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.