How to Use high-minded in a Sentence

high-minded

adjective
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  • On the more high-minded Douban, the rating was a lowly 5.8.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Santos has high-minded aims for himself, and the team at-large.
    — The Enquirer, 21 Feb. 2023
  • And where are all those high-minded young people for whom ideals are everything.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
  • It’s even become the norm among high-minded watch technicians.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 24 June 2024
  • But for all the high-minded idealism, OpenAI has also had its share of scandals.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 22 May 2024
  • Aquarius: Kelly says the high-minded Aquarius will find its match in an Aries or Sagittarius.
    — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Your urge to acquire knowledge is growing as the Moon alights in your high-minded 9th house, giving you a thirst for something new and exotic.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2024
  • And a country that doesn’t see itself as a beacon will care less about acting high-minded toward others.
    — Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • Most are not the high-minded, American-democracy-would-cease-to-exist-if-not-for-my-favorite-amendment kind of laws.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Amid the high-minded feminist articles, the pages are a spectacle of schlongs, and the series delivered all of it with a wink.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • In fact, all that high-minded thinking sounds more like how some bloodless and very smart computer might happily spend the livelong day.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • But a high-minded treatise on social injustice this isn’t.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 July 2023
  • Mia’s report is a pitch-perfect clone of a tacky, exploitative news story masquerading as something more earnest and high-minded.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
  • In the Troisgros kitchen, great food is a matter of craft, history, and dedication to an ideal, all of which may sound tediously high-minded, but which, in this movie, turns out to be thrilling.
    — David Denby, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
  • These are high-minded visionaries, beating to their own drums, says Valerie Mesa, an astrologer and soul coach based in Miami.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 27 Feb. 2023
  • But in other theaters, the high-minded Normandy vision has given way to a different kind of diplomacy.
    — Massimo Calabresi / Washington, TIME, 4 June 2024
  • Because Jesus and his high-minded teachings have demanded too much from humankind.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Yet even the most high-minded forms still include a surprising amount of straw-manning and motivated reasoning.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Other times, however, wartime tax resistance has been less high-minded.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The younger ensemble members seem to have wandered in from a 21st century culture unimaginable to the play’s high-minded patriarch.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • The collision of high-minded leftism, Park Avenue wealth, and Black radical politics was irresistible as a subject for Wolfe to mock.
    — Christopher Bonanos, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
  • There was some high-minded talk about the alliance but also much foreboding about the political future of its critical member, the United States.
    — David Ignatius, Washington Post, 9 July 2024
  • There’s potential for a real critique, which applies to both trashy true-crime and more high-minded investigations.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • The fact that Trump’s motives may be political rather than high-minded does not change the basic fact that the Senate deal would be a disaster that camouflages Biden’s dereliction of duty.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Others demonstrating outside the courthouse were less high-minded in their commentary.
    — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Yet beneath such high-minded rhetoric, American brands pushed for greater access to China for the simple reason that its factories could turn out goods more cheaply than anywhere else.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But Newsom’s pledge seemed less high-minded and noble than impulsive and calculated.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Bringing people together in high-minded community is the task of folk music.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • While the administration has dressed up its order in high-minded terms, the change is blatantly protectionist.
    — Iain Murray, National Review, 27 Sep. 2024
  • So, if America’s hunk of a quarterback moves into the Crash zone, then we taste-makers, influences and high-minded watch collectors will exit with our noses upturned at the stench of low-brow culture.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 July 2024

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