Sentence examples for lofty address from inspiring English sources
Day Two Sunday morning: Go to church A 15th-century Gothic pile, the Graz Dom (22), (00 43 316 821683; domgraz.at) glares at the city from its lofty address at Burggasse 3. The cathedral is open for services at 8.30am on Sundays (6.30am Monday to Saturday), its thick double doors giving onto an interior of surprising Baroque prettiness.
In a lofty address that at times resembled a campaign speech, the chief executive of Wal-Mart Stores, H. Lee Scott Jr., said that "we live in a time when people are losing confidence in the ability of government to solve problems".
In June 2004, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg made a lofty promise to address one of the city's most intractable problems: he would reduce the homeless population of 38,000 by two-thirds in five years.
The speakers then were overwhelmingly white and male, addressing lofty matters in mostly impersonal terms.
But how do we start working towards the more lofty goal of addressing the social cause, discrimination itself?
Proclaiming "Newark is a city on a roll," Mayor Sharpe James, in a lofty State of City address tonight, pledged to increase the city's police force by 200 officers, to slash city property taxes by 5percentt and to carry out a host of other election-year initiatives including discounted water rates for elderly homeowners.
Skios Michael Frayn Faber, pbk £7.99 On an idyllic Greek island, an eminent intellectual arrives to deliver the keynote address at a lofty cultural institute.
"Mine's more pure?" she joked, before addressing her lofty new status.
But Kennedy's address, with its lofty vision of government as the central actor, is not the best model for the current crisis.
His aides say this is no moment for the lofty idealism of the inaugural address, 35 long days and roughly a thousand Dow Jones points ago.
Obama's inaugural address was less lofty and more pragmatic than his effort four years ago – another symptom of four years in office and the realities of divided government in Washington.
