"I guess that's what they call hifalutin," said Sunbeam; "now do tell it right." ❋ Edward Eggleston (1869)
I accept the descriptor "hifalutin" if what it describes are texts that are more sophisticated than the average comic book. ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2004)
In the comments section, he quotes another blogger who found our use of the term "hifalutin" and said that it detracted from his enjoyment of the book. ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2004)
In his acceptance speech before mine, Mango Comics publisher Zach Yonzon referred to Siglo as "hifalutin", in the context of his book even being nominated (it was a compliment). ❋ Dean Francis Alfar (2004)
These ideas are forced so strongly upon me as I travel westward, that I almost fear that I am writing in a "hifalutin" style, so I will only add that I think that our Oriental Grand Vizier knew Oriental character and the way of influencing Oriental modes of thinking better than his detractors when he added et Imperatrix to the much loved V. R. ❋ Isabella Lucy (1883)
He has no useless flourish in his manner, and none of the 'hifalutin' in his style. ❋ James M. Trotter (1867)
Young Lyman talked in a "hifalutin" style, but with some truth in it, of the influence of a woman's presence, how ❋ Unknown (1867)
Paul did not pretend to be a connoisseur in paintings, and could neither understand nor appreciate the fine writing he read about them in books, or the "hifalutin" which affected men bestowed upon them; but in the presence of the grand old painting, he was awed and silenced. ❋ Oliver Optic (1859)
the word you objectors are searching for is " hifalutin' " ❋ Unknown (2008)
Americans call "hifalutin" tendencies in speech and conduct, and as he listened to the preaching of the new Gospel doubts and questionings spontaneously rose in his mind: "What do those young people, who betray their gentlefolk origin by their delicate white hands, their foreign phrases, their ignorance of the common things of everyday peasant life, really want? ❋ Donald Mackenzie Wallace (1880)
Fiona Shaw, Lindsay Duncan and Alan Rickman, heading the cast, are giving the grand style such a work-out that audiences -- depending on their appetite for such hifalutin histrionics -- will come away from the experience either greatly dazzled or severely dazed. ❋ David Finkle (2011)
In recent years, however, as the spirits market has gravitated toward rarer and higher-end concoctions, they've gotten a little hifalutin. ❋ Tony Sachs (2010)
So I've been watching a little "soccer" here and I've been reading a lot of things about why the sport isn't more popular in America, and of course this is precisely the kind of subject on which everybody wants to come up with really hifalutin cultural theories and invoke, oh, Henry James on the American character or Edmund Wilson or (best of all) Baudrillard. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Another friend who'd come out of retirement some years back to found a hifalutin 'institute at the University of Calgary had completed his task. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And there's nothing novel about his stance that only he and his hifalutin friends in the media should be extended the special privilege of breaking the news: in Washington, DC, that's sacred liturgy. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)
Have you seen that [pompous] [law student]? He's such a hifalutin [knobjockey]. ❋ Heath Raftery (2006)
