Sentence examples for rather lofty from inspiring English sources

We've set ourselves the rather lofty target of £3000 so any support would be very much appreciated.

Fostering international peace is a rather lofty standard by which to measure the success of Lincoln Center as it begins its 50th-anniversary celebrations on Monday morning at the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall.

Initially having a rather lofty objective for 'the best superfast broadband in Europe' was also far from ideal, and mobile technology seems to have been disregarded for those especially hard to reach places.

While this sounds like a rather lofty goal for a business programme, the University of South Carolina firmly believes that humility is something than can and must be taught to those with a penchant for global business so much so, that part of our required coursework is a class in business ethnography.

He has had the latitude to make promises to protect health spending and clamp down on bankers, while avoiding promises to reverse recent tax rises.This emphasis on ideas may seem a rather lofty way of explaining the success of European conservatives during the recession, and the struggle of their allies in younger democracies to find a coherent and convincing voice.

It all sounds rather lofty.

With its gruesome violence and gore, it certainly looks very different to a movie like Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far from 1977 on a similar subject, but with a rather loftier officer's-eye-view.

Film-makers tend to pontificate, to adopt a rather grave, lofty persona.

What seemed to irritate Jackson was the double discourse, the way that Obama's rhetoric was, by design, being overheard by white audiences that might understand it not as brotherly sympathy but, rather, as lofty reproach.

On the streets of America's cities, however, rather less lofty attitudes are apparent".We're being overrun," says Ted Hayes of Choose Black America, which has led anti-immigration marches in south-central Los Angeles.

So in the interests of thorough research – and thorough research alone – I invited a gentleman friend of greater stature to stop by and give me the verdict from his rather more lofty perspective.