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Перевод: lofty
[прилагательное] очень высокий; возвышенный; выспренний; высокий; величественный; высокомерный; надменный; горделивый
Тезаурус:
- It's this fall, this unseating of our lofty conception of ourselves (as conscious, self-determining spirits) that Butthole Surfers love to induce: hence the fascination with surgery (exposing the meat and muck out of which we're made), with lapses into the unreason of psychosis or perversion.
- Getting lofty ideas?
- The planning principle of converting the barrack-like main blocks of these buildings into flats has been the exploitation of the 4.2m (14ft) standard height of each classroom by siting a mezzanine "sleeping gallery" on the internally located kitchenette/bathroom areas, overlooking a "double-height" living-room which is lit by the large and lofty classroom windows.
- The peacock-shaped hedges stared impassively into the distance, seeming to lift their beaks higher in lofty disdain.
- Mergers, if they come, will not embody lofty dreams of expansion.
- At the age of 29, Durie must be wondering how much longer she has left to get hooked on that habit which she toyed with briefly six years ago when she reached the lofty heights of the world's top five.
- Mallerstang is one of the quietest of the Pennine valleys, unfrequented by tourists and free from heavy traffic: it is a pleasant ribbon of green deepset between lofty heights, sparsely populated and always giving the impression of rural contentment and a way of life that remains as unchanged as the landscape.
- "Tweed has vanished off the face of the earth," Buckmaster informed his subordinate in his lofty voice.
- Ben Lawers looks very far away from here, possibly because it is in fact very far away from here, but the walking on this lofty green ridge is so agreeable that the distance still to cover becomes an irrelevance.
- Hence, over this section, it was not necessary to remove the existing ceiling, but a desire to emphasise the still lofty volume of this room caused the client to request the insertion of a "minstrel's gallery" upper level over part of this area.
- He was deternined to use the dramatic location and its views to make a powerful memorial rather than to build a lofty edifice that would dominate the skyline.
- The lofty idea that India could endure as a secular democracy of diverse peoples had come under open attack from the Hindu chauvinists of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- "It's not what happens to you, but how you cope with it, that's important," she told herself, as she tackled the cobwebs in the lofty rooms.
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