Word: loftier
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...audience experiences moments of scandalized amusement interspersed with unsentimental sympathy (the musical also treats loftier themes such as love lost and found), with a generalized envy of the actors and their vivaciousness. Their dynamic characters—which are more accurately described as character sketches—experience emotional highs and lows, yet retain a palpable zest for life despite an array of hinted-at trials and tribulations...
That record may not stand long. In this era of extreme sports--when even an 80-year-old former President dons a skydiving suit and jumps out of a plane to celebrate his birthday--big-wave surfers have set their sights on a loftier, more hubris-laden goal: a 100-ft. wave. "Twenty years ago, no one would ever have conceived of [riding] a 100-ft. wave," says Sam George, editor of Surfer magazine. "But the surfers that are really at the vanguard today are confident they can ride [one]." In 2001 they were further emboldened in their quest when...
With the pressure of its first Ivy League win behind it, the team can now concentrate on loftier goals...
...another’s financial circumstances. There is always a contingent of first-years who regularly desert Annenberg in favor of more expensive dining offerings—the same fortunate few who every spring pick the priciest vacation destinations. For those students who cannot afford Harvard’s loftier of lifestyles, who suffer through dining hall fare day after day—for whom spring break means a bus ride home, instead of a flight to Bermuda—by the time senior year arrives, they learn that the barriers of economic class extend, not surprisingly, to class spirit...
...most members of the Harvard wrestling team, finishing third in the NCAA championship just once would be enough, let alone twice. But senior Jesse Jantzen (149 pounds) has a loftier goal in mind—winning the national championship...