Sentence examples for high-flown diction from inspiring English sources

or Scarsfaces/where the scars are plural?" For many poets who employ a Handeyesque style, this kind of deflated language, delivered in the persona of a kooky everyman, serves to reject the high-flown diction stereotypically associated with the "poetic".

He wants to play around with a jumble of styles and voices regular people talking, journalese, pop culture, cracker-barrel philosophy, high-flown poetic diction.

There was little high-flown abstraction in his poetry, and little lofty diction.

"They don't want high-flown talk".

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

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

Sonic Youth is proud of its high-flown side.

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.