"lofty subject" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a serious or important topic or subject matter. Example: The speaker addressed the audience on many lofty subjects, including social justice and environmental protection.
Impressionism, with its fast, loose brushwork and aim of capturing the moment, was of course a reaction to the tight rendering, lofty subject matter and polished look of the Salon-style paintings approved by French officialdom.
Perhaps it's because the producers were not up to the lofty subject matter -- and in some cases maybe it's just the bad dubbing -- but the earlier sword-and-sandal epics often had a unique way of yielding, well, memorable utterances.
Yes, it means you have to be a good communicator, but it doesn't mean you have to get on a podium and speak at a conference and talk about some lofty subject.
Lofty subjects (death, love, loss of love) and lyrical cliches are wielded in the full confidence that they constitute the sentimental common ground of our shared emotional existence.
That would be asking too much of the play's logorrheic characters, who are never happier than when they are arguing about lofty subjects.
One infers from this grudging compliment that Rome's greatest orator had, despite himself, been impressed with a young woman, some forty years his junior, who could hold her own with him on lofty subjects.
That she does this in a way that is direct, unpretentious, surprising, and funny (no mean feat in a discussion of such lofty subjects) is testament to her skills as a personal essayist.
The manager had told reporters that he wouldn't answer questions about the after-effects of the 7-1 mauling by Barcelona or on the prospects of Michael Ballack but really should have enjoyed talking about these lofty subjects while they still present themselves.
Everyday science performed by typical scientists, I had discovered, delves mostly into obscurity and minutiae, not into the lofty subjects I had imagined.
She spoke not far from the site where Obama last week delivered a rousing address on race — and her campaign was pleased with the juxtaposition in the hope that blue-collar voters will be swayed more by pocketbook matters than the loftier subject of social harmony.
Even Gloria Steinem, the 79-year-old feminist, who usually reserves her comments for loftier subjects, reacted to all the fuss saying, "Our bodies are never public property under any circumstances".
