Word: loftier
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...probably wasn't thinking of the elite group of recipients of France's Legion of Honor. But a comedian as sharp and profound as Marx would, no doubt, not welcome induction into club whose ranks have begun to swell with people nominated purely for their celebrity rather than any loftier merits. That list grew further, Thursday, when President Nicolas Sarkozy conferred the title on Canadian singer Céline Dion, welcoming her into the company of Alexis de Tocqueville, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Gustave Flaubert, Alexander Graham Bell and Albert Dreyfus - and also Jerry Lewis. Not surprisingly, some observers suggest that...
...tells her husband Harry (Chris Cooper, “American Beauty”) that “love is sex.” Pat and Harry are a middle-aged couple in a rut living in the 1940s. Unlike his wife, Harry is a sentimentalist who has loftier notions of love. He tells his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan, “Die Another Day”), “I always dreamed of a woman being truly in love with me.” This difference of opinion, which could have been wonderfully humorous, develops into a mundane debate...
...already gotten out of this job in the first year, especially from voters and the legislature." That's a nice political sentiment. But after watching Charlie Crist's first year, it's hard not to think that the "Sunshine Governor," as some call him, doesn't have loftier aspirations for the years ahead...
...rating above 2500 was grand master; 2600 meant membership in the Top 10; 2700 was world-champion territory. And even above that was Bobby Fischer, at the very top with 2785. I became world champion in 1985, but true to Nikitin's vision, I had an even loftier goal; it took me four full years to surpass Fischer's rating record...
...each member of this two-man Over-the-Hill gang makes a list of things to do before kicking the bucket. Edward wants a few kicks: skydiving, tattoo, drag-racing. Carter has a loftier agenda: "Laugh until I cry." (That one kicks in around minute 86.) "Help a complete stranger." (Guess who?) "Witness something truly majestic." (Reiner clearly wants audiences leaving his movie to believe that's what they've just done.) They go to France for a great meal, Africa for a safari, Egypt for the Pyramids, India for the Taj Mahal, Nepal to scale Mount Everest. Carter...