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"high-minded" Definitions
  1. (of people or ideas) having strong moral principles

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For a moment, it all seemed like a high-minded exercise.
And Steyer allies aren't shy about making high-minded historical comparisons.
Smaller regions' motives for seeking independence are not always high-minded.
Williams still reads like his usual idealistic and high-minded self.
AND WE— I STAY HIGH MINDED WE FOCUSED ON THE FACTS.
Her manoeuvre transformed her image from reflexive partisan to high-minded independent.
On her side are less high-minded foes of Mr Cartes's scheme.
Such talks make grubby mercantilist horse-traders of even high-minded negotiators.
His administration's actions haven't always been as high-minded as his words.
Trump supports torture, and he does not understand high-minded political correctness.
Mr. Romney's speech was high-minded and flowing, quoting presidents and philosophers.
And what was the first fruit of this high-minded, optimistic project?
Those royals, at least, are decent role models, and high-minded celebrities.
It is tempting to find high-minded reasons to pass on gossip.
He said this with a high-minded contempt that I found confusing.
However high-minded the contents, the genesis of the collection was practical.
So, you can have these great high minded Nordic social democratic conversations.
Fighters work in their own self-interest, not for high-minded ideals.
But when you talk to people involved, they express more high-minded motivations.
Ms Dlamini-Zuma's speech focused on high-minded plans for education and agriculture.
Finch's—noble, high-minded, resistant to trouble and chaos—Harper Lee has, in
It's easy to to mock the accoutrement, the high-minded seriousness of intent.
Hollywood versions of watershed moments in American history are generally high-minded shlock.
The motive behind last week's directive was likely neither pure nor high-minded.
Elite universities, no matter how high-minded, have corporate souls and bottom lines.
How high-minded self-dealing paved the way for our low-minded president.
If the players considered themselves high-minded, Mr. Podhoretz scathingly suggested other motives.
We, the parent company of WeWork, is on a very high-minded mission.
But why are the high-minded concerns of liberal intellectuals given the shortest shrift?
And he has reinforced that reputation for scrupulousness by running a high-minded campaign.
Transparency is no longer a high-minded aim but the starting point for governance.
Is it the fate of the high-minded to be undone by low blows?
You can hear it in the highminded bombast of our country's founding documents.
The high-minded show was so resounding a flop that it was never recorded.
Thousands of other tokens were also designed to be used for high-minded purposes.
Ammons could be high-minded but he had few pretentious bones in his body.
Liberals can get so high-minded that they lose sight of the ground war.
This is true no matter how high-minded they are about opportunity and fairness.
McCullough admires the work of the Northwest Ordinance and of Ohio's high-minded settlers.
As a television drama, it often plays like a high-minded, dutiful educational video.
It would give him a rare chance to defend his administration as high-minded.
Another new journal, a high-minded quarterly called American Affairs, recently debuted in Manhattan.
Lawrence hated pornography; his views on sex were far too high-minded for Rosset.
It is a way of undermining the high-minded seriousness long associated with abstraction.
Alongside high-minded debate, a great nation's birth-pains included sectarian rage and political terror.
Some feel that the EU can only survive if it drops its high-minded ambitions.
But Ms. Wells is determined to convey high-minded self-possession along with inner turmoil.
Price was focused on high-minded, potentially award-winning content to lure users into Prime.
OK, but no one makes a high-minded crusade out of preventing handballs in soccer.
High-minded health policy experts understand this, as do major health systems across the country.
"He was very high-minded, very fast-thinking," Mr. Noonan said in a telephone interview.
Its ambitions are high-minded and grandly scaled; its attitude remains earnest, patient and craftsmanlike.
For years, Victoria's Secret and its catalogs sought to convey a high-minded British sensibility.
High-minded New York Times reporters, of course, are looking for stories of police corruption.
Although Mr Trump's complaints were not intended to start a high-minded debate, one is overdue.
They are high-minded and condescending and maybe just bored rich people having some violent fun.
In less high-minded places, voters and politicians may well snap their purses shut much sooner.
" He warned of candidates with "high-minded ideals, maybe honorable ideals, but little chance of winning.
For all of its high-minded aspirations, it's clear that Wintjes and Meursing are having fun.
The mission is draped in high-minded goals — addressing climate change, unclogging traffic and promoting exercise.
But in China, even the high-minded mission of promoting dialogue comes with its own challenges.
He often uses analogies and comparisons to more high-minded ideas to sell his insurance offering.
For once, Glover's high-minded ideas weren't self-consciously explained or worse, obscured with overeager punchlines.
The campus of Columbia University is dotted with monuments to illustrious alumni and high-minded ideals.
As high-minded Christians, both raised in rural societies shaped by slavery, they shared formative experiences.
Catalans, for instance, have built their movement around the high-minded ideals that supposedly guide secession.
These men make art not for any especially high-minded reasons but because they have to.
