Word: high-flown
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...race settled down into a contest of durability on a track foul with exhaust fumes and simmering with bakeoven heat. For all their high-flown names (Springfield Welding Special, Cop-Sil-Loy Brake Special, Grancor-Elgin Piston Pin Special), all but one of the low-slung racers were powered by four-cylinder Meyer-Drake engines...
...lived his subject, Author Eyster steers the Dreher's crew through training and up the long ladder of South Pacific victory, from New Ireland to New Guinea, from the Solomons to the Carolines, from the Marianas to the Philippines. Between actions, in endless and high-flown bull sessions, he tries to solve the riddle of human personality as it clashes and cleaves in wartime. He does better when he gets away from the Dreher and its talky crew. He has watched the sea closely and when he keeps a bridle on his metaphors, he writes about it well...
Griffes: Poem (Julius Baker, flute; orchestra conducted by Daniel Saidenberg; Decca). U.S. Composer Charles Griffes was influenced by both German and French romantic composers before he began to develop his own style, but he died in 1920 (at 36), before he reached full recognition. Poem, a high-flown fantasy of French impressionist extraction, gets a stunning performance from one of Manhattan's finest flutists...
...July, had the upper hand now, and he kept it. There was no pressure on him except from the air, which he countered with his jets and hard-hitting anti-aircraft defenses. The U.N. had no policy except to try beating down the Red negotiators "with verbal maneuvers and high-flown rhetoric-which had no more effect than so much birdshot against a tank...
...Swift & Friends. The best thing about the book is its lack of pretentiousness: Jensen has avoided high-flown speculations about the metaphysics and poetry of flight, has sensibly followed a straight chronological pattern. His opening section mixes solid historical accounts of the infancy of flying with a John Dos Passes dithyramble (from The Big Money) on the Wright brothers, a pleasantly batty story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on an "air jungle" high over Britain, and a tale about Tom Swift taking" his girl up, which opens with the classic line: "Oh, Tom, is it really safe...