Sentence examples for lofty notions from inspiring English sources

His lofty notions could be seen as a form of rebellion.

Today five of them are.That emphasis on giving readers what they want to read, as opposed to what lofty notions of civic responsibility suggest they ought to read, is part of a global trend.

"Zero Motivation" — which won the top award at the Tribeca Film Festival and became a hit in Israel when it was released there this summer — neither advances nor perpetuates lofty notions of the I.D.F.

Yet its success has come from organising well at the grassroots and concentrating on livelihood issues, areas where the Democrats have been notoriously weak.Moreover, for all their lofty notions, the Democrats have put off voters with public bickering between the party's social-democratic grandees and its more populist, pro-labour activists.

The library's director, Douglas Bradburn, said there was a trend among historians now who might be more likely to look at the American Revolution through a more cynical lens, resurrecting arguments from a century ago that Washington and the other founding fathers were motivated more by their own economic interests than by any lofty notions of liberty and self-governance.

They ranged from the seemingly mundane — "Why do we have to wear school uniforms?" — to far more lofty notions: "What is the American Dream?" and "How do we determine what is right and what is wrong?" The scenes could have been from any privileged school.

"Academics have this lofty notion that lawyers should do good for society.

Indeed if my sense of intrinsic worth was this shakey, I had no business trying to sell others on that lofty notion.

Where Anderson's emotional realm is essentially aristocratic (great emotions emerge from an exquisitely cultivated style), Malick's is democratic (his lofty notion of style arises from common and widely shared feelings).

Almost 30 years later, a ban on religious intolerance remains a lofty notion that has not yet been implemented into an international law or convention, which would bind ratifying countries.

It was, however, Dostoevsky who saw most acutely how individuals, trained to believe in a lofty notion of personal freedom and sovereignty, and then confronted with a reality that cruelly cancelled it, could break out of paralysing ambivalence into gratuitous murder and paranoid insurgency.