The message is not that classical music is lofty, beautiful, cultured or superior.
The problem is not that the document lacks lofty ideals or is considered unimportant.
Though most of us are inculcated with the belief that the totality of sex is unknowable, maybe even divine, once you've spent some time with the new sex researchers, you learn that the actual mechanics of it all aren't that lofty.
Not that you think in such lofty terms while you're listening to the liveliest, funniest dialogue yet written by Mr. McPherson, who usually specializes in reflective arias.
Although not in that lofty league, there is one eatery with a particularly distinguished history that is relevant to the question of whether one should consume salads in Mexico.
No, George Bush doesn't make that lofty height.
It's this road map that will defeat ISIS, not the lofty rhetoric of Clinton or diatribes from Trump.
Granted, there is a thin shield of self-mocking irony, because the narrator is quoting from his own book review (a pompous and judgmental one, just like the reviews I was writing for this newspaper at the time), but still, it's hard not to hear that lofty pronouncement, at more than 15 years' distance, as a clear statement of the author's personal ambitions.
Overall, though, the law has not risen to that lofty ideal.
We can't even say that lofty patriotism and an enthusiasm for murder trials are unlikely to exist in the same bosom, since we ourself know at least two potential charter members of the WAAC.
