| They bring the highfalutin heroic language back down to earth and make it palatable. |
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| There's no surer way for a writer to make herself look stupid than to employ a highfalutin phrase incorrectly. |
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| I don't want to sound highfalutin, but the idea for that came to me from a play I'd seen at the old Vic under Jonathan Miller. |
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| Another way the film startles is its highfalutin talk about prime numbers, chaos theory and French post-impressionist painters. |
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| While some of his ideas might be highfalutin, you would never know it, because the dialogue sounds real and fresh. |
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| On prior evenings I had found that the most highfalutin dishes succeed the least. |
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| The phrase may seem at first highfalutin, but it accurately describes the phenomenon, and the phenomenon itself is not a rare thing. |
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| The man has a talent for spewing highfalutin drivel, and it can taint his otherwise engaging records. |
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| Forget all that highfalutin talk about competition and laissez-faire. |
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| Beyond Human Nature succeeds by delivering serious arguments that challenge the reader without seeming dense or highfalutin. |
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| Housed near the Uffizi Gallery, in one of the most culturally rich cities in the world, the museum has some highfalutin neighbors. |
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| A salad with a sugar-beet mousseline fades against its contemporaries, and a beautifully roasted quail is almost hijacked by too many highfalutin buddies. |
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| It's down-home and never highfalutin, slow-cooked and eaten fast, a sometimes sweet and always smoky feast that fills the gut as it feeds the soul. |
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| It's kinda less highfalutin than the books I've just finished. |
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| That phrase is maybe too highfalutin, but it's too famous to dispense with. |
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| There are better, less highfalutin explanations. For starters, many Britons already feel pretty highly taxed. |
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| Women often see EU decision-making as too distant, abstract and highfalutin. |
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| But whatever highfalutin label you put on Terkel's technique, it boils down to his ability to relate to people and get them to open up and talk frankly about their lives. |
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| Initially, we're meant to identify with Hart, who objects whenever Cohle's highfalutin Satre-isms get out of hand. |
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| If I stop to think about what being Australian means to me, despite all the highfalutin chef stuff in my life now, my suburban upbringing rises up. |
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| And the nuclear deal, an example of the sort of highfalutin foreign policy that bothers only a few high-powered ministers, journalists and others in India, may not matter much. |
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