high-flown

Cinema purists have a tendency to speak of the theatrical experience in such high-flown spiritual terms.

Abe’s are high-flown, pretentious — which is but one way this plot thread recalls the infamous electronic flirtation between the novelist Jonathan Safran Foer and the actress Natalie Portman.

But this is no high-flown intellectual teach-in.

“Those are really high-flown questions to ask. And I’m not going to pretend that this film asks all of those questions and definitely doesn’t answer any of them. But that was the essence of the idea.”

Not that all is high-flown or esoteric.