'lofty words' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe words that are elevated in style, full of grandeur or expressing lofty sentiments. Example sentence: He used only lofty words to express his gratitude.
LOFTY words are always a hostage to fortune.
"Strengthening and expanding the middle class requires more than lofty words," Mr. de Blasio wrote.
Why has President Obama been so unwilling to match his lofty words with concrete deeds?
Yet amid all the lofty words, he gave no hint of when the PKK should withdraw.
Now Americans are challenged to infuse President-elect Obama's lofty words into our daily lives.
Lofty Words Poetry on the Peaks is coordinating readings on mountains around the world this year.
The chorus is clever, too — the highest notes of the song land on the loftiest words ("all" and "deep") and then, as Adele stays on the same word, the melody falls, mimicking the alternation of anger and sorrow that undergirds this rant against a loser who threw it all away.
Ms. Albert doesn't like to think of JT Leroy as a hoax, preferring the loftier word "myth".
Although Cuomo's tactics--he would have had a loftier word for them, of course--have regularly been dismissed by political commentators as self-destructive and boring, "boring" continues to grab political attention.
She grasps the social and theological implications of his theories perhaps more fully than he does, and they exchange some lofty, heated words about God.
It would seem that some of the president's lofty campaign words about raising the integrity of government may well be coming back to haunt him.
