Sentence examples similar to lofty flight from inspiring English sources

In the final scene, the emperor's inauguration — after his daughter has taken her own life (in what may be the longest farewell aria in opera, which is saying something), and after his general has been poisoned by Gao Jianli, who then mutilates himself by biting off his own tongue to spite the emperor — Mr. Domingo breaks one final time into lofty flights of ponderously arching lyricism.

Upon entering it, he lingered for a moment, gazing admiringly at its lofty ceiling, embellished with a flight of seraphs and cherubs, and at the four murals adorning its buff walls, each depicting a nymph symbolic of one of the seasons.

Two years ago, like Cardiff now, they came down from the Premier League with lofty ambitions of an immediate return to the top flight and were almost relegated to League One.

Flights of hubris are also a Russian tradition, so no one is knocking Perm's lofty ambitions.

Two flights up in his "green room", he stands at an internal window looking out over the lofty, circular space he considers his domain.

If lofty ticket prices weren't enough to break the piggy bank, expect to pay a pretty penny for flights into Houston.

Lofty rhetoric.

No lofty expectations.