Edwards is the patrician leader with the high-flown rhetoric about adventure and destiny.

You just spouted lots of high-flown rhetoric as to how Si Cwan deserved better.

But the president's high-flown rhetoric about freedom and democracy and the nobility of the American mission in the world is sounding very hollow these days.

He had always found history, with its dispassionate approach, a more reliable guide to the conduct of affairs than the orators' high-flown rhetoric.

I hope to avoid any more high-flown rhetoric about a Europe of values while our leaders refuse to act.

The substance of those agreements, regrettably, does not match up to the high-flown rhetoric which the Council President employs.

It was even worse than the other things he had found himself saying in response to Shar-Lon's high-flown rhetoric.

This concrete program, not high-flown rhetoric, can change the meaning of security in Europe.

But there's no high-flown rhetoric here; rather, the reader experiences a quiet, steady marshaling of fact and argument.

Instead he uses high-flown rhetoric to shout her down, barely noticing Albany's arrival.