Sentence examples for to be lofty from inspiring English sources
verb
To exist; to have real existence.
It's particularly egregious that universities meant to be lofty, educational institutions at the forefront of culture change and critical analysis would lag behind on this issue.
The rain will stop, the waves will subside, the clouds will part in the cleared up sky, and they'll be once more what clouds ought to be: lofty and rather lighthearted in their likeness to things drying in the sun— isles of bliss, lambs, cauliflowers, diapers.
"We'll keep our goals to ourselves for the moment but, rest assured, they are going to be lofty goals".
"I think people are wishing stocks up after 200-point decline and options expiration on Friday," says Volk, who expects to see the market plagued by the bearish sentiment surrounding the U.S. economy, and technology valuations that still are considered by investors to be lofty.
They don't have to be lofty or ambitious things.
The appeal has to be loftier — to the national interest or at least the political future of the national Republican Party, said Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland, the House Democratic leadership's liaison to the budget talks.
It might even be lofty and immodest.
"What he wanted to do was lofty and on the side of the angels.
Its ambition could hardly be loftier: to redefine the museum for the twenty-first century.
Wharton experts agree that one of the biggest risks to product launches is lofty expectations.
One of the main barriers to carrier payments are lofty carrier rates.
