Sentences with phrase «highfalutin term»

98.395 percent of the American car - buying public has no idea that «brake» is the diminutive version of «shooting brake,» which is a highfalutin term for a «station wagon» here in the Land of the Free.

It's «lady,» which can be interpreted as a somewhat pretentious or highfalutin term for a woman and «bird,» which is a metaphor for someone who wants to fly, but maybe launches out of the nest before she's ready.

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No matter how highfalutin» a writer's work, no matter how often their prose has been dissected using terms such as trope, motif, and anxiety of influence, they all secretly want to write hard - boiled crime fiction — and most of them are brave enough to put their own names on it.

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.

Okay, so what is this highfalutin Exynos chip capable of in real - world terms?