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.

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There is a frequent crunching of gears as Mr Stubbs shifts between a conversational and a more highfalutin' register.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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But it was highfalutin!

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