Meanings of high-sounding words in English

Most attempts at a philosophy of sorrow just end in high-sounding words.

But with the Japanese such high-sounding words as these are quite unnecessary.

How many backs bowed low, how softly bombastic, high-sounding words were murmured!

The Prussian princes are not now in a position to utter high-sounding words.

Those lawyer chaps use such high-sounding words, you can't tell what they mean.

He clothed it in other and high-sounding words.

But there was one whom Gonzaga's high-sounding words in connection with that letter had left cold.

So I had no chance to throw the high-sounding words I had ready in their faces.

In his reply he did not fail to introduce the high-sounding words "liberty and equality."

Consisting mainly of German forces, they needed no high-sounding words to give blood in defense of their homeland.

She could not deny what her father had so pertinently expressed, yet these high-sounding words made no impression on her.

He can be roundabout, artificial, and vague; he can involve a simple statement in a mist of high-sounding words and elaborate inversions.

Youth was a graceful thing of high-sounding words and impetuous thoughts, but like many other graceful things it could be hard and cruel.

A year ago he had thought of poetry as strings of high-sounding words which produced a pleasant mental reaction, something abstract and exotic.

Of what use to talk of offended honor with high-sounding words when, if one were truthful, one would own it was offended vanity?

No high-sounding words about freedom, no Godless philosophy, no infidel creed, which robs men of homes here and heaven hereafter, can save this nation.