Despite all the high-minded rhetoric about the rule of law, this is politics, after all.
At the time, the high-minded anguish attributed to Abstract Expressionism had little appeal for her.
He watches Modi manipulating precisely those high-minded Hindu values that he, Taseer, has so admired.
I'm making Embrace of the Serpent sound more high-minded than it feels while watching it.
A movement of high-minded ideologues had, throughout the 1990s, become obsessed with deposing Saddam Hussein.
They also show the Clinton campaign at other times responding to more high-minded policy concerns.
Hopefully, this new film will retain some of the reboot's high-minded goals and run with them.
If you thought tonight's debate would be a high-minded conversation about pressing policy issues, think again.
When you put people's lives in danger, I don't care how high-minded you think you are.
Harriet is peevish and high-minded; she doesn't care for the "riverboat aesthetic" of a nearby McDonald's.
Clinton had of running a high-minded, policy-focused campaign have collided with a more visceral problem.
Such high-minded arguments can be a thin veil when attached to the journalism of exposed genitalia.
But Kasich refused to engage in the melee, positioning himself as the high-minded optimist on stage.
He knew baseball and did not make his play-calling or commentary into anything too high-minded.
"Rick and Morty," with its queasy blend of high-minded brutality and unusual kindness, is something new.
His message — that corporations needed to do more to assist refugees — broke through the high-minded rhetoric.
They claim that our high-minded ideals don't comport with the realities of politics on the ground.
The Prince Regent was known to have literary interests, if not necessarily of the high-minded sort.
She's also a prankster and a provocateur, a peddler of cheap gimmicks and high-minded performance art.
Others argue that the military needs of the moment outweigh any high-minded commitment to fiscal austerity.
" We called it "a high-minded excuse" to "eviscerate programs like Medicaid, Head Start and food stamps.
On a more high-minded level, Social Democrats say they want to lead the parliamentary opposition to Merkel.
But Comey's high-minded characterization of his "obligation" made that option seem perilous to senior Justice Department officials.
And the type of political rhetoric on display in The West Wing is noble, high-minded, and reasonable.
There's no charisma, no high-minded ideals and no genuine appeal in her scripted, phony and predictable campaign.
On the flip-side, sometimes we see bigotry defended with big words, pseudo-science and high-minded phrases.
Like every social platform, there is noise filled with high-minded discussions as well as seemingly mundane conversations.
Convinced that arresting images had more persuasive power than high-minded lectures, he put the accent on entertainment.
The high-minded, text-heavy, general-interest weekly often held itself aloof from news cycles and popular culture.
The reason he was so effective was precisely that he could be at once high-minded and underhanded.
Instead of safeguarding high-minded principles, the claims look personal, and more like something a king would do.
And for all their high-minded philosophizing, these books' geeky humor remains a big part of their appeal.
With few exceptions, this collection meets that (insane) standard; it's high-minded to the hilt, and rigorous, too.
This isn't just a matter of high-minded idealism; it's what separates great politicians from merely good ones.
If charity is giving alms to the needy, then philanthropy is charity's more high-minded and strategic relation.
But the high-minded elites fell for Holmes's scam, even the fake deep authoritative voice she put on.
If Ms. Warren is the progressive of high-minded policy, Bernie Sanders is the progressive of belligerent revolution.
Your options have never been clearer: dumb it down to cash in or stay high-minded and frugal.
Open town halls harken back to the high-minded civic (and civil) debates we imagine of our founding fathers.
That reflects high-minded worries over data security, but also low-minded hopes of hoovering up lost British contracts.
Formerly known as a high-minded conservative, Mr Rubio also mocked the Republican front-runner's hair and "orange" skin.
"The time for that nonsense has passed," he told voters on Monday, wrapping up a high-minded closing argument.
It is true that he is not a pacifist, but not for the high-minded reasons that he gives.
Lacey and Larkin will offer high-minded arguments in defense of what the public regards as low-value speech.
It doesn't sound high-minded when you say it, but it was saner than almost anything else on offer.
The coming months will likely bring more political wrangling and high-minded rhetoric over the nomination of his successor.
He does not ascribe to himself high-minded principles or present himself as the symbol of some vaulting philosophy.
There is something boldly unmodish about "The White Crow," staffed as it is by high-minded and unironic folk.
It is high-minded cultural criticism, concise, rhetorically agile, lit up by Douthat's love for the Roman Catholic Church.
A winner-take-all system within states can produce results counter to the majority for no high-minded reason.
Doctors were able to leverage a cultural perception of high-minded knowledge for an unusual degree of professional independence.
And even if they're only rarely a conduit to violence, they're always a path away from high-minded engagement.
Solving the problem of short-termism will require difficult structural change that goes well beyond high-minded public statements.
Both are seen as invocations of the divine, as high-minded tools to train your ears toward the heavens.
