Sentence examples for too lofty for from inspiring English sources

But he was too thoughtful for diplomacy, too lofty for politics.

He had thumbed his nose at all political parties, pronouncing himself far too lofty for such riffraff.

A mayor is not expected to tell us "Yes, we can!" – it's altogether too lofty for cynical urbanites.

Blagoveshchenie means "annunciation," and the name is not too lofty for the city, which I thought the handsomest we'd been through since St . Petersburg

After pausing briefly to admire a spotlighted statue of Hatshepsut, the 18th-dynasty female ruler of Egypt, she resumed complaining about the gallery, whose height she deemed too lofty for the work on display.

It may also offset the characteristic advantage -- or halo -- Pinter has walked beneath for decades now: that of being author of "the Proust screenplay," a 175-page, published script of "A Remembrance of Things Past," a script not yet filmed yet somehow esteemed as too lofty for that coarse business.

At the time, this didn't seem too lofty of a goal.

Deciding to run a marathon after being a lifetime couch potato may be a little too lofty of a goal.

But "street photographer" is too lofty a designation for the guy you saw.

"Interpretive Mediterranean" is too lofty a description for what could be called Mediterranean Happy Meals.

Senna's eventual lifetime tally of £3.17m will likely prove too lofty a goal for The Imposter, but the film should have no problem besting the likes of Marley (£958,000), Man on Wire (£879,000) and maybe even the Perry doc (£1.17m).