Back then, French presidents were lofty men of providence who, as former French leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing once grandly observed, were "in the line of sovereigns" and expected to be treated like royalty.
Obama actually has been less daring than he could have been, less systematic than he should have been, and more focused on short-term politics than his lofty, man-of-big-ideas image would suggest.
I wanted to make this lofty, courteous man all mine.
After two years of beautiful trailers, ambiguous claims and lofty expectations, No Man's Sky has touched down and opened its blast doors.
The series host, Mark Anthony Thompson, talks loftily about "the cross-pollination of music and cinema" -- at least as lofty as a man can be slouching on a couch and wearing sunglasses (indoors) and orange flip-flops.
Its deeply Scottish Presbyterian fulminations against materialistic desires for "trinkets of frivolous utility", and lofty observation that man has some principles "which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it", can be made to sound almost socialist.
His noble endeavors put him in the lofty company of men like Ray Rice and Chris Brown.
So many horses, found in a separate section of the pit, affirmed the man's lofty social status.
If Goriss's prediction is accurate and Exum fulfils his lofty potential, the 'mystery man' moniker will rapidly disappear.
Goose-stepping soldiers acting like automatons, the pedant behaving like a mechanical robot, the Sergeant Major attacked by diarrhea, or Hamlet getting the hiccups all show man's lofty aspirations deflated by his all-too-solid flesh.
Likewise, when a young state senator called Barack Obama voted for a similar measure in Illinois in 1998, it seemed like a shrewd move for a man with lofty ambitions.