It sounds sophisticated and high-minded, and in practice, it lines up pretty well with defending the status quo.
I took this high-minded declaration as an indication that Mirza was privately educated—but I was wrong, obviously.
It interrupted the trans-Atlantic dominance of moody, high-minded Abstract Expression with an unmetaphysical art of the everyday world.
The high-minded folks at CBS Los Angeles have been kind enough to live-stream what's going at Mount Lee.
It mixes high-minded tech and entertainment industry speaking sessions with a long-running pair of music and film festivals.
The first time you wed your high-minded vision of what politics should be to a real candidate's perishable breath.
No one is for housing discrimination, and the goal of equalizing opportunity through this federal government overreach sounds high-minded.
Thankfully, there's plenty of high-minded sci-fi intrigue to go along with all the shocking violence, sexual and otherwise.
We believed we were morally intact — high-minded and right-thinking --and as such were proud to be called Americans.
While the initiative may just sound like the stuff of bougie dreams, there's a more high-minded reason behind it.
The craft beer "revolution" has given us the ability to get drunk while pretending we're doing something more high-minded.
Even companies that cast themselves as high-minded can have a detrimental impact on society, as Facebook's recent scandals illustrate.
" GRAHAM:"When you accuse the guy of running concentration camps you probably aren't going to get a high-minded response.
You've been getting a little high-minded of late, Libra, and you're at risk of alienating those closest to you.
As the company has reoriented toward a future in digital video, it has shed some of its high-minded projects.
Republican legislators sometimes bill the laws as high-minded protections of the separation of powers, but no one is fooled.
So conservatives have now cast aside their high-minded arguments of political principle, replacing them with dense discussions of policy.
He has never had any time for those of his peers who talk about fanciful ideals or high-minded philosophies.
The colorful scene at the midday gathering was a world away from the more serious and high-minded caucuses in Iowa.
As well as being a throwback, he is a harbinger of a new world of high-minded millennials and woke corporations.
Positivists believed that government by a high-minded "scientific" elite could bring about modern industrial societies without violence or class struggle.
Of course, all of these high-minded policy prescriptions also include the unspoken recommendation to spend more money on Lyft rides.
Clinton would deny that Sanders is so high-minded, complaining that the Sanders campaign has engaged in "artful smears" against her.
But he also felt that elite institutions must throw off their high-minded demeanor and become more inclusive in tangible ways.
In Clinton's view, she could never win with people who had been trained to regard her as a high-minded phony.
We can rule out high-minded vigilantism; one day Mike will become the heavy for a drug lord named Gus Fring.
Not so much the high-minded work of a whistleblower with a cause as a lurid rant of an ego untethered.
So any Democrats who hope to lead a high minded public policy seminar during the campaign live in a fool's paradise.
There is a perception that Steve Jobs and Apple were holdouts because of some principled, high-minded objection to larger phones.
Her debut, only a few months ago, was particularly nefarious and high-minded; it prepared me for a good battle today.
His recent communications contain more high-minded deliberation than hard discussion of the company's problems and how to deal with them.
The virtue of citizenship, to an individual, isn't just the high-minded idea of partaking in America as a civic project.
"The Front Runner" regards the spectacle of American democracy, which has often been messy, unfair and ridiculous, with high-minded disdain.
The president's greatest threat may not be from high-minded civic idealists, but a grifter whose shamelessness may exceed his own.
Dating back to "The Apprentice," he has long grasped that cultural loyalties can animate Americans far more than high-minded principles.
A deal along these lines would be a kind of unprincipled mess rather than a high-minded resolution of the immigration issue.
Space exploration was a relatively minor theme, but it added a classy, high-minded note to the entire affair, like napkin holders.
An excited focus on Mr Mattis and the rest's high-minded efforts to foil Mr Trump has tended to obscure this reality.
There was no high-minded rhetoric on January 10th, when the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, made his own speech in Cairo.
Some, like France, are so high-minded that they hold race to be irrelevant; in others racial censuses smell uncomfortably like fascism.
He purported to be more high-minded than his peers but pettily mocked Michelle Obama for urging schoolchildren to eat leafy greens.
If the Tannens were going to create a high-minded bedding company, they would have to do better than the status quo.
Paul Ryan, the speaker of the House, delivered a high-minded speech last week criticizing the tone of the Republican primary campaign.
More than anything, it betrays the fact that these big donors don't get involved for reasons of pure, high-minded civic virtue.
Most of the contrast that Ms. Warren drew early on with her rivals was more high-minded and process-oriented than visceral.
The speech even incorporated Obama's thematic touches — high-minded promises of a better future and cautions about the dangers of party disunity.
"As a television drama, it often plays like a high-minded, dutiful educational video," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
Behind all the high-minded ideals, he saw a colonial regime of appalling greed, violence and hypocrisy, and he left in despair.
Booker's shift also may reflect that a high-minded, above-the-fray approach simply won't cut it in an election like this.
