(1) Oh, but now this is highfalutin identity politics to be sneered at along with your safe spaces and trigger warnings.
(2) As if to prove she had not abandoned US television entirely in favour of the highfalutin' and literary, she took a recurring role as Hannibal Lecter's psychiatrist in the current TV series Hannibal .
(3) And are violations of the rule obvious products of mishearing, careless reading, or a chintzy attempt to sound highfalutin?
(4) Such comparisons seem a bit highfalutin for what is ultimately a teen-friendly action flick, but Lawrence insists that real-world analogies are legitimate.
(5) In what Politico described as a “brutal” indictment last week, the paper’s editorial board – considered a must-read for the very kind of conservative voters and donors Romney would seek – expressed precisely the same denigrating assessment of Romney as Murdoch’s tweet did, albeit in more highfalutin language.
(6) This highfalutin pudding really does live up to its name.
(7) Not the highfalutin Royal Albert Hall, live-on-BBC-telly event.
(8) He once earned a famous reproach for writing too highfalutin a match report of a game between Chelsea and Blackpool, evoking Greek tragedy and, specifically, the blinding of Oedipus ("Will you tell me one thing?"
(9) I know that sounds awfully highfalutin and philosophical, but it's precisely what the healthcare debate, both the current and historic versions, has been about.
(10) "The thing that everybody always theorises is, why did you recommend such a highfalutin-type system for the WCML?
(11) Major's "back to basics" campaign was against highfalutin ideology; a disavowal of politics.
(12) Even – if the word is not taboo in their highfalutin circles – a hit.
(13) School architecture is just more highfalutin liberal claptrap, governors are " local worthies seeking a badge of status and the chance to waffle about faddy issues ", the national curriculum is a ball and chain, and teachers are part of a leftwing conspiracy.
Important
Definition:
(v. t.) Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious.
(v. t.) Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty.
(v. t.) Bearing on; forcible; driving.
(v. t.) Importunate; pressing; urgent.
Example Sentences:
(1) CT appears to yield important diagnostic contribution to preoperative staging.
(2) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(3) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(4) Glucocorticoids have numerous effects some of which are permissive; steroids are thus important not only for what they do, but also for what they permit or enable other hormones and signal molecules to do.
(5) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
(6) IgE-mediated acute systemic reactions to penicillin continue to be an important clinical problem.
(7) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
(8) gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glutamate release from the treated side was higher than the control value during the first 2-3 h, a result indicating an important role of glial cells in the inactivation of released transmitter.
(9) Under blood preservation conditions the difference of the rates of ATP-production and -consumption is the most important factor for a high ATP-level over long periods.
(10) This finding is of major importance for persons treated with diltiazem who engage in sport.
(11) Despite of the increasing diagnostic importance of the direct determination of the parathormone which is at first available only in special institutions in these cases methodical problems play a less important part than the still not infrequent appearing misunderstanding of the adequate basic disease.
(12) Because of the dearth of epidemiological clues as to causation, studies with experimental animal models assume greater importance.
(13) The severity and site of hypertrophy is important in determining the clinical picture and the natural history of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM).
(14) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(15) Nutritional factors or environmental toxins have important effects on CNS degenerative changes.
(16) Moreover, homozygous deletion of the FMS gene may be an important event in the genesis of the MDS variant 5q- syndrome.
(17) Importantly, these characteristics were strong predictors of subsequent mortality.
(18) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(19) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(20) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.