He could dip into his low range and project phrases with chesty emphasis, and soar high, sounding mellifluous and lyrical with almost tenorish colorings.
HDIA has some high sounding purposes in its Articles of Incorporation.
He was sceptical of many pastors and church men, dismissing their "high sounding barren words".
In a letter to his daughter, he wrote: "All this is the sequence of Gen. Pope's high sounding manifestoes.
He defends the Beowulf poet's use of high sounding language that was anachronistic even in [the poet's] time.
You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say, I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high sounding exordium.
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".
With a click of the button on their iPhones people can now take over public squares, block traffic, attract television cameras, stare down the police, and shout out high sounding slogans ad nauseam.
--"The high sounding phrase, 'the American way', will be used by interest groups, intent on profit, to cover a multitude of sins against the American and Christian traditions" --Halford E. Luccock, Yale Divinity School, September 12 , 1938
It's built around three high sounding goals: Getting all students to graduate from high school, to have access to college and be prepared for it, and to have access and pathways to careers.
Avoid high sounding words.
