high-mindedness

• “In a telling example of incompetence masquerading as high-mindedness, Donilon led the charge in challenging whether it was possible to work with Hamid Karzai.”

  The Huffington Post: Stephen Yates and Christian Whiton: Obama's Mini-Me

• “All that red, white and blue packaging, all that faux-Copland theme music, all that moderator gravitas - they're just cues to prompt our civic high-mindedness, enabling us to pretend we're doing something more consequential than enjoying an infotainment freakshow.”

  The Huffington Post: Marty Kaplan: Keeping Up With the Kandidates

• “It was a reaction to "the triumph of nothingness", the modernist architecture which had, by the 1960s, become the official style of the establishment in both capitalist and socialist countries, a dogmatic, high church willing to compromise with business, which reached a new low when Walter Gropius, the high priest of modernist high-mindedness, designed the Playboy Club in London.”

  The Guardian: PoMo power: the return of postmodernism

• “But I think Daschle has long proved himself an inept hack good at nothing but projecting an image of high-mindedness.”

  Matthew Yglesias » The Daschle Problem

• “Indeed, Estrada appears to be almost obsessed with playing out his high-mindedness at the cost of a more broadly and responsibly considered review (of Kagan).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Miguel Estrada Writes in Support of Elena Kagan’s Confirmation

• “Over the last 235 years we have seen American utopianism and spiritual high-mindedness replaced by a culture of overeating, overspending, and over-wanting.”

  The Huffington Post: Arthur Rosenfeld: Deeper Lessons of the Debt Crisis

• “In addition to the high-mindedness, he also knows searching for ET can be popular, can engage the public if done with the right pizzazz.”

  Simon & Schuster: First Contact

• “I had never been in the presence of such high-mindedness before.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Queens-Born Poet Returns

• “David Brooks, ever flailing to dress up his own loyalties to a sick political movement in the language of "character" and intellectual high-mindedness, has written a truly extraordinary column today -- The Tree of Failure -- to explain the lack of political civility in America today.”

  The Huffington Post: Jonathan Weiler: David Brooks' Extraordinary Blindspot

• “Even a kind of literary high-mindedness has developed around this new dialect.”

  The Huffington Post: Claire Gordon: Txtspk 4eva

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