| One cannot fail to be thrilled by the cragginess and gaunt loftiness of such a reading that is enshrined in the history of recordings. |
| Ellis is a decent man in many ways, but he has a loftiness, an aloofness, that supporters and players find patronising. |
| The problem here is that while the joke is very clever and to be lauded for its loftiness in ambition, it doesn't make you laugh. |
| Time will easily solve the latter inconsistency, but the loftiness of Paterson's tone is more troubling. |
| But what Craig lacks in loftiness he makes up for in, as he would put it, cragginess. |
| Always a promising singer, in the past he has seemed to hide something of his personality behind a certain emotional loftiness. |
