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- successful play, one which Verdi scholar Julian Budden describes as "a high flown, sprawling melodrama flamboyantly defiant of the Aristotelian unities...
- Responding to negative reviews characterizing the cast's performances as "high-flown and jarringly incongruous," Michael Shindler of The American Conservative...
- Centurion is a six-seat, high-performance, retractable-gear, single-engined, high-wing general-aviation light aircraft. First flown in January 1957, it was...
- fanciful brand of Catholicism, a blend of mortification of the flesh, high-flown mysticism, and proselytism. In 1958, a musical adaptation was made by...
- Film Festival, Official Selection "Though its ideas are indeed heady and high-flown, they are presented in a way that's consistently engaging and accessible...
- The Monthly Film Bulletin commented, "A cliché-ridden script with much high-flown dialogue and the kind of flashy shooting one has come to expect from Michael...
- issues. Florida Governor Rick Scott ordered that flags at state buildings be flown at half-staff. Two days after the shooting, Trump and the first lady Melania...
- ground for su****ion, in reports of far-distant history. His style was high-flown and artificial, as was natural considering his early training, and he...
- name was Furius (or Cornelius) Alpinus. Bibaculus was ridiculed for his high-flown and exaggerated style and manner of expression. Fragments of his work...
- aforementioned theories is essential. Both are painfully inclined to reduce high-flown ideals, heroic attitudes, nobility of feeling, deep convictions, to some...