"language" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Between descriptions of butchery, the main characters thrash out positions and strategies in high-flown language that fails to mask the banality of their thinking.
- But at that point I began talking in high-flown language, and .
- Jonson consistently despises hypocrisy, especially religious hypocrisy that couches its damning judgments in high-flown language.
- They talk too much and use too high-flown language.
- The same bad schoolboy rhymes, the same semiliterate attempt at high-flown language.
- Be done with your high-flown language, Father Vidicon, and address me as an ordinary mortal, or we shall take forever in this chat!
- At the panel on "Poets and Politicians," a member of the audience objected to the high-flown language being used at the conference.
- You will think this all high-flown language, Clarke, but it is hard to be literal.
- It is written in the same high-flown language as Northern Memoirs.
- To his military gifts Lucas added a devotion to the king's cause, which he sometimes expressed in singularly high-flown and poetical language.
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