How to Use high-minded in a Sentence

high-minded

adjective

• This rhetoric may sound high-minded, but—not surprisingly—Altman’s position is also somewhat self-interested.
  — Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Guests that can be at times controversial or somewhat high-minded or really reflective, right?
  — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024