"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".
Both used power in the service of higher ideas, which are engraved nearby on the walls.
This charmingly miscellaneous volume of essays combines high ideas with an insouciance of tone.
Some of us, then, crave solitude, or at least a place reflecting higher ideas: immensity, infinity, impermanence.
The castle gardener tells Edith that the Count hasn't married because, with his high ideas of himself, he can't live and he can't die.
Perhaps there is a lesson for Mr. Obama here: those who invoke high ideas and scorn compromise often bring themselves into disrepute.
But his brief, benighted premiership, like this week's budget, has been crowded with low politics and bereft of high ideas.
That is part of how the sadism strategy has wrongfooted the Tories: they were expecting more high ideas and less low politics.
The designer, Danny Ledonne, had high ideas about it: he chose low-fi effects to avoid gratuitous gore and included actual dialogue from the teenagers to give insight into their troubled minds.
