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Adjective(1) affectedly genteel(2) pompous

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(1) What all this highfalutin molecular biology should teach us is that we can't just throw up our hands and say: u2018His genes made him do it.u2019(2) I don't want to sound highfalutin , but the idea for that came to me from a play I'd seen at the old Vic under Jonathan Miller.(3) The man has a talent for spewing highfalutin drivel (mainly in print), and it can taint his otherwise engaging records.(4) The phrase may seem at first highfalutin , but it accurately describes the phenomenon, and the phenomenon itself is not a rare thing.(5) There's no surer way for a writer to make herself look stupid than to employ a highfalutin phrase incorrectly.(6) While some of his ideas might be highfalutin , you would never know it, because the dialogue sounds real and fresh.(7) But whatever highfalutin label you put on Terkel's technique, it boils down to his ability to relate to people and get them to open up and talk frankly about their lives.(8) I could offer more highfalutin reasons as well.(9) Another way the film startles is its highfalutin talk about prime numbers, chaos theory and French post-impressionist painters.(10) They persuasively argue that in all the generalized and sometimes highfalutin talk about globalization, the central role that women play in the massive migrations that define and sustain the new economy has been ignored.(11) Mostly by implication, the film takes on education and upward mobility; the meaning of competition; our deep ambivalence about highfalutin language; and, of course, the cult of the precocious child.(12) Whatever theme Jones claims to explore in his highfalutin program note, the actual choreography lacks depth, structure, musicality - rigor of any kind, really.(13) Recently, we've seen people start to fret about the looming attention crisis, which is a highfalutin way of saying they're becoming overwhelmed by the number of blogs in their RSS feeds.(14) Although it is all highfalutin balderdash, a semblance of sense does surface here and there - for example, in the scenery and the cast of characters.(15) It's kinda less highfalutin than the books I've just finished.(16) On prior evenings I had found that the most highfalutin dishes succeed the least.