| While the poetry is cryptic, allusive and ambiguous, the prose is lucid, oracular, loftily self-assured. |
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| Our fear is based on ignorance, they loftily believe, and can be safely dismissed. |
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| Interviewees have thus been treated to loftily dismissive asides, barely stifled yawns and muffled harrumphs. |
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| However the Soviet government denies the existence of the famine and quotes peasants who loftily turn down the aid. |
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| It may just be the case that high-end Vancouver real estate is loftily suspended, awaiting such a nasty correction. |
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| It commissions exit polls, carries them, goads some politician into deriding them and then spends half an hour discussing loftily why exit polls serve a purpose. |
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| It could provoke retaliation, although the EU loftily says it would fight back at the WTO instead. |
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| Alas, as happened after the Danish referendum, the Union is loftily ignoring the message sent out by the people of Europe. |
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| Thus, Sanskrit loomed loftily as the classical language, and other Indian languages such as Tamil, and Bangla were reduced to mere vernacular status. |
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| They loftily asked those who watched The Real Housewives of New York City what was with the leg toss. |
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| While Washington wrote from inside the experience of the freed slaves, DuBois observes them loftily from above. |
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| The working poor', most of them women, working part-time, for a pittance and in the most insecure jobs, join the trail of poverty so loftily ignored in the official speeches about economic recovery. |
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| He's one of life's constants, like death and taxes, I noted loftily. |
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| We talked loftily about native self-government. |
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