Sentence examples for lofty thing from inspiring English sources

The restaurant, meanwhile, bills itself the "essence of Colorado", which seems like quite a lofty thing to say, given how impressive – and literally lofty – Colorado is.

"To say it is going to break the all-time record is a very lofty thing to say," Quadrani said.

We spoke with Michael Norman recently about his book, but we also talked a lot about a lofty thing called narrative journalism and Michael's own experience as a soldier during the Vietnam War.

My mind wasn't up to lofty things Wednesday night.

Surely being a vice-chancellor means you have more lofty things to worry about?

Crofts wants to talk of lofty things but Killigrew stares bleakly out at us, head on hand.

Dustin Johnson, of whom similarly lofty things were expected, was six over par by the time he took to the 12th tee.

Yeats celebrated that quality in his poem "Beautiful Lofty Things": Augusta Gregory seated at her great ormolu... table, Her eightieth winter approaching: "Yesterday he threatened my life.

THERE are many lofty things to think about in the Newark Museum's "Insecta Fantasia" exhibition, including the intersection of art and science, patterns in nature and the occasionally blurry line between the beautiful and the ugly.

On the basis of this kind of stylistic distinction, the Aeneid, the epic poem of Virgil, Horace's contemporary, is called a tragedy by the fictional Virgil in Dante's Divine Comedy, on the grounds that the Aeneid treats only of lofty things.

On a late August afternoon, however, in a windowless rehearsal room where everyone was most assuredly unaware that it had begun to pour outside, Mr. Lawless was concerned with less lofty things, like how to move large groups of men from one side of the stage to another while they held onto a rope and how to remember what to call them without the aid of the name tags hanging around their necks.