She ditches their contractor and keeps the architect at bay - foolhardy moves for most, as McCloud notes in his usual lofty manner, but not for her.
I was alternately flying — that must have been because of the alcohol, at least I was able to take the initiative and talk to everyone with ease in that lofty manner that occasionally but not very often took hold of me — and completely on the fringes, when everyone around the table, even Yngve, appeared alien to me, indeed not only that, but also totally irrelevant.
And really, it's a story that deserves to be captured in a more lofty manner.
Neither do the other characters, who speak in a lofty idealistic manner, and whose lives, cut short by war or Communism, are mere illustrations of the brutality of Bulgarian history.
Meanwhile, the narrator (Godard himself) comments on the action in a lofty, literary manner, which is sometimes comically at odds with the humdrum events on screen.
The speaker must be a person of high achievement but, ideally, not so lofty in manner that no one can connect with him.
There's nothing about her manner – no lofty airs or scholarly posing – that suggests the formidable intellect at her disposal.
His manner is lofty and he raps the table in time to his words when he is trying to make a point; he can be dismissive.
Not so her scathing portrait of American vulgarity, peculiar religious manias, incredible coarseness and lofty pretensions, called Domestic Manners of the American.
All that the actors have to work with are their imagination, two lofty pegboards festooned with all manner of wigs and whatever else comes to hand, like the resident cat, which wandered across the stage during the performance.
Arnold classified English society into the Barbarians (with their lofty spirit, serenity, and distinguished manners and their inaccessibility to ideas), the Philistines (the stronghold of religious nonconformity, with plenty of energy and morality but insufficient "sweetness and light"), and the Populace (still raw and blind).
