Words similar to high-flown

Example sentences for: high-flown

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The more high-flown critics are flush with Schadenfreude at what they see as director George Lucas' fall from glory.
Worse, he's very big on language humor, on purposely mismatching tone and topic and veering abruptly between high-flown rhetoric and scatological bluntness.
The German critic Hans Magnus Enzensberger has written of how Grass ranges with masterly skill from high-flown parodies of Catholic litany to the impersonal tone of case histories to slang to dialect and so on.
Colloquial means nothing more than `used in colloquy, or conversation' and is thus no more than a high-flown term for conversational , which, as far as I know, carries no stigma.
The word was originally a theatrical term for a showy trick or patch of high-flown, grandiose language that actors would use to attract (`trap') applause (`claps') from their audiences.