high-flown

Best line: “No amount of straining for high-flown uplift can disguise the fact that The Goldfinch is a turkey.”

The guy was a state senator from Illinois, not exactly a high-flown position.

Something between an earthly Queen and a divine Egeria; "Serena" he calls her; and, in his high-flown fashion, is very laudatory.

Toland's admiration, deducting the high-flown temper and manner of the man, is sincere and great.

But they are lost among long and high-flown speeches, which Lear keeps incessantly uttering quite inappropriately.

History is too often written in a high-flown manner that renders it wearisome and false.

This is no high-flown sentimentality, but a simple reflection, which I find useful to me every day.