Significados de lofty em inglês

Meanwhile, current elevated oil prices are a serious concern to growth prospects.

Special pleading has been elevated to an art form in recent days.

Gregarious Simulation Systems elevated the MMO concept to an entirely new level.

Ozone, which also causes breathing difficulties, is also present at elevated levels.

So far, few samples have shown elevated levels of toxins, she said.

The position and the occasion were the height of the moral sublime.

The sublime is the representation of something powerful, in a simple form.

De Kock was in sublime form, striking 17 fours and a six.

We eternally step from the sublime to the ridiculous; we want taste.

The resolution that bore him up at this crisis was morally sublime.

In time, she will certainly earn her place in their exalted company.

Omnipotence cannot be exalted; Infinity cannot be amplified; Perfection cannot be improved.

The citizens went to the polls in a mood of exalted self-denial.

If thou wilt be exalted in heaven, humble thyself in the world.

He exalted the dignity of labor, and scorned all baseness and lies.

Looking back, it was extraordinarily idealistic; but it was also a strategy.

However, the cynic in me finds that to be idealistic at best.

Even today, nine decades on, the unaccompanied choral writing seems implausibly idealistic.

But that's missing the point of this terrifically humane and idealistic film.

At first, however reluctant to be a cop, he was still idealistic.

One reason might be the rarefied nature of the high court's work.

It's a small and rarefied group that Hitchcock fits right in with.

We needn't look as far as the heavens to find rarefied environments.

The rarefied atmosphere of these high regions makes the stomach frightfully hollow.

The rarefied air scarcely gave play to the action of my lungs.

Hybrid cars popular with noble-minded Hollywood stars also provide a recent example.

But that upright man was too noble-minded to take a mean revenge.

He was generous, humane, and noble-minded, when passion did not blind him.

Are you noble-minded enough to accept such a state, do you think?

He is the born prototype of progress, and noble-minded to a degree!

And TNF has never been more everyday having navigated a trek from the elevated niche of a technical brand to the less-rarified high street.

The Martians experience no difficulty in living in a rarified atmosphere.

For four years they had lived in the rarified atmosphere of celestial friendship.

All the Tugela operations had been conducted in a rarified medium.

Philosophy also has been itself of late working in a pretty rarified region.

The public expects something more than high-minded declarations of transparency and accountability.

Last year, Australia gained its first sex museum, which is similarly high-minded.

The majority of the board was composed of high-minded and able men.

I never met a more high-minded set of men in any country.

When they were just a city, they were supposedly high-minded and self-controlled.

For the next two days Carrie indulged in the most high-flown speculations.

The expert was a little puzzled by sentiments so high-flown and unpractical.

He returned a high-flown phrase of thanks in a bitter, absent whisper.

They hate nonsense, sentimentalism, and high-flown expressions; they use a studied plainness.

Bell had had high-flown notions as to the absolute glory of poverty.