Sentence examples for lofty to be from inspiring English sources

That is the stuff of blowhard manifestos — too high-minded to sell anything, and too lofty to be useful.

With her dancer's posture and flapper's haircut and a topaz brooch at her throat, she looked far too attractively lofty to be interested in her plate of spaghetti.

Jodie Kidd (odds at William Hill: 1/3) What they call a dead cert: Jodie Kidd will be confirmed as the new May – the six-foot-something former model being too lofty to be the new Hammond.

Britain's largest insurer of church buildings has started deploying the aircraft to perform aerial surveys, using a bird's-eye view to assess the extent of damage and deterioration to features that are too lofty to be safely reached by ladder or even abseiling surveyors.

Others are less lofty: "to be able to pay off my student loans," "living wages for the disabled" and "literacy for all".

Whether the figure is somewhat higher or somewhat lower, it seems a figure lofty enough to be alarmed about.

Those are lofty offices, to be sure, but at least one political observer thinks they're not out of the question.

A lofty goal to be sure, and one that's going to be extremely difficult.

Later theists thought the role of first cause of change too lofty not to be God's.

A lofty goal to be sure, as the core underpinnings would ultimately extend beyond just mobile devices.

The 55-year-old has held a "lofty ambition" to be a spaceman since he was a child in the far north of Scotland in the 1960s.