Liat, a high-minded, educated woman of the left, sees the only solution as two states, fair but in the end separate.
For some reason, the Republicans have been far less vocal about their high-minded principles with Mr. Trump in the White House.
Art needs to be high-minded, as opposed to silly or sentimental, and take a position, even if by satire or irony.
You discover your high-minded ideals and commitment to your dreams aren't going to be enough to put food on the table.
Along with less high-minded lenders, it set aside hundreds of millions to cover claims of mis-selling payment-protection insurance for loans.
Hold onto his high-minded appeals for more cooperation between the political parties, for positive campaigns, for aid to those who are struggling.
True to their cause, the high-minded theorists of facile externality go out of their way to make their ideas hard to understand.
And like Mr Phillipson, Mr Norman peppers his high-minded discussion of Smith's work with details about the economist's day-to-day life.
As always, all you have to do to find the high-minded pop culture that doesn't feel like a chore: follow the teens.
Also, for the last couple of years, high-minded streetwear companies like Stampd, Kith, Palace and Supreme have released new pins each year.
Nathan Yau of the usually high-minded Flowing Data has turned his attention to records held in the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System.
I've no doubt that Johnson understands a crucial Star Wars balance—the calibration between goofy creature gags, starship melees, and high-minded fantasy.
It almost makes you wonder why, when Blue's long-term goals are so high-minded, it is pursuing a project so seemingly frivolous.
It's no surprise to see that Ván Records is releasing it, either—they fit perfectly into the label's high-minded, quality-obsessed catalogue.
The protests of the working classes—"no beer, no work"—went unheard amid the paternalistic zeal of high-minded (and often wealthy) Protestants.
In this world, Information has the high-minded mission to bring data to the people so that they can make an informed choice.
In that spirit I will take the high-minded policy side and ask you what you thought of Trump's big foreign-affairs speech.
"Motherless Brooklyn," a high-minded crime drama directed by Edward Norton, who played the lead and wrote the screenplay, was dead on arrival.
How can one square the Obama administration's cover-up of this injustice with President Obama's recent high-minded tweets about the Charlottesville incidents?
Investors who spoke with Business Insider were mixed on whether founders or venture capitalists would really be too high-minded about Saudi money.
Ms. Frishkey said she had read all about Penn Station — the original Penn Station, a temple to railroading and high-minded civic purpose.
We are also aware that despite your high-minded claims, you continued to live on the economic surplus harvested from their unpaid labor.
"There's more than a little corn and wishful thinking in the high-minded moments in 'The Post,'" Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
"The Comedian" stars Kumail Nanjiani as Samir, an ambitious comic who bores crowds into silence with his high-minded riffs on gun control.
Yes, we need a Republican who will do the most high-minded, patriotic thing I can imagine today — fall on the Trump grenade.
Free-market economists received financial support from business leaders who were more passionate about reducing tax and regulation than about high-minded research.
Like a medieval troubadour, he begins generating love poetry, thousands of haikus that combine longing with high-minded concern for his lady's virtue.
SK: I just think it's silly to pretend that Netflix has some high-minded perspective on reality because they also make prestige television.
Overlooking it all hung two portraits of Britain's high-minded 18983th-century Liberal prime minister, William Gladstone, staring down with a severe look.
I found the articles in my '65 Britannica mostly high quality and high minded, but the tone of breezy acumen could become imprecise.
Being well rested is important, but if you have a high-minded value system there is something even more crucial: looking well rested.
Chief executives began explicitly talking about their companies' "purpose" — not just in high-minded mission statements but in government filings and investor reports.
Some times it is done openly and shamelessly; other times, it plays like background music coloring what seems like more high-minded debate.
Maybe American campaigns would have to be even less high-minded by tailoring pitches to voters who aren't necessarily paying attention to substantive issues.
Yet we have a nostalgic sense that the Founders were these marble statues who wore powdered wigs and said high-minded things about government.
The perception that the left can function as a sign of high-minded exclusivity rather than a commitment to a cause is often correct.
So here's my (undoubtedly futile) plea that everyone abandon high-minded pretenses and admit that the principle animating this fight is will to power.
Both think the high-minded debate we are having over First Amendment protections for hate speech misunderstands the way white supremacist groups operate online.
Because lurking beneath the GOP's high-minded interest in the complex policy terrain of tax reform is a rather simple and more profound belief.
One night as I waited to be seated, I was parked at a table in the kitchen, under a collection of high-minded cookbooks.
Adaptogens are just as mysterious as CBD or the cryptocurrency Ethereum, and the high-minded promises driving their sales are similarly wild and overreaching.
These are high-minded ideals, reflecting the time they were laid down: the cold war was over and the West had plenty of money.
Those high minded goals persist as 21st-century researchers use proxemics in a smattering of disciplines that include everything from robot design to theater.
