I like to think I'm engaged in a bit of civil disobedience, but that's an awfully highfaluting title for a simple act of citizen outrage. ❋ Unknown (2010)
HAMMER: The producers of Pam ` s new show are saying it ` s going to be highfaluting. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One voice is a "we" located in the Orthodox community who begins each chapter with highfaluting rumination on some Jewish topic, and goes on to narrate events from the perspectives of Dovid, the cousin, who is afflicted with colorful (literally) migraines, and Esti, the former lover, who appears to be autistic but turns out to be (I think) enlightened. ❋ Becca (2007)
I'm fairly confident that the vast majority of my fellow Americans know the word, if at all, only as a part of some weird British institutions; "privy to" is a highfaluting phrase over here and would be used only as a show of erudition, and even those who know the phrase would I suspect be unable to tell you what exactly "privy" means. ❋ Unknown (2004)
We in the communities, in the labour movement, in the schools, are saying it is not enough to write highfaluting theories about us, get doctorates in the process, and become so-called experts on this or that organisation or field, to develop your scathing critiques from the safe walls and desks of your professions, and thereby hope to gain acceptance or recognition in our daily struggles. ❋ Unknown (1988)
DURING THESE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS, particularly since the advent of the present Government - I am not trying to compare evils, as the previous one was not basically better, but of course there can be bad and worse and so on - there has been more and more legislation of this character, sometimes having these rather highfaluting titles such as University Acts, ❋ Unknown (1961)
Introduction upon the _highfaluting_ style so common among us. ❋ Various (N/A)
But, while men admire and reverence a sweet and simple feminine soul -- and love her in plays and between the covers of a book and when she is talking highfaluting abstractions of morality -- and wax wroth with any other man who ignores or neglects her -- they do not in their own persons become infatuated with her. ❋ Unknown (1911)
The bombastic spread-eagle orator, the grandiloquent gas bag, the highfaluting stump speaker gain few verdicts and win small applause except from their clients. ❋ Arthur Cheney Train (1910)
He's got the highfaluting blood all right, but he is shy of the skads, so he protects his dignity and pride of race by bumming his way over the world, like an English milord with a ruined castle and an overdraft at the bank. ❋ Unknown (1909)
He's got to give up this highfaluting nonsense of his if he expects me to support him. ❋ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1909)
Now, however, he felt that Gabriel's highfaluting nonsense was carrying him away. ❋ Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1909)
After dinner her father pleaded for a music-hall as against what he called "some highfaluting, teacup English play." ❋ Earl Derr Biggers (1908)
How gorgeous to belong to a highfaluting family that's got legends and ghosts. ❋ Angela Brazil (1907)
In point of style it is a curious jumble of American sense and Southern _highfaluting_. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)
Thus, they assume that falsifying unpleasant facts is a right of the messengers of a truth so highfaluting that the average person is incapable to understand it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
French green lentils partnered with the duck, while our pork came with a golden potatoes rosti, a sort of highfaluting hash brown cake. ❋ Unknown (2010)
