and less low politics.

The designer, Danny Ledonne, had high ideas about it: he chose low-fi effects to avoid gratuitous gore and included actual dialogue from the teenagers to give insight into their troubled minds.

Combining high ideas with an insouciance of tone, this charmingly miscellaneous volume considers, among other things, the forgotten heroes of pacifism, airplane wings, telephones, paper mills, John Updike, the O.E.D. and the manufacture of the Venetian gondola.

UMBERTO ECO made his name as a novelist in the early 1980s with "The Name of the Rose", a global blockbuster which managed to combine high ideas, literary panache and powerful page-turnability.