In the Hawaii case, Kennedy penned a brief and high-minded concurrence, epitomizing his approach to being a good judge and a good leader.
The use of the Counter-Terror teams in Kien Hoa also sometimes failed to conform to the high-minded principles that Mr. Chau preached.
Politics, he argues, did not gain massive popularity among the young because of the thrill of high-minded policy discussions and reasoned, wonkish debate.
Sentosa is not a typical venue for high-minded diplomacy, but the more you learn about the place, the more perfectly Trumpian it appears.
Both movies are sober, high-minded stories about the terrible things that men do to other men in the name of country and righteousness.
I suppose I was hoping to find in our nation's origin the shared ideals and high-minded political engagement so lacking in today's politics.
I went into working from home with the high-minded goal of achieving better balance between my ambition and my role as a mom.
Other methods were less high-minded: tales circulate of browbeating phone calls to Academy voters and sabotage campaigns against competing movies—tales Weinstein denies.
To battle these high-minded public servants, the President attacks them, suggests they are "human scum," his Republican supporters question their loyalty, insult them.
They stared for a moment, evidently reappraising their high-minded roommate as some kind of cokehead or very specialized deviant, before beating a retreat.
Weld lost, but the race became famous for a series of eight tough but high-minded debates that the two men staged across Massachusetts.
That is the irritating moment when high-minded Republicans take the floor and object to paying for the spending their votes have already authorized.
Republicans are currently trying to implement a somewhat weird mashup of early-Reagan supply-side tax cuts with late-Reagan high-minded tax reform.
Cory Booker and Kamala Harris It wasn't all high-minded interest in the rule of law and constitutional norms — although that clearly was at issue.
Nissan describes the Vmotion with high-minded designer language like "emotional geometry" and "gliding wing design theme," but my reaction is more basic than that.
" Her saucy act prompted a high-minded rebuke from one critic who sniffed, "Sheila E. wasn't any more inspiring than the dancers at adult theaters.
After launching with a lot of high-minded promises and ideas about the future of mobile communication, meaningful product development seems to have stalled out.
The same tools that are being used by activists and journalists for what they consider to be high-minded purposes can be used by others.
In briefings at his Pocantico Hills estate, he took an approach that mixed high-minded disdain with naïve optimism that the problem would resolve itself.
They speak in high-minded rhetoric rather than in Twitter insults, they're emasculated by parliaments and by the press, and maybe they're not very funny.
Over the years, Mattis became known for his supply of rousing epigrams—a kind of fighting man's Bartlett's, rich with high-minded incitements to violence.
Curry captures this sense of intimacy masterfully in the film by exposing both Le Guin's light-hearted humor and her more serious, high-minded idealism.
An optimistic, high-minded view of the situation is that the administration is simply trying to defer to Congress rather than create a polarizing situation.
Each January, they would be met by high-minded reminders that the festival also nurtured talent, believed in story (a Sundance mantra) and embraced diversity.
This is a serious, high-minded film, but it's also a somber one whose quiet spots too often feel not contemplative or fraught, but enervated.
Each wants something different as he or she travels to the powwow, from the high-minded to the poignant to the confused to the criminal.
High-minded warnings about breakdowns in trust and the death of truth have more impact when deaths from the coronavirus are being reported every day.
In the 20083s and '40s, the term appeared occasionally in advertisements for intellectual products: plays, books and church sermons, book reviews and high-minded articles.
American literature and Italian cinema are two of my longstanding passions, but I never dreamed they would meet in such a frenzied, high-minded hookup.
Critics have said that it allows companies to gloss over their sins with high-minded pledges to do better, and that it is insufficiently diverse.
In his second term, the much-lauded bipartisan 22006 tax reform bill represented a reasonable high-minded compromise of the two poles of the debate.
"I watched the first season or so, but I found the speechifying, the high-minded earnestness — it was like fingernails on a blackboard," she said.
I still haven't forgiven Ralph Nader, who had been a hero of mine, and all his high-minded rhetoric for giving us George H.W. Bush.
Worse still, was I trying to pass off my personal revenge fantasy as high-minded and rational, inspired by Google searches I digni­fied as "scientific data"?
Fun might be a subjective quality, but Kael was sure it was the movies' highest value in a way the more high-minded critics were not.
Except it wasn't a sideshow after all, and the original decision — high-minded or sanctimonious, depending on one's point of view — came to look plain wrong.
This will not be like the US where the American TV talk shows, with their erudite monologues, seem to take a high-minded view of satire.
In Tarrant's world, two codes—of racist memes and romantic racist ideology, of viral YouTube videos and high-minded nativist myth—intermingle until they are indistinguishable.
James Jones, whose long career overlapped Mattis's and who later served as national security adviser to President Barack Obama, credits Mattis with a "high-minded" approach.
His combative performance dispensed with the high-minded judicial persona he adopted during his initial confirmation hearings and embraced the partisanship Democrats have accused him of.
