High-sounding used in a sentence

High-sounding in a sentence as an adjective

People used to be impressed by high-sounding prose.

Yet we have high-sounding words in law, about rights and pursuing happiness.

Fair enough; worth pointing out, in its context; but it's a pretty good example of a subject that doesn't demand "high-sounding words".

In a large company, the smarter but quiet and submissive employee will lose out to the obnoxious, high-sounding more social one.

There are still things in this world which are true and things which are false; acts which are right and acts which are wrong, even if there are statesmen who hide their designs under the cloak of high-sounding phrases.”.

Here, then, is Webster’s definition: “An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used, above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast.” Do you see the difference?

In -- for instance -- a religious ritual, a national celebration, or a musical performance, high-sounding words might be appropriate even for rather unexciting thoughts.

Look at the definition for fustian, Webster's "An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used, above the dignity of the thoughts or subject" is actually simpler than invoking a term such as 'pretentious'.

All the high-sounding ideas about making arguments by offering to buy ignores the fact that this wasn't a market deal: small shareholders were compelled to sell whether they wanted to or not, and the board had a fiduciary interest to them.

In what hierarchy of value or complexity or whatever it is that "simply" indicates a lack of does getting efficiently from A to B rank above a "rite of oneness" with the terrain in between?Furthermore, let's return to Webster's definition of "fustian", which he defines as "a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used, above the dignity of the thoughts or subject".

"these pages revealed the power of words to us as though for the first time""The book revealed to me a whole frightening world""The alchemists really believed that the Emerald Tablet revealed truths too powerful for most people to handle""Aside from the joke, the letter revealed his youthful trait of uttering labored, high-sounding but unsubstantial phrases"But why exactly are you fixated on the idea that written things can't act, while apparently pretty much any other abstract or inanimate object can?