high-flown

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

The jovial candid photos of the leaders and their high-flown speeches amply testified to the event’s momentousness.

That kind of high-flown ambition, applied not just to revitalizing military defense but to succoring refugees, Stamp said, would “confront Vladimir Putin with something he doesn’t know: humanity.”

Just before it began, he sent a high-flown letter to The Times, which had once pontificated that “the hanging of a few of the desperados engaged in this business would have a salutary effect.”

But a sense of futility is equally inadequate, and Alameddine has no taste for the magical-realist variants or high-flown lyricism attempted by other novelists when writing about refugees.