toplofty

Example Sentences

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Reading the toplofty Mr. Grantham, one can almost hear the voice of Shakespeare’s Puck—“What fools these mortals be.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

This settled quality makes Trilling’s letters a bit toplofty and dull.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2018

Every miler at Madison Square Garden had heard the I.O.C.'s toplofty President Avery Brundage's ominous pronouncement: "If I were a runner, I would not be running tonight against Santee."

From Time Magazine Archive

It often irritates politicians with toplofty editorials suggesting that the paper is not only on the side of the angels but right alongside them in heaven.

From Time Magazine Archive

There he proceeded, in a sincere but somewhat toplofty way to enlighten the British public on the subject of culture.

From Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by Long, William Joseph