Romney was characterizing his opponent as Olympian, highfalutin and out of touch with reality.
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Fancy enough that some people in KC knock Jack Stack for being too highfalutin.
There is a frequent crunching of gears as Mr Stubbs shifts between a conversational and a more highfalutin' register.
Partly it is a question of style: most congressmen tolerate, rather than warm to, Mr Zoellick's self-confident intellectualism and highfalutin ideas.
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There was no need for out-right repeal, highfalutin judicial doctrines, multi-pronged tests, emanations and penumbras, over-reaching legislation or regulations to expunge these two amendments.
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Without trying to sound too highfalutin about it, because it is a wholly unmastered and slippery thing: Some learning vacations are all about opening up to new questions.
And the nuclear deal, an example of the sort of highfalutin foreign policy that bothers only a few high-powered ministers, journalists and others in India, may not matter much.
The externality argument is in many respects just a highfalutin way of expressing revulsion that anyone should be so profane as to attempt to measure the returns on something as ineffable as education.
Aside from all the highfalutin sites and lectures, two things I remember from that experience was that Amstel Light seemed to be the beer of choice, and American rock and roll was the background music.
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Recapturing 15th-century Florence, not to mention the highfalutin exploits of da Vinci, demands impressive visual effects, and Goyer set the bar high: "My goal was to be at least on par with the production values of 'Game of Thrones, '" he says.
Johnny Depp plays Barnabas Collins, who is cursed, laid to rest for two hundred years, then sprung from his coffin in 1972 the cue for a stream of period gags, as the highfalutin vampire with the lordly turn of phrase gets stuck in the era of the lava lamp.
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