Sentence examples for lofty confines from inspiring English sources

The family home was an apartment in the church tower and Bohuslav, a sickly child, seldom left its lofty confines for his first 12 years.

This debate, of course, will not be confined to lofty constitutional concerns.

Will the cartel be able to keep the oil price confined between this lofty floor and even higher ceiling—and if so, what is the outlook for the world's energy supply from OPEC's new penthouse Abdullah al-Badri, OPEC's secretary-general, explained that the group had decided to open the taps at its summit in Vienna out of compassion for cash-strapped drivers around the world.

In this paper, we have confined our investigations to populations within a smaller region of South Australia centred on the Adelaide Hills (Mount Lofty Ranges) but also including Wardang Island (which was the source of the virus) and the Murray River region to the east, that is, the region shown in Fig. 1.

Adorning a lofty tree is a small photograph of a man in the Bowery sleeping on his shoe; the photo is confined in a sardine can and encased in a wooden frame.

Lofty rhetoric.

No lofty expectations.

This is lofty.

That is very lofty ground.

Irony flattens her lofty sentiment.

"Boy, that's lofty.