Sentence examples for lofty reading from inspiring English sources

Exactly 100 years earlier, as chance would have it, The Times revealed the considerably more eclectic and lofty reading habits of one of the mayor's predecessors, William J. Gaynor.

Andrew Carnegie distributed branch libraries — raised like temples or courthouses a few steps above the street, with stony facades and lofty reading rooms — to serve the masses as silent palaces for public improvement.

Another strategy appears in the July contract where the $5 straddle appears to be in play with investors selling to reap the $1.60 premium thanks to a still lofty 72% reading for implied volatility.

There has already been a PBS documentary about Seabiscuit (another one, on A&E, will be shown on Sunday), but Mr. Ross has nonetheless chosen to punctuate his film with lofty voiceovers read by the popular historian David McCullough, whose sonorous disquisitions accompany black-and-white archival photographs of automobile assembly lines and dust bowl refugees.

"To the south the city takes on a less lofty character," it read, "where many of its historical buildings are dwarfed by the soaring Wall Street structures and the signature twin towers of the World Trade Center".

Then try and imagine visiting the Digital Signal website and reading its lofty mission statement ("we make the world safer by delivering the only precision long range three dimensional identity solution capable of recognizing people on the move") in the year 2002, when Minority Report was released.

He seemed to be a beat slow (by his incredibly lofty standards) in progression reads, which caused him to make some uncharacteristically poor throws when crowded by defenders.

"Tasty food is one of the most universal routes to pleasure," reads a lofty academic paper by the Oxford psychiatrist Morten Kringelbach on our understanding, so far, of the neuroscience of happiness.

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.

When she was better, she smoked less and read loftier literature: Musil, Mann, Joseph Roth.

The next year it built a rooftop platform for chess and reading, "a pleasant, lofty perch on a hot evening," according to The New York Times, with bunting, lanterns and a downwind bench for smokers.