Example sentences for: high-mindedness

How can you use “high-mindedness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That's the question that Kubrick no doubt intended us to ask each other late into the night, just as we once endlessly pondered the meaning of the black monolith in 2001 . But 2001 was a mystery, and Eyes Wide Shut , for all its atmospheric high-mindedness, is just a muddle.

  • But high-mindedness only gets you so far.

  • Orgies of high-mindedness like the Volunteer Summit--four presidents, Colin Powell, the networks, celebrities, corporations, foundations, all huffing and puffing in Philadelphia--are a cheap target for knee-jerk iconoclasm.

  • True Crime gives you sleaze on toast--a heap of tabloid bathos, a dusting of high-mindedness, a dash of gallows humor.

  • If last week's theme was high dudgeon, this week's will be high-mindedness.


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