Sentences with phrase «highfalutin by»

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It is [defined by] the pragmatism, common sense, and basic sanity of the British people, worlds apart from highfalutin sermonising».

What: The title, in conjunction with the awards season release date, may have the highfalutin whiff of prestige Oscar bait — perhaps some saga of love and heartache in the Spanish countryside — but this is about the bull, Ferdinand (voiced by former wrestler Cena), and his big heart.

Dream worlds in movies are nothing new — witness the oeuvre of David Lynch or, for a less highfalutin example, the Nightmare on Elm Street series — but the visual ideas put forth by Singh are spectacular and unique; there's an atmosphere of excess that hasn't even been reached in Lynch's famously bizarre work.

I don't know, I'm not part of that conspiracy, and I see a lot of assertions on here and elsewhere by people who imply they are smart, or at least smart enough to know more on this issue than the climate scientists who actually professionally study it, who throw around large highfalutin science terms, but that repeatedly misconstrue the basic climate change issue itself, conflate the process of science with Climate Change refutation, seem to have an extensively poor understanding of the issue, and take small select bits of data as part of the ongoing total picture of increasing overall corroboration, to falsely equate that with a flaw in Climate Change theory itself, or as a referendum on it.

Attempts to build a larger vocabulary can make bad writing worse, as poor writing fundamentals are only worsened by adding highfalutin» words.

But they can't be so highfalutin as to be passed over by the non-technical person doing initial screening because they just don't understand.

- Do not buy into the highfalutin images created by marketing experts.