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Definition of high-sounding in English: high-soundingadjective (of language or ideas) extravagant and grand. Example sentencesExamples - Despite their high-sounding rhetoric, however, initial reforms were halting, and throughout the 1990s Ukraine endured severe stagnation.
- But what do these things mean for the pursuit of knowledge and the development of intellect - high-sounding phrases which were once seen as the primary purpose of higher education?
- Hurwitz came onstage and spouted high-sounding phrases for 45 minutes.
- The lack of adequate funding for the high-sounding aims proclaimed by the legislation has provoked opposition from the cash-strapped state governments that must implement the so-called reforms.
- By this time the beliefs were given even more high-sounding names such as ideals, freedom, conscience, God, country, sacred path.
- This high-sounding rhetoric is all well and good as theory, but it goes only so far in the real world, as other passing novelists point out.
- Apart from a few high-sounding and hollow phrases in the election manifesto, they have moved even further to the right.
- Some definitions were more high-sounding than accurate.
- Government broadcasting policy has always been surrounded by high-sounding rhetoric, but the need to ensure financial viability while filling the programming needs of a voracious medium has always been the basic driver of TV practice.
- The problem with uttering such high-sounding rubbish is that a thousand - no, a million - fools can always be found to believe it.
- With the curtain about to go up on the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún, there will be plenty of high-sounding statements calling for a successful outcome.
- Instead, his speech to the UN assembly was full of high-sounding generalities and evasions.
- Our leaders have at last realised that the voter expects more than high-sounding speeches and slogans.
- For beneath the high-sounding arguments lurks a far more sordid reality.
- Sure, again and again, I betrayed my own high-sounding calls for social justice and economic fairness.
- Mankind to-day has had more than enough of high-sounding principles and beautiful declarations.
- Too often, they were simply bantered around as high-sounding slogans.
- They make a rather high-sounding statement about principles underlying care and security, but in reality they want to achieve the same thing, to keep this problem under control, to keep the problem out of sight, out of mind.
- Divested of their high-sounding platitudes, these programs were intended to train the nation's future leaders.
- This hall has heard enough high-sounding declarations to last us for some decades to come.
Synonyms grand-sounding, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, extravagant, exaggerated, elaborate, flowery, florid, ornate, overblown, overripe, overdone, overwrought, grandiose, lofty, rhetorical, oratorical verbose, inflated, affected, pretentious, turgid, bombastic, declamatory informal windy, purple, highfalutin, la-di-da rare fustian, euphuistic, orotund, tumid
Definition of high-sounding in US English: high-soundingadjectiveˈhaɪ ˈˌsaʊndɪŋˈhī ˈˌsoundiNG (of language or ideas) extravagant and lofty. Example sentencesExamples - Sure, again and again, I betrayed my own high-sounding calls for social justice and economic fairness.
- By this time the beliefs were given even more high-sounding names such as ideals, freedom, conscience, God, country, sacred path.
- This high-sounding rhetoric is all well and good as theory, but it goes only so far in the real world, as other passing novelists point out.
- Mankind to-day has had more than enough of high-sounding principles and beautiful declarations.
- The lack of adequate funding for the high-sounding aims proclaimed by the legislation has provoked opposition from the cash-strapped state governments that must implement the so-called reforms.
- The problem with uttering such high-sounding rubbish is that a thousand - no, a million - fools can always be found to believe it.
- Divested of their high-sounding platitudes, these programs were intended to train the nation's future leaders.
- Too often, they were simply bantered around as high-sounding slogans.
- Our leaders have at last realised that the voter expects more than high-sounding speeches and slogans.
- This hall has heard enough high-sounding declarations to last us for some decades to come.
- Despite their high-sounding rhetoric, however, initial reforms were halting, and throughout the 1990s Ukraine endured severe stagnation.
- Some definitions were more high-sounding than accurate.
- Hurwitz came onstage and spouted high-sounding phrases for 45 minutes.
- Instead, his speech to the UN assembly was full of high-sounding generalities and evasions.
- They make a rather high-sounding statement about principles underlying care and security, but in reality they want to achieve the same thing, to keep this problem under control, to keep the problem out of sight, out of mind.
- For beneath the high-sounding arguments lurks a far more sordid reality.
- But what do these things mean for the pursuit of knowledge and the development of intellect - high-sounding phrases which were once seen as the primary purpose of higher education?
- Government broadcasting policy has always been surrounded by high-sounding rhetoric, but the need to ensure financial viability while filling the programming needs of a voracious medium has always been the basic driver of TV practice.
- With the curtain about to go up on the WTO Ministerial Conference in Cancún, there will be plenty of high-sounding statements calling for a successful outcome.
- Apart from a few high-sounding and hollow phrases in the election manifesto, they have moved even further to the right.
Synonyms grand-sounding, grandiloquent, magniloquent, high-flown, extravagant, exaggerated, elaborate, flowery, florid, ornate, overblown, overripe, overdone, overwrought, grandiose, lofty, rhetorical, oratorical
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