You get the point: Even what we see as our most high-minded and noble journeys can perpetuate the destructive forces that we hope to escape.
This is a high-minded and carefully composed film about, among other things, the inability of words in any language to satisfactorily communicate states of being.
That would resolve the age-old contradiction between hard-nosed profit-seeking and high-minded world-changing — and its IPO prospectus aims to prove it right.
The fashion establishment tends to elevate those designers who play up the artistry and high-minded theatrics of what is, on some level, the rag trade.
That would be nearly unthinkable hubris in the shadow play of Chinese politics, where ambition and power plays come cloaked in high-minded rhetoric and rules.
Wealth Matters Most New Year's resolutions turn out to be less successful than people expect when they make them, starting with high-minded goals for fitness.
What's new is that this faint style has developed a politics or an ethics that gives non-judgment in the book review a high-minded justification.
Clinton and himself as high-minded advocates of "inclusive" policies rather than exclusionary proposals like Mr. Trump's call for temporarily barring Muslims from entering the United States.
By contrast, had Obama struggled more mightily than he did, Clinton's appeal to hard-nosedness, and her leeriness of high-minded idealism, would be easier to sell.
But when you're talking about acquiring massive amounts of money, Google has shown that it isn't going to let high-minded ideals get in the way.[Reuters]
It offloads some of the smaller tasks that humans, paid expensive humans handle, onto a robot so that they can focus on, like, more high-minded activities.
" (Go deeper in this column.) Bruni said it's possible some donors "giving for only high-minded reasons" will "see their alma maters more darkly than they did.
Facing a Democratic crowd that liked both him and Clinton, Sanders appeared high-minded and magnanimous, willing to defend a fellow Democrat rather than score cheap points.
Instead of the high-minded political rhetoric and careful compromises of Sorkin's world, we were treated to years of gridlock and racism directed at the Obama administration.
A charming, earnest, sometimes ungainly mixture of history, criticism and high-minded gossip, "Notfilm" testifies to an almost inexhaustible fascination with the pleasures and paradoxes of cinema.
For more than a century, one argument for bringing women into public life has been the belief that they are more virtuous and high-minded than men.
Trump's first insight into the rage for "global governance" among the high minded came on trade issues, and his concern for the World Trade Organization's adjudication mechanism.
Mr. Ryan urged Republicans to embrace civility and high-minded policy ideas, rather than the "ugliness" that he said had consumed the 2016 presidential race so far.
Bush's brand of pugnacious nationalism emphasized America's high-minded ideals, while Trump is more likely to invade a country to take the oil than to spread democracy.
I find myself envying his misguided faith in the high-minded good taste of the public, even as I cherish Mel Brooks's belief in our irrepressible vulgarity.
The anti-Trumpist speeches were pointed at times but also muted, with the president's name mostly unmentioned, and his policies opposed with high-minded, values-based appeals.
High-minded defenses of Trump and his peers among the European far right often point out that nationalism has been often been a tool of national liberation.
Or perhaps Southern voters simply care less about Cruz's high-minded conservatism than the racial anxieties that animate it—anxieties that Trump has tapped into far more directly.
Many founders begin their careers embracing high-minded ideals: freedom of speech, tolerance of difference, equality of opportunity, support for the underdog, respect for the law, and more.
Despite qualms about the focus, it's still possible to applaud the effort and high-minded motives, and there's plenty of food for thought buried in the episodes previewed.
It means that Angela Merkel must go — so that her country, and the continent it bestrides, can avoid paying too high a price for her high-minded folly.
The idea that law enforcement embraces civil asset forfeiture purely out of a high-minded desire to take a bite out of crime doesn't square with the facts.
Crushed (at least in memory), he felt that a line had been crossed, permanently separating the high-minded, essentially intellectual inheritance of the Revolution from the American future.
Years ago, he made what seemed to be a drastic shift from the high-minded world of academia — philosophy — to the world of money lending and thoroughbred racing.
In the university office, all the women had petted him and were in awe of his mystique: he had seemed thoughtful, forgetful, bumbling, dryly humorous, and high-minded.
"As high-minded as it was, it didn't work out," said Adam Weinstein, president and chief executive of Phipps Houses, the nonprofit owner and developer behind the complex.
So she campaigns in contradictions: alternately high-minded and scorched-earth, inspirational and deflating, triumphantly reveling in her gender identity but still subjected to the impulses of men.
In it, he urged Republicans to embrace civility and high-minded policy ideas, rather than the "ugliness" that he said has consumed the 2016 presidential race so far.
And while all this goes on, high-minded organizations like the Web3 Foundation are trying to foster the development of a user-friendly crypto-ecosystem and decentralized web.
In Wilson's telling, Barnum is a far more complex character—a huckster, yes, but one with high-minded ideals that he strove, sometimes successfully, to live up to.
