(superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.
(superl.) Fig.: Elevated in character, rank, dignity, spirit, bearing, language, etc.; exalted; noble; stately; characterized by pride; haughty.
Example Sentences:
(1) An Israeli commentator said of the first of them: "when one looks through all the lofty phraseology, all the deliberate disinformation, the hundreds of pettifogging sections, sub-sections, appendices and protocols, one clearly recognises that the Israeli victory was absolute and Palestine defeat abject."
(2) They orginally had lofty ambitions of talking about the economy but since they have lost that argument so catastrophically, they have reached for the Ukip playbook to create fictitious stories to scare people about immigrants and release video nasties about Turkish people”.
(3) "The BBC's bosses dropped the lofty Oxbridge langour that had been their trademark to set off in hot pursuit of our children," he said.
(4) Progressive politicians should be very careful not to be lofty and metropolitan about this, it's a totally understandable reflex."
(5) David Zaslav, chief executive of the US cable giant, kept his cards close to his chest on the Channel 5 sale process, where Discovery is considered to be a frontrunner among buyers offering much less than Desmond's lofty £700m-plus target.
(6) In Albini’s view, these plans may prove lofty but misdirected.
(7) His church is looked down upon by a lofty bronze of Jefferson Davis, last president of the confederacy, white supremacist and owner of 100 slaves.
(8) Podemos' lofty list of election promises includes doing away with tax havens, establishing a guaranteed minimum income and lowering the retirement age to 60.
(9) According to Shannon Loftis, general manager of Microsoft Studios, the idea of producing one game disc that will service a range of platform capabilities is familiar to dev teams.
(10) By his own lofty standards Cavendish's return of two stage wins from this year's Tour has been paltry and myriad signs of hitherto unseen fallibility, a team that is clearly not good enough to work in his service and suggestions that his star is on the wane will leave him with much to ponder.
(11) It is the most homespun of arrangements for a team with such lofty ambitions, but somehow it will be a fitting send-off in a city that has embraced the idea from the start, with Major Buddy Dyer being one of their most fervent supporters, and some 20,000 showing up for the championship game against Charlotte last September .
(12) Caruso St John, which previously renovated London's Tate Britain and the Gagosian Paris, plans to convert the old theatre production warehouses into a series of lofty rooms.
(13) The game’s been inspired by head-cam footage of drivers and athletes uploaded to YouTube and offers the rather lofty promise of allowing players to “go anywhere and make any experience that they want”.
(14) To me this is … ” Once again Johnson feels the need to apologise for something lofty he is about to say.
(15) In a world where public figures are lofty and removed from ordinary people, she looks accessible, approachable and touchable.
(16) In fact, wet deposition has long been hailed as a possible solution by higher powers, with their lofty pretensions to control the elements.
(17) But beyond these very lofty ideals, a staff nurse managed financial management committee can make the nurse manager's life much easier.
(18) Many social events leave me with a crick in the neck from gazing up at the ceiling to talk to lofty friends.
(19) However, geopolitical, socioeconomical, and medical factors contributed to an increased TB incidence altering this lofty hope.
(20) Many of its institutions entered the new millennium accused of social elitism and lofty irrelevance.
Stature
Definition:
(n.) The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.
Example Sentences:
(1) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(2) Roger Madelin, the chief executive of the developers Argent, which consulted the prince's aides on the £2bn plan to regenerate 27 hectares (67 acres) of disused rail land at Kings Cross in London, said the prince now has a similar stature as a consultee as statutory bodies including English Heritage, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and professional bodies including Riba and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
(3) After all, he reminds us, the Smiths can take no credit for the place, having only been born and brought up there, not responsible for its size and stature.
(4) The affected family members had normal stature, normal occipitofrontal circumference, and no other medical problems.
(5) The data required are recumbent length, nude weight, midparent stature, and hand-wrist skeletal age.
(6) Although children with constitutional delay of growth are believed to have no medical or endocrine abnormality to explain their short stature, some controversy regarding their growth hormone secretory status has recently surfaced; some authors have reported low growth hormone levels to provocative stimuli and decreased growth hormone secretion during sleep, as well as low somatomedin C values in some children with constitutional delay of growth.
(7) Short stature is an additional feature of this autosomal dominant condition.
(8) We suggest that the finding of short stature in patients with 46,XX pure gonadal dysgenesis should not be attributed to the syndrome, but rather requires investigation for possible growth hormone deficiency.
(9) We describe the concurrence of severe distal osteolysis, mental retardation, short stature, and characteristic facial appearance with maxillary hypoplasia and relative exophthalmos in two adult sibs, a 57-year-old woman and her deceased brother.
(10) The values found for stature and osseous development were low in the group small for gestational age and for twins.
(11) The distributions of statures at each age, the distributions of ages attaining special characteristics of growth, and the distribution of growth increments after the onset of adolescence have been included.
(12) We measured 695 sera obtained in short stature children (GH deficiency or normal GH secretory) and adults (normal, hypopituitarism or acromegaly).
(13) We measured growth hormone-binding activity in plasma from 20 pygmies and 12 control subjects (7 white Americans and 5 non-Pygmy black Africans of normal stature).
(14) We report on a 7-year-aged girl with severe mental and physical retardation, short stature and malformations of the face and limbs.
(15) The same hypothesis has been suggested previously, but we cannot support the view of short stature as a common condition in AN patients premorbidly.
(16) This article reviews the major clinical and physiologic abnormalities that can occur and places special emphasis on the problems of short stature and gonadal failure.
(17) When comparing different populations independently of ethnic specificities, a number of modifying factors have to be taken into account which significantly influence the birth weight, namely: parity, spacing, age and stature of the mother.
(18) Characteristic coarse facial features and shortness of stature were observed in all cases.
(19) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
(20) Three sibs, a boy and two girls, born to Moroccan consanguineous parents, were affected with a syndrome characterized by brittle hair, mental retardation, short stature, ataxia, and gonadal dysfunction.