Sentence examples for highfalutin language from inspiring English sources

But why describe him in highfalutin language?

"He's not reaching for purple prose or highfalutin language, no doubt because that would have untrue to both Jabo's nature and Whitman's own.

A possible reason it did, he said, is that he was telling laymen baffled by academic writing that the authors might be using "highfalutin language that didn't mean anything".

But when used in the start of a sentence like "Gedaddaheeuh wid yer fancy talk," the disbelief turns to vehement rejection, in the sense of "I vigorously reject your highfalutin language".

After rapping lines like "I be fucking broads like I be fucking bored," Rocky gets outclassed by his collaborators. 2 Chainz, a rapper who has little interest in highfalutin language, handles most of the speedy hook: "I love bad bitches, that's my fucking problem.

Professor Josipovici objected that a few disparaging comments about Amis, Rushdie et al had been taken to represent a thesis that was in fact "not interested in personalities" – a defence that would have been more convincing were it not that the chapter in question mounts an ad hominem attack on those "English pseudo-Modernists" and their "beady-eyed refusal to be taken in by highfalutin language".

But that naturalism is balanced with this highfalutin, poetic language – borderline Shakespeare or Synge.

"Gradually the text messages became more sexual in nature, but always encased in this very highfalutin intellectual language".

It could not be highfalutin but words that is related to the industry your are trying to penetrate with.

When past presidents mixed with the public, they were aloof, their handshakes were polite; their language, flowery and highfalutin.

He has long argued that plain, everyday language and simple ideas will beat highfalutin rhetoric any day of the week.