The basic outlines here were hawkish on foreign policy, reformist on political process, and favorable toward high-minded elite projects like comprehensive immigration reform and carbon emissions pricing.
And they did not want to make it seem that the truckloads of money they stood to make were more important than their start-ups' high-minded missions.
It's instructive to read the high-minded defenses of Trump offered by writers in Breitbart, The Washington Times, The Federalist, and the rest of the pro-Trump press.
Which leaves me wondering if there's a way to adapt a high-minded vision of guns and citizenship to our era of extended adolescence and young-male anomie.
On paper, he extends the geometric abstraction of Suprematism into real life as a high-minded form of room decoration, while hinting at industrial materials in his paintings.
He emphasized that, in his view, he wasn't legally required to do a thing, presenting his largely symbolic measures as a high-minded sacrifice to the public interest.
Despite their high-minded claims about the importance of proportional representation, we still haven't heard one Democrat explain why that "balance" only applies when Republicans are in charge.
However, fund managers at the UC system — encompassing Berkeley, Los Angeles, Davis, and several other campuses — say their decision to divest isn't guided by these high-minded principles.
The area's incredible natural beauty also played into the idea of feeding one's body, mind and spirit, as the Paepckes' high-minded concept for Aspen is now characterized.
But if Warren can, at times, seem to have answers to all the worries a voter can name, there are other, less high-minded questions she must still address.
So in a perhaps misguided effort to make the changing of the guard look more high-minded, the administration had the FBI look into financial improprieties at the WHTO.
Of course, what has most high-minded liberals alarmed about Donald Trump isn't his tax or foreign policies — it's his bashing of Muslims and immigrants to the United States.
Their contribution here carries through with their most atmospheric, high-minded take on hyper-political crust—this is dark hardcore from the gutter that looks up at the stars.
Le Pen's National Front Party has a long history of euroskepticism and promotes a number of policies that are anathema to the high-minded principles behind the European project.
That community is overwhelmingly focused on the Middle East, prides itself on high-minded humanitarian ideals and far-thinking strategy, and is often critical of President Obama's foreign policy.
But even if Bezos and Whole Foods were to reverse course, the situation also makes clear that workers cannot rely on high-minded promises from their executives or companies.
It is Mr. Druid, though, who temporarily rescues the film from its own carefulness, piercing its bubble of high-minded complacency with his slow-burning anger and deadpan humor.
Soon Wenerd, 30, was swamped with more selfish requests: people raising money not for anything high-minded or charitable, but for spring break trips, honeymoons and credit-card debt.
And while the purpose of SwipeBuster would seemingly be to expose cheaters, its anonymous founder claimed in an interview with Vanity Fair that his aim is more high-minded.
At the age of 20, he was making good on his high-minded promise to Steve Ruiz, standing in the aisles of a sport supply store seven years earlier.
She's happy to paper over Anahata's problems by offering some high-minded, fanciful justification for terrible behavior today — because to get ahead in tech is to join the cult.
Felt, of course, kept his identity secret for decades, and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein typically presented Deep Throat's motives as somewhat more high-minded than cutthroat bureaucratic warfare.
Not coincidentally, many of the deals are deeply transactional — represented a least common denominator nexus of interest group demands rather than a high-minded, principles-based effort at reform.
Gradually, it occurred to me that I was instead watching a seven-hour-long orgy of violence against women—promoted and marketed as high-minded, politically astute popular entertainment.
The event has become a byword for the brand of high-minded globalism that Trump angrily denounced as a candidate and has found little place in his White House.
After a general transport strike lasting nearly a month, Mr. Juppé — often accused of the same kind of high-minded imperiousness as Mr. Macron — was forced to back down.
On Monday, Mr. Cuomo was at the 603th floor of One World Trade Center, speaking in high-minded terms about the battles ahead for Democrats both here and beyond.
Aside from perennial nature-or-nurture questions, there is the more difficult question of why that intelligence was so often matched by such bracing originality and high-minded purpose.
Spirituality — love of the gods, of ancient texts, of uplifting and comforting ceremonies and magnificent architecture — is high-minded, moral, inspiring, and Taseer praises the Brahmins for their spirituality.
It's the product of the intersection of a longstanding, long-marginalized part of the conservative movement with both the most high-minded and the basest elements of internet culture.
None of these facts are tainted by the sleight-of-hand quasi-intellect one might find in a cable drama, bereft with high-minded ideas, wooden characters, and casual racism.
If businesses do change their minds about projects there, it's more likely to be because of expropriation risk than it is to be a triumph of high-minded democratic idealism.
An organisation built on such prosaic foundations would doubtless not have excited the high-minded scribbler's imagination (and for all its pan-European commingling, Brussels will never match Zweig's Vienna).
After losing a few key players — the major Greyjoy fleet, the Sand Snakes, and the power of Highgarden — Dany ditches her more high-minded strategies for brute force and fire.
