adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
goal
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Has Mr Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, set himself equally lofty goals ?
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The new unit will start business today with the lofty goal of $ 100 million in sales within five years.
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To that lofty goal , it can safely be assumed, Stormy Eaton would say amen.
height
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From their lofty height of existence, it was as if they could not even see him.
ideal
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Medieval kingship was an extraordinary mixture of harsh reality and lofty ideals .
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In fact, Jack Welch says,-Globalization is no longer a lofty ideal .
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All those lofty ideals and principled declarations had led to unprecedented carnage in the trenches.
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And one does expect more purity from people who invoke lofty ideals .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Burton always had a calm, lofty perspective on his work as an actor.
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But other destinations ride with the tide, piling on entertainment and sometimes loftier diversions.
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He glanced towards Rain but she took the lofty view that bribing security men was not her concern.
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In fact, Jack Welch says,-Globalization is no longer a lofty ideal.
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In less lofty circles, pay rises do not compensate for changes in other conditions at work.
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That lofty notion spread like a virulent germ into every law school in the nation.
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The vaulting is ribbed throughout, lofty and well-proportioned.
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With so lofty a title one might expect a similarly lofty agenda and goals.