This high-sounding rhetoric is all well and good as theory, but it goes only so far in the real world, as other passing novelists point out. |
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Apart from a few high-sounding and hollow phrases in the election manifesto, they have moved even further to the right. |
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Instead, his speech to the UN assembly was full of high-sounding generalities and evasions. |
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Our leaders have at last realised that the voter expects more than high-sounding speeches and slogans. |
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Sure, again and again, I betrayed my own high-sounding calls for social justice and economic fairness. |
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Mankind to-day has had more than enough of high-sounding principles and beautiful declarations. |
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Divested of their high-sounding platitudes, these programs were intended to train the nation's future leaders. |
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This hall has heard enough high-sounding declarations to last us for some decades to come. |
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Despite their high-sounding rhetoric, however, initial reforms were halting, and throughout the 1990s Ukraine endured severe stagnation. |
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By this time the beliefs were given even more high-sounding names such as ideals, freedom, conscience, God, country, sacred path. |
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It certainly seems to have the high-sounding tome of a presidential pronouncement. |
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Click Image To View Our Gallery of Memorable U.N. Moments For all the high-sounding rhetoric, this is an awful week. |
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We have too many high-sounding words and not enough actions to correspond with them. |
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There are plenty of examples for that in spite of the high-sounding principled language about monitoring arms sales. |
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The national governments and the EU restrict themselves to high-sounding declarations, while avoiding concrete measures. |
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We do not want to offer the developing countries merely high-sounding words, but quite concretely a better deal. |
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Universities of real quality, not of mere high-sounding and often meaningless titles. |
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A veritable mine of high-sounding phrases, in addition to the tried-and-true platitudes of yesteryear. |
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The man who wishes to avoid suspicion of being a fuzzy thinker will prune his high-sounding phrases. |
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For beneath the high-sounding arguments lurks a far more sordid reality. |
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Expediency often involves the abandonment of war's more high-sounding objectives. |
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So far there has been nothing concrete behind high-sounding claims such as the Lisbonisation' of resources and the globalisation fund. |
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Too often, they were simply bantered around as high-sounding slogans. |
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Since then, nothing has happened, apart from promises and high-sounding words. |
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Hurwitz came onstage and spouted high-sounding phrases for 45 minutes. |
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The Canadian Human Rights Commission thinks it best to steer clear of high-sounding rhetoric while doing what it can to encourage those internal bodies that actually promote positive changes on the ground. |
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Pompous, trite, high-sounding, cautiously guarded. |
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This is high-sounding, but it is plain truth. |
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But these polite, high-sounding terms do not go far enough. |
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Firstly, I believe that we should be a little mistrustful of high-sounding slogans and goals such as the Lisbon objectives, to which we are constantly referring. |
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We cannot make high-sounding declarations about the subsidiarity principle on the one hand and keep forever demanding fresh initiatives from the Commission on the other. |
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It uses lots of high-sounding words that give the impression that the EU is professional, well organised and has properly-maintained financial records. |
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Let me reply by saying that I would be the first person to reject aims founded on high-sounding phrases but devoid of any real substance, and our track record bears me out on this. |
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Despite high-sounding principles, adherence to the bottom line of profits without principles has, so far, ensured that standards of disclosure and transparency in Angola remain those of the lowest common denominator. |
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Beyond the high-sounding and often sincere declarations, in the view of Reporters Without Borders only the appearance of privately-owned and really independent news media will allow us to talk of real change in Libya. |
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Other related types of nonstandard word usage include cant and jargon, synonyms for vague and high-sounding or technical and esoteric language not immediately intelligible to the uninitiate. |
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They are only high-sounding phrases, expressing their good intention. |
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These are not just high-sounding words but facts of history, thoroughly discussed by Max Scheler and other axiologists. |
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