As high-minded as that sounds, Sundance executives say "The Green" is simply an outgrowth of the environmental ethos long espoused by Robert Redford, the channel's founder.
None of the programs, including New Hampshire's, are so high-minded that they ignore the practical.
To hear the main players in the post-election melodrama tell it, you would think all their concerns are high-minded, that their motivations come straight out of Montesquieu, without the slightest trace of Machiavelli.
As with Wiseman's previous film about the Crazy Horse nightclub in Paris, At Berkeley does look offputtingly like a promotional video for the host institution, but everything here is so unworldly and high-minded that the emphasis on ideas is refreshing.
Can we afford to be so high-minded that we allow more innocent people to die because of some antiquated code that was based on an entirely different kind of enemy?
Or maybe it will be some high minded worldly intellectual type that will say something like "Don't you read Vice Magazine?...African warlords and stuff" Nay, my brothers and sisters, nay.
As the American folk music revival gathered momentum in the 1950s and '60s, it was inevitable that a high-minded movement that prided itself on the purity of its acoustic instrumentation and its separation from the commercial pop mainstream would be overtaken and transformed by pop music's rapidly evolving technology.
Perhaps it was his high-minded background that gave him reason to bite the hand that fed him.
Because in juxtaposing two famous quotations from the depths of his nostalgia with one of Rubio's insults, Sam is essentially endorsing the idea that America's political discourse is historically high-minded and that debasement of any kind goes against our noble traditions.
Free movement of people, a high-minded ideal that was intended to make the EU more popular, has instead become the wedge that will split the UK from its continental partners.
Peter Edelman clings to a high-minded worldview that does not recognize the need to compromise in a system that, after all, requires one to win elections in order to govern.
