Sentences with phrase «less highfalutin»

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.

Not exact matches

If we wanted a highfalutin theory as to why the League Cup semifinals, we might suggest that the trappings — nighttime knockout football under lights — combine with the unusual significance — huge because it's a semifinal, but less than even a straightforward league game since it's only the third cup — to create an occasion that sits slightly outside the normal flow of the season.

They could care less if I volunteer for class trips or earn six figures at some highfalutin job (which I never quite did).