Sentence examples for lofty phrases from inspiring English sources
There are stories of young athletes who are pumped full of lofty phrases and expectations.
He started almost humbly and worked his way up to long, lofty phrases.
On the stump, Mr. Hastert sticks to a meat-and-potatoes speech, stripped clean of lofty phrases.
Watch it again and you'll be reminded that Mr. Zuckerberg didn't start out by describing his creation with lofty phrases characterizing it as "a social mission to make the world more open and connected," which is the way he often refers to it now.
The story has become a staple of Clinton's stump speech, a prime example of how, in a campaign year in which lofty phrases have taken center stage, she has rejected sweeping oratory -- "just words," as her campaign likes to accuse Democratic rival Barack Obama of offering -- in favor of a dramatic speaking style all her own.
Never again would I be able to read a lofty phrase about a social-media company's shift in policy — "open and connected," or "encouraging meaningful interactions" — without imagining a group of people sitting around a conference room, eating free snacks and making fallible decisions.
(The KickSat mothership produced basic signals, which were recorded around the globe).The preprogrammed messages ranged from the prosaic "Hello!" to the lofty Latin phrase, "Aut Vincere Aut Mori".
These ravishing images are matched by the mellifluous, modulated voices that pour out grief in lofty and delicate phrases — and conceal, with the same rhetorical flourishes, deeply calculated machinations of an imperial cruelty.
Lately, the lofty and evocative phrase "Harlem Renaissance" has been bandied about as if it were newly relevant.
"The country above us" -- her lofty American's phrase for Canada -- "always struck me as storage space, like an attic".
The remarkable French musician Lise de la Salle excels in such works as "Aprÿs une Lecture du Dante," "Lacrymosa" (after Mozart's Requiem), and the Ballade No. 2, revealing a singular combination of digital dexterity, impetuous phrasing, and lofty, delicate expressivity.
