high-minded

Delegates might start with high-minded rhetoric about coming together and getting along, but they would swiftly pivot to attacking people for perceived differences, usually with weird conspiracy theories.

He suffered fools badly, and saw his articles as part of a high-minded battle of ideas.

That latter frame is how the media and political elites have defined it all along, and that supposedly high-minded has only served to enable and empower judicial tyranny.

The younger ensemble members seem to have wandered in from a 21st century culture unimaginable to the play’s high-minded patriarch.

In bullet points and numbered sections, the report championed high-minded ideas like accountability and humility.