4 example sentences using high-flown.
High-flown used in a sentence
High-flown in a sentence as an adjective
That's a more high-flown version of what used to be called a "Java school": Pure job training, no theory, no concept of advancing the field.
A disappointing essay which barely mentions Chauteaubriand's writing and dismisses it in a few words as "high-flown and formal".
I know that I don't expect this, and my papers are no works of high-flown genius, just highly specialised and domain-specific so that even the people most interested in using the results probably won't be as interested in the techniques.
The paperclip stuff is a hackneyed cliché, old gray goo in new nanobottles, the sort of thing high-flown thinkers do when they want to explain the meat of their high-flown thinking to the intellectual hoi polloi, who can't be expected to get around genuine complexity.
High-flown definitions
pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution"
See also: high-sounding inflated
of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style; "an exalted ideal"; "argue in terms of high-flown ideals"- Oliver Franks; "a noble and lofty concept"; "a grand purpose"