| The cultural supplements of Germany's newspapers, always fond of high-flown debates, will have their work cut out for them this summer. |
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| Anyone who has read the Bronte Sisters knows the kind of high-flown passion the Victorians held dear. |
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| Whatever high-flown rhetoric comes from the president next week, the reality is clear-cut. |
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| It was not the last time the high-flown menu prose promised one thing while the actual dish delivered another. |
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| However, journalism did not change overnight and it still indulged in the Soviet practice of wordiness and high-flown rhetoric. |
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| Unlike Kurtz, he sees civilization in practical terms rather than through high-flown rhetoric. |
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| Setting aside the high-flown rhetoric of the age, the issues raised are with us still. |
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| Working people should not allow themselves to be deceived by the high-flown speeches, glossy brochures and fireworks displays. |
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| In terms of British theatrical history it represents the last great fling of the high-flown late Victorian tradition most readily associated with Sir Henry Irving. |
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| Both these groups tend to be highly suspicious of Mr Obama's high-flown rhetoric. |
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| I hope to avoid any more high-flown rhetoric about a Europe of values while our leaders refuse to act. |
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| A more modern concept understands a rhapsody to be an ecstatic, high-flown or strongly emotional utterance or literary work. |
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| Many pompous and high-flown letters are written that way because their writers are afraid to be friendly. |
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| I believe for all these reasons that high-flown arguments about informed choice are irrelevant in the context of labelling foods. |
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| Smaller PEM instruments, of which the results are actually put to use, are preferable to high-flown systems which are not implemented. |
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| His biography is eminently sensible on a subject about which much high-flown transcendental nonsense has been written. |
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| The guy was a state senator from Illinois, not exactly a high-flown position. |
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| It is expressed not in high-flown language but as a down-to-earth matter-of-fact promise. |
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| Any hint of talking down to the troops with high-flown hyperbole was promptly greeted with catcalls and Bronx cheers. |
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| Viewed in this light, his high-flown rhetoric about the timeless values of freedom and democracy can seem an abstraction fit only for university debating halls. |
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| It contains 823 pages of learned, high-flown, flowery reflections on the glorious if doomed role of the poet in a nasty world, with a high incidence of exclamation marks. |
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| But sometimes these boring measures bring more than high-flown technological achievements. |
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| Pearse had a flair for high-flown, violent rhetoric. |
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| Ms. Samie speaks in precise, high-flown French. |
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| The video-game vocabulary supports a high-flown register. |
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| The glosses and performances that count on the subversive character of broken, ravaged or soiled bodies today belong more to a genre of high-flown camp than to iconoclasm. |
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| The addition of fine, high-flown words often just ends up meaning nothing. |
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| What I wish from the parliamentary administration is a satisfactory solution to these outstanding issues rather than high-flown plans for interparliamentary summits or museum buildings. |
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| We cannot, and should not, pay lip service to high-flown ideas such as growth, employment, research, social solidarity and enlargement and, at the same time, not provide the funds to achieve them. |
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| Technical shortcomings, lack of agreement between hardware and software producers, and unclear copyright issues for content have halted the high-flown plans for the e-book thus far. |
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| As far as the intention of changing society through the schools is concerned, considerable disillusionment frequently ensued upon occasionally high-flown expectations. |
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| I see that as interesting, but also regrettable, for this makes it quite plain how the high-flown utterances of Heads of State or Government contrast with the austerity of their actions. |
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| It is not a matter of high-flown goals but of turning to God and others in the awareness that we depend on one another in this one world and can only live a meaningful life together. |
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| Our long debates will lead nowhere if we are unwilling either to put an end to the high-flown speeches or to allow the splendid words to be followed by action. |
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| We cannot and should not pay lip service to high-flown buzzwords such as growth', employment', research', social solidarity' and enlargement' and at the same time not provide the funds or flexibility to achieve them. |
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| And Mykelti Williamson, as the wild-haired fight promoter Don King, has a few moments of high-flown bunco in which he outdoes even Ali in nonsensical grandiloquence. |
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