Sentences with phrase «how highfalutin»

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.

We're not sure how the highfalutin, chin - stroking analysis and pretentious punditry of football goes down with the regulars in the...

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An irony: amid all this highfalutin braggadocio of how close we are to computers taking over the world and emulating human thought, I had to give my talk on the «social singularity» (progress in political, economic and social systems over the past 10,000 years) early because Rice University computer scientist James McLurkin could not get his small swarm of robots to work.

It is unlikely — and was then illegal — that the slave knows how to read at all, or that the white would use a vocabulary highfalutin enough to confuse and anger adversaries (and draw cackles from the film audience).