Word: highfalutin
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...people back home heard everything we said in the Senate," Mississippi's Senator Bilbo once blurted, "I wouldn't get re-elected and neither would some of my highfalutin colleagues...
Dishonored Lady (Stromberg; United Artists) features Hedy Lamarr, John Loder (Miss Lamarr's real-life husband) and Dennis O'Keefe in a highfalutin piece of problem-nonsense designed to wow women matinee-goers. Students of movie (and audience) morals may be interested...
When an almost oppressively sophisticated writer turns out so highfalutin a play, there may well be method, even if there is no meaning, in his claptrap. Very possibly Cocteau meant to polish up a lot of passe heroics into a rococo extravaganza that would be lively theater to boot. And very possibly The Eagle Has Two Heads is full of brilliant rhetoric, in French. But on Broadway it is just a grimly gaudy bore. Nor, for all her fire and force, can Actress Bankhead act it the one way that might be effective-with high artifice, in the immensely grand...
...Robert Hichens novel called Bella Donna (forerunner of the stories with spiced-up Mediterranean settings that used to run in Hearst's Cosmopolitan magazine), the turgid old yarn has been tried three times before in the movies. The verdict, in spite of its fine feathers, stylish production and highfalutin misbehavior, is guilty-too sluggish...
...same the U.S. over. Maggie recalls: "San Francisco was a little haughty, but Los Angeles was charming. Washington was amazing. It was an all-Debussy program and you couldn't give them anything more highfalutin. President Truman and Margaret sat through the encores, following the music on their own scores...