Sentence examples for very high minded from inspiring English sources
Should courts take an expansive view of their constitutional role?This all sounds very high minded.
This is all very high-minded.
Albeit a very high-minded, noble pederasty.
It's practiced in a very high-minded way.
"It was very high-minded," said Ms. Farewell, a travel writer in Westport, Conn.
In the Chappo, Japanese designers for Nissan took a very high-minded view of the idea that the box is a living as well as a storage space.
Osama bin Laden's siblings "are known as very high-minded and high-principled donors," Dr. Vogel said, adding that "supporting needy students is always given high value in the Islamic moral system".
The truth, though not very high-minded, is that Clinton's success over the next several months (not to mention the next nineteen) will hinge less on her plans for Yemen than on her ability to persuade people not to roll their eyes at the mention of another President Clinton.
Still, he found it impossible to deny that even very high-minded versions of egoism posed a problem, prescribing actions conflicting with the general good in such cases as heroic sacrifice of self in battle, etc.
When Socrates asks whether, then, he holds that justice is a vice, Thrasymachus instead defines it as an intellectual failing: "No, just very high-minded simplicity," while injustice is "good judgment" and is to be "included with virtue and wisdom" (348c-e).
