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How to use lofty in a sentence

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He and the hedgie took in funds without making any specific promises, but their investors' expectations were lofty.
Our religion is too lofty, noble and humane to have such thugs and killers.
On the one hand it proclaims lofty ideals, and on the other it prevents disclosure.
The GGA failed to live up to its lofty and noble ideals due largely to the self-serving nature of some of its less progressive members.
Generation after generation of Americans has understood the lofty ideals that underlie our great Republic.
His actions have distressed the great many journalists who go to pains every day to uphold the lofty ideals of their chosen craft.
To accomplish that lofty goal, Fulham must finish among the top five clubs in the much more competitive league.
Some will smirk at such lofty aspirations, calling them silly, if not impossible.
A noble and lofty goal, the setup is an interesting one but the actual action is brutally difficult.
It's a lofty ideal and one which will probably remain in the ivory tower of newspaper journalism, but I would add one caveat.
However, considerable friction arose from the beginning between lofty republican ideals and the lure of distant lands.
A passionate nativism marched in lock step with a sense of a lofty imperial mission.
In particular, we should aim to follow their example and not let anything stand in the way of lofty intellectual pursuit.
Indeed, the whole of the French governing elite maintained a lofty disdain for the episode.
Will the Irish media engage, or will it maintain its lofty disdain for the president and his people?
Given that organisation's lofty disdain for those of us working in the popular press, it is also very tempting to do so.
What you need to cultivate here, as a composer, is an air of lofty disdain for us poor sweat-shop craftspeople down here.
As Kant remarked, this is said in a lofty, disdainful tone, full of the presumption of wanting to reform reason by experience.
However, the ITA took a rather lofty and somewhat patronizing view of the abilities of independent producers.
Unlike their British and American counterparts, French politicians have generally exhibited a lofty disdain for the concept of crafting an image.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The temples were built on lofty platforms, to give them a more commanding appearance.
No other mountains in the world are at once so continuously lofty and so near a coast which drops off to abyssal depths.
I found, too, that a lofty idea prevails in Ceylon in regard to the status of the monkhood.
On the 27th of the same month he camped at the foot of the lofty cliffs of Acoma.
We are not for a moment to consider Cesare as actuated in all this by any lofty humanitarianism.
He did love her, love her adoringly, as he loved what was great and lofty in art.
Their notion of the real meaning of the period of affiance commended itself entirely to his lofty sentiments.
They were overawed, too, by the lofty and passionate energy with which agrippina had spoken.
Here and there the airway was lofty enough to allow us to walk with bent heads and rounded shoulders.
An unutterably pure and lofty joy filled my soul, and I felt, as if we were out of the body floating on ambient clouds.
This lofty and blase greeting can come from none other than Roland Barnette.
The condition of any permanent influx is that the attunement should be habitually and continuously lofty.
It must recognize that there is little hope in going back to lofty Augustan ideals.
This Greek bireme, with its shallow hull and lofty, open superstructure, could hardy have been a seaworthy vessel.
In the first stage from the ground, and rising from a channelled base, are two lofty pointed arches resting on slender pillars.
The lofty spur of the Chiltern Hills which overhangs the church of Ellsborough is traditionally the site of his tomb.
Although Cobourg Island was 45 miles distant from us, its lofty rounded outlines were very distinct, and much covered with snow.
Where this chain is lofty, as between Malabar and Coimbatore, the rainclouds are intercepted and give a rainfall of 150 in.
In coley's eyes they were phenomenal, and he was inclined to resent the colonel's lofty manner.
Passing up a valley between lofty hills, noticed a corduroy road made of transverse trunks of trees, as seen in Canada.
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