That process is hardly dignified: nothing can be farther from the grand world of European symbols and high-minded post-nationalism than the unseemly squabble over resources between member states.
And that's why a figure like Band can be so important — it allows the principal to ride above crass commerce, engaged in more high-minded discussions of ideas and policies.
He's joined by founder and CEO Amy Nauiokas, who in addition to being one of Fintech's most prominent female investors also owns a high-minded film and television production company.
Moten's insightful comments demonstrate that the problem of the one-way cultural street is still here, even in the supposedly high-minded milieu of a literary critic such as Perloff.
This sort of high-minded name-dropping has the feel of post-facto rationalizing, with exalted figures serving as a classy varnish, not unlike Trump's own gaudy gold-encrusted residence.
But as activists have pointed out, those seemingly high-minded goals are fundamentally incompatible with capitalism, as it takes a constantly renewing customer base for any business to stay afloat.
But Camus wrote exclusively in the philosophical and high-minded tradition of Racine: though he insists on humanity, there are only scraps of actual human-animal behavior in his books.
The only conclusion I am left to draw is that the company is O.K. with taking part in the suppression of freedoms abroad while espousing high-minded values at home.
But the hour-and-a-half service honoring Mr. McCain, who would have turned 82 Wednesday, included more tears — and far more laughter — than it did high-minded political lectures.
Its people thirst for a Europe of churches and traditional culture, but are frustrated in their high-minded aspirations by obstacles thrown up abroad, in this case the English weather.
In Greece on Saturday, he proudly portrayed the Trump administration's approach to Ukraine as a high-minded vigil against corruption and an attempt to ensure against interference in American elections.
More high-minded restaurateurs would be tempted to follow the lead of the New York restaurateur Danny Meyer and get rid of tipping by raising prices and bumping up salaries.
This loyalty is high- minded, but it also raises the question of whether Sanders can finally make the jump from being a surprisingly strong second-place candidate to winning the race.
BuzzFeed might not seem like the most obvious publication to ask readers for financial support, as it doesn't really have the high-minded appeal of (say) NPR or The New Yorker.
Every Thursday for the past 973 years (holidays aside) he has presented a programme called "In Our Time" on BBC Radio 4 that consists of high-minded conversations with three academics.
Isn't the G.O.P. the party of Ronald Reagan, who sold conservatism with high-minded philosophical messages, like talking about a "strapping young buck" using food stamps to buy T-bone steaks?
In early reviews from 2018's Toronto International Film Festival, critics were mostly impressed with High Life, praising it as a "high-minded" film in the vein of Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris.
Flanked by guest rapper Nipsey Hussle, this isn't a high-minded political evisceration of Trump's policies, but an all-out character assassination in the plain-speaking voice of the frustrated everyman.
These aren't always the most high-minded or important principles, but they've helped distinguish him from scores of unprincipled opportunists who've held and hold positions of high power in our government.
"It is all very well for high-minded westerners to preach justice and autonomy of the person, but these ethical principles have no efficacy in the context I describe," Vincent added.
That's the aim of a consortium of Swiss researchers with the conceptual Clip-Air, a bold-looking plane-train hybrid that despite its high-minded possibilities, will probably never get made.
Whatever blend of politically ecumenical anti-authoritarianism, high-minded altruism and harmless neurosis may underlie the preparedness, and whatever medical, mechanical or other misfortunes it anticipates, it looks good on everyone.
The album's tight, high-minded complexity is firmly balanced by big, fat death metal grooves, innovative bass work (see "The Voices from Beneath the Well" especially), and a damp, sepulchral atmosphere.
The high-minded showcase of the acting craft attracted a who's who of Hollywood over the years, including Paul Newman, Barbra Streisand, Meryl Streep, Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams and Anthony Hopkins.
Where other presidents may have worn an uncomfortable mask of hypocrisy, paying "lip service" to lofty ideals of "civic virtue," the current president doesn't even pretend to anything so high-minded.
For all the pledges of doing what's in the best interest of the American people or engaging in a high-minded conversation about policy, what motivates politicians is often petty grievances.
Malcolm seemed to think that Brexit voters, including former industrial workers in Britain's rust-belt cities, were moved by the same high-minded principles that had made him a convinced Brexiteer.
The Florida Senator's shifting emphasis from the "New American Century" to questioning the billionaire's hand size and fake tan may have done his previously high-minded campaign more harm than good.
" I also argued that despite the high-minded rhetoric about what the Founding Fathers would have wanted, it was also "essentially an attempt to steal an election that Trump fairly won.
In this movie, Rat and Bear wander through bucolic landscapes, into the depths of a cavern and over a glacier in the Swiss Alps, arguing and holding forth on high-minded topics.
On the other side lies the high-minded commitment, tinged with technocracy, to continual reform in search of a common good — devoid of any need to make connection with grubby party politics.