Sentence examples for higher idea from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the fact that the Lords has a higher idea of itself than it did when it was full of hereditary peers and has therefore become more assertive has only highlighted its absurdity all the more.

Few legislators will support a bill that's seen as anti-cop, but they're generally supportive of the higher idea".

Both used power in the service of higher ideas, which are engraved nearby on the walls.

Some of us, then, crave solitude, or at least a place reflecting higher ideas: immensity, infinity, impermanence.

The series title was devised to describe verse where Coleridge incorporates conversational language while examining higher ideas of nature and morality.

As Paul Scott put it in "The Raj Quartet," the epic of imperial exhaustion and disillusion, India in 1947 was where the empire's high idea of itself collapsed and "the British came to the end of themselves as they were".

I believe that Dennis was one of those who had such a high idea of the game and such a respect for the game that he wanted that to be above everything.

He is huge, with such a high idea of life.

"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest idea of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote.

Luckett records Burney's description of this number as "the highest idea of excellence in pathetic expression of any English song".

This charmingly miscellaneous volume of essays combines high ideas with an insouciance of tone.