And Lola and the baby had chimed in loftily, All men ought to have hobbies. ❋ Unknown (1922)
"School will teach you a number of things," said her cousin loftily. ❋ Unknown (1911)
"I shall see to the paperwork, " Lawford said loftily, meaning he wanted to lie down for an hour, and he nodded curtly at Sharpe and, beckoning his servants, went to find his billet. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (2003)
“People do my dirty work for me,” said Fancy, loftily. ❋ Dia Reeves (2011)
Frederick Palmer remembered that London, during this period of the war, was a loner at the front, loftily isolated form his colleagues with his separate mess tent and servants, "general and private of his army of one, he rode in front of his two pack-donkeys, which jingled with bells, the leader bearing an American flag." ❋ Unknown (2010)
"The paper has been withdrawn because it contained direct passages from other sources without the necessary citation or attribution," says the respected body a tad loftily. ❋ Unknown (2011)
“So she can record her most private thoughts and deepest desires”, Duncan informed me loftily this morning, jamming the lid closed—it bulged but finally latched. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)
But what else can you expect, when you attempt to practice apartheid while loftily talking about your own right to exist? ❋ Unknown (2009)
"Normally, for a news story to continue beyond the first 24-hour news cycle, something newsworthy must occur," he writes loftily, but "The Rogue" is filled with proof to the contrary. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It was an inglorious episode on both sides, with its roots in an expanding imperial power being rebuffed in its efforts to trade: there was nothing, the Chinese loftily replied to the British emissaries, that China needed or wanted from the west – not their goods, not their ideas and certainly not their company. ❋ Unknown (2011)
But you can also see why the distinction between the Public Interest, loftily defined, and what actually happens to interest the public, not-so-loftily defined, is a piece of rhetorical legerdemain that masks a raw assertion of privilege. ❋ Bret Stephens (2011)
It is clear from the opening that Redmayne's Richard is a man encased in ritual: he sits silently on the throne in an incense-filled chamber as the audience assembles, loftily accepts courtly obeisance and clutches a sceptre as proof of his divine right. ❋ Unknown (2011)
As we approach the adorable shorts and T-shirts hanging loftily from miniature hangers, my eyes begin to skim the racks. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)
The university building has been designed with cross-fertilisation in mind, so the formerly sequestered departments have been encouraged by its architecture to collaborate and compete for attention: the fashion studios with their rows of half-dressed mannequins look over at the rigour of graphic design; fine arts gazes loftily down on the weaving room of the textile department, in which banks of looms display the threads of intricate pattern-making. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"His body language projected how helpless he seems in the face of player power," Andy informed us, explaining loftily that Sir Alex looked "bemused"? shedding light for all those struggling with Ferguson's statement: "We are as bemused as anyone can be." ❋ Marina Hyde (2010)
Wivenhoe Bookshop23 High Street, Wivenhoe, Essex CO7 9BE, 01206 824050Behind the charming 17th-century clapboard facade of Wivenhoe Bookshop lie two small but perfectly formed rooms filled with books, and a large shed in the courtyard out back, loftily known as the event space. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The rickety underpinnings of his philosophy are constantly being exposed in "Proud Beggars"—there's nothing loftily motiveless about the murder, after all, since it is triggered by drug addiction, and Gohar's claim that one more death is nothing in light of the world's "immense charade" seems like the most banal sort of special pleading. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)
