How to Use high-minded in a Sentence

high-minded

adjective
  • 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
  • From the start, then, his work was high-minded and cross-disciplinary.
    — Brandon Sanchez, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
  • So the letter’s high-minded tone will rankle, no doubt.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
  • But those awards joined wins for shows and performers who never had a shot with the more high-minded Emmys.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
  • But those awards joined wins for shows and performers who never had a shot with the more high-minded Emmys.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Whether your style leans casual or high-minded, these just-in dresses have all the makings of hero pieces.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 26 Feb. 2025
  • And where are all those high-minded young people for whom ideals are everything.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
  • That high-minded stupidity kind of vibe is huge for me.
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2025
  • It’s even become the norm among high-minded watch technicians.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 24 June 2024
  • The high-minded aims underlying the action have kept things churning, despite the flaws, for more than 230 years.
    — Wes Moss, Forbes, 29 Oct. 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
  • The biggest emotional gut punch comes not from anything that happens to Strings, but when Essie is predictably cast aside as yet another pawn in the crooner's game of high-minded self-absorption.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 21 Oct. 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

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