Sentence examples for lofty field from inspiring English sources

That inversion, though, does not invalidate the passionate enterprise of seeing war not as a lofty field of honor, or a lively field of "action" entertainment, but as it is.

On this lofty field, a pitched battle between tradition and modernity rages, with blue-blooded stalwarts accustomed to gorging on roast swan in the campus dining hall confronting an onslaught of female students, prophylactics run amok (inflated, they waft en masse onto the college quad) and other terrors.

Elbakyan did find a community of like-minded researchers in transhumanism, a lofty field that encompasses not just neuroscience and computer technology but also philosophy and even speculative fiction about the future of humanity.

What Bowden is being blamed for is not measuring up to the lofty on-field standards he set for the program.

Police work is represented at its most realistic – often inspiring, mostly soul-destroying – while lofty ideals in any field are soon grounded in the petty grudges and vitriol that shroud them.

Political science, which had been a field for lofty speculations or restrained exercises in the analysis and exposition of texts, became important for those who practiced politics and those who wanted to satisfy, under the aegis of Aristotle's doctrine, the potentialities of human beings for happiness.

Most drape their work in lofty erudition drawn from fields like philosophy, experimental science fiction and mysticism.

Mr. Parrott slowly rose to a lofty position in a crowded field in London.

Polls suggest that Mr. Gingrich has fallen from his once-lofty place atop the Republican field into the second tier of candidates who are struggling for a fourth-place finish so they can make a strong case to stay in the race.

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By Richard Wilbur The New Yorker, November 22 , 1999P. 116 That lofty stand of trees beyond the field, View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Malcolm Gladwell By Zoë Heller.