Sentence examples for lofty nature from inspiring English sources

But it gives you a sense of the lofty nature of his goals".

When he was engaged in imposturous activities of a lofty nature, he understandably found it beyond endurance to go to lower Manhattan at regular intervals to report to a parole officer, as he was supposed to do, and when he failed to do that he was sent back to prison.

The intent was to draw the observer's eye upwards, celebrating what Sullivan termed the "lofty" nature of the skyscraper, but not wasting resources on intricate detailing unlikely to appeal to a busy businessman.

A glum young fellow named Edgar Bruno Putzuluu) holds desultory auditions for a lofty project whose nature and subject keep changing.

The name Windy Nook derives from "the lofty and exposed nature of the situation it occupies".

Between the putative "Oh my God, who knew?" moments come reams of dreary exposition and lofty blather about the nature of madness and the question of evil.

Something about St. Bride's steeple -- its fanciful nature, its lofty height, perhaps its irrepressible gaiety -- seems to me to imply a sense of hope.

Where once the icy extremities of the planet represented all that was lofty and implacable about nature, now they show us only too clearly the fragility of our environment and the power we have to change it.

That's the nature of fiction: despite all our lofty claims of universality, no piece of art is for everyone — which is why we have so much art, so that everyone has a chance of finding something that moves them.

Dawson said that "a town is a solemn organism through which shall flow, and in which shall be shaped, all the highest, loftiest and truest ends of man's moral nature".

The 19th-century French critic and historian Hippolyte Taine said of him that "the whole of human nature is in his grasp, save the loftiest heights.