It was a budget cloaked in high-flown phrases and principles, but which was not a terribly principled affair.

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They are more infuriated than men by the gap between high-flown rhetoric and the prosaic facts on the ground.

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Among politicians, there is the idealism of high-flown speechmaking, in which crowds are stirringly summoned to support great things.

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How do you make Shakespeare's plays more easily accessible to potentially interested people who feel intimidated by their high seriousness and high-flown rhetoric?

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Incorporating theoretical physics and high-flown musicology into a multigenerational saga, he brings us the story of the Strom family gifted, racially mixed, and, inevitably, totally mixed-up.

ECONOMIST: When writing fiction, brains are not everything

And the French, though still fond of high-flown Euro-rhetoric, have become increasingly wary of the commission, since they no longer regard it as their creature.

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Benjamin Black might be taken as evidence of authorial capitulation: high-flown style gives way to that most trustworthy and workmanlike of plots, the detective trail.

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That said, the 2% by volume that goes by air accounts for around 35% of the value: light, expensive goods such as high-end electronic components tend to be flown.

ECONOMIST: The effect on business and leisure

It can acquire high-resolution data, especially in the steeply sloping coastal areas, where the radar altimeters flown on many other Earth observation satellites struggle to see important details.

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