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Example sentences for: lofty

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Too young to remember the ordinary clothes of the previous era, they regarded huge bustles, sweeping trains, lofty coiffures, and tightly laced waists with a ferocious derision born of dread.
The island’s repeated suffering was duly celebrated in the popular heroic Songs of Dighenis (adapted from their medieval origins for the modern struggle), Pandelis Prevelakis’ grim novel, The Cretan, and the lofty writings of Níkos Kazantzákis.
On a less lofty plane, it does seem a bit unfair that the Times gets to cover itself with glory over exposing Wen Ho Lee when the Wall Street Journal ran a piece on page A3 (for breaking news, its version of "page 1") by Carla Anne Robbins conveying essentially the same information on Jan.
Yet its lofty stock price assumes continued growth.
Is it at all possible “to balance the lofty beauty of the heavily nuanced text with an easily understood English”?