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2, His high-flown style just sounds absurd today.

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4, And Jack, her husband, had had some high-flown notion of dedicating the lad to the cause.

5, Such a description might sound high-flown for a small, transitory occasion.

6, Bozo indulged in the most high-flown speculations.

7, High-flown and amazing will come in due time.

8, He has some high-flown scheme for heating his whole house using solar power.

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10, Don't be scared of high-flown language ofeconomists and Cabinet Ministers.

11, His method was always the same: using high-flown rhetoric and obscure language while dissembling and faking his way through life.

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13, Besides, none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes.

14, I should know by now that heavy drinkers are awfully fond of high-flown rationalisations for any brief spell of abstinence.

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17, These later, more worldly writings better suit our modern taste—more concrete, less high-flown.

18, It is highly probable that many of the Service's personnel were put off by such high-flown rhetoric.

19, It needs to be something well beyond where you are now, but not so high-flown and amazing that you secretly believe it's impossible for you.