Word: high-flown
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...Significance. While these intentionally high-flown phrases cannot be said to pin down either side to anything, they were interreted very generally as follows...
...served 17 years in the House as Congressman from Ohio, then 6 years in the Senate (1909-15), and has already rounded out more than another 4 years in the House. By this time he must be a little weary of high-sounding words, and a little skeptical of the saving virtues of high-flown agreements-skeptical perhaps, but not cynical. The son of a Congregational minister who believed in predestination and foreordination, he himself began with an intention of entering the ministry; but, after two years' preparation, turned to the law and politics. Always a serious mortal, with...
...National Child Welfare Association has a unique plan for improving bad boys. "We will make knights of them," it decided, thereupon founded the "Knighthood of Youth" (or "The Order of Character"). These knights do not curse and hold wassail; they do not devote themselves to the performance of high-flown absurdities in the interests of their ladies, brawl with one another with dangerous implements; there is no reveling about any table, round or otherwise; no spurring of jaded stallions; no wearing of women's garters on the cap. On the contrary, these are knights in name only. They are encouraged...
...burst of constructive criticism says that newspaper men must control the various schools of journalism throughout the country, and institute a vigorous weeding-out policy among the candidates, a policy which the Medical and Bar Associations have been pursuing in their own schools for some years. No galaxy of high-flown codes of ethics adorning the walls of newspaper offices will make journalism into a profession. Neither will diplomas, even from such excellent schools as the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University do it, unless the entrance requirements of these schools are raised and the scholars in them more...
Considering the difficulties of the situations and the impassioned, high-flown soliloquies which their roles demand the various members of the company sculpt themselves with credit. Miss Frances Anderson, in particular, as Edna Earl, is quite as noble and sugary as one could ask in the role of the fair heroine: and Mr. Sullivan, as St. Elmo, has perfect control of the mannerisms of all true villains...