Sentence examples for high-flown from inspiring English sources

Pastor Lynch's rhetoric from the pulpit was more high-flown.

But its dramaturgy is weak and the writing high-flown.

The video-game vocabulary supports a high-flown register.

Ms. Samie speaks in precise, high-flown French.

Pearse had a flair for high-flown, violent rhetoric.

Finesse, vibrance, clarity -- those are high-flown abstractions.

Both these groups tend to be highly suspicious of Mr Obama's high-flown rhetoric.

His own poetry ranged from the high-flown lyric to the down-to-earth burlesque.

He had no time for modernism and was suspicious of anything that seemed too high-flown.

These plodding, incremental steps are not as exciting as high-flown dreams of perfect democracy.

When Wilson wrote about character and virtue, he didn't mean anything high flown or theocratic.