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
  • And where are all those high-minded young people for whom ideals are everything.
    Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
  • It’s even become the norm among high-minded watch technicians.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 24 June 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
  • 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
  • There’s potential for a real critique, which applies to both trashy true-crime and more high-minded investigations.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • The fact that Trump’s motives may be political rather than high-minded does not change the basic fact that the Senate deal would be a disaster that camouflages Biden’s dereliction of duty.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Others demonstrating outside the courthouse were less high-minded in their commentary.
    Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Yet beneath such high-minded rhetoric, American brands pushed for greater access to China for the simple reason that its factories could turn out goods more cheaply than anywhere else.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • But Newsom’s pledge seemed less high-minded and noble than impulsive and calculated.
    Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Bringing people together in high-minded community is the task of folk music.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • So, if America’s hunk of a quarterback moves into the Crash zone, then we taste-makers, influences and high-minded watch collectors will exit with our noses upturned at the stench of low-brow culture.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 July 2024
  • Her early diet of movies and television was varied, from TV strongmen to adult animation, and a generous dose of some more high-minded offerings.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2024

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