Sentence examples for the high sounding from inspiring English sources

--"The high sounding phrase, 'the American way', will be used by interest groups, intent on profit, to cover a multitude of sins against the American and Christian traditions" --Halford E. Luccock, Yale Divinity School, September 12 , 1938

Learn the notes, which are G D A and E. E is the highest sounding pitch.

"There are plenty of examples for that in spite of the high-sounding principled language about monitoring arms sales".

The Lincolnians, it was generally asserted, were fighting only for the preservation of the union, not for the high-sounding cause of emancipation.

There is growing fury, just visible beneath Ghani's veneer of calm, at the contrast between the high-sounding language of capacity-building and the reality of capacity confiscation.

The EU is working on a new directive to ensure that temporary workers hired through agencies receive the same pay and conditions as equivalent full-time workers.If the Barcelona summit fails to give liberalisation a boost, then it is likely that the outside world will stop listening to the high-sounding promises made in Lisbon two years ago.

What Wall Street wants, Barney delivers, even if it makes the high-sounding title of his committee's bill into rather a bad joke.

With a little tweaking, they could easily serve as a defense of The Lord of the Rings against charges that its high sounding language was at variance with the 'juvenile' plot".

With a click of the button on their iPhones people can now take over public squares, block traffic, attract television cameras, stare down the police, and shout out high sounding slogans ad nauseam.

He defends the Beowulf poet's use of high sounding language that was anachronistic even in [the poet's] time.

In a letter to his daughter, he wrote: "All this is the sequence of Gen. Pope's high sounding manifestoes.