Sentence examples for high sounding language from inspiring English sources

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

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".

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There is growing fury, just visible beneath Ghani's veneer of calm, at the contrast between the high-sounding language of capacity-building and the reality of capacity confiscation.

Avoid high sounding words.

Using high sounding words, perhaps in a bid to impress your reader, could be very counterproductive.

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

If you want to make a very mellow, smooth sounding language like Italian or Telugu, incorporate a lot of relaxed vowels like i, ɛ  ə, ɑ  and u.

"We have too many high-sounding words and not enough actions to correspond with them".

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

"There are plenty of examples for that in spite of the high-sounding principled language about monitoring arms sales".

Such ominous sounding language is not used lightly or casually, but is required by accounting rules.

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