high-mindedness
Example Sentences
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It is when Mary resigns herself to learning and high-mindedness that her life-scheme goes happily awry.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
“It’s not a good look and it’s being justified with high-mindedness like ‘democratisation’ of markets,” he warned.
From The Guardian • Jan. 30, 2021
Their foe is the clock and the rise and the flavors and Paul Hollywood’s bad opinions, not their fellow contestants or the edit, a high-mindedness that makes the series uniquely wholesome, pleasant, and comforting.
From Slate • May 18, 2020
Williamson took the other Democrats onstage to task for their high-mindedness in discussing issues, saying, “I want a politics that goes much deeper . . . that speaks to the heart.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2019
The hollering and the high-mindedness over, all that would be left would be another shabby little affair a la the Birmingham country club set, and a self-constructed private Gehenna with the latest Westinghouse appliances.
From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee
