Sentence examples for lofty air from inspiring English sources

Because their arguments belong not to the lofty air of the philosophy classroom but to the warm hum of our kitchens, their work is vital, urgent and disturbing.

His lofty air and fondness for intellectualising made him popular among his coterie of political comrades, but his style did not go down well with the wider population.

If he had something to prove, it was not in the lofty air that he occupies above the rim on a regular basis or in the grind of bodies crashing together under the basket on his slightly built body.

Late on a sultry Sunday night in August, the scene was more subdued, as mostly adult diners sought refuge from the heat in the lofty air-conditioned dining rooms.

There's nothing about her manner – no lofty airs or scholarly posing – that suggests the formidable intellect at her disposal.

He railed against the "lofty airs and superior quacking of middlemen of culture" and even hired a plane to fly over Manhattan and drop copies of a semicoherent manifesto denouncing what he saw as hypocrites and philistines in the art world.

But the Sanderses were captivated by the lofty, open-air interior and the simple beauty of the structure itself, built in 1897.

Until 23 June he would do well to avoid sectarian party-political playground behaviour and acquire a loftier demeanour, an air of authority on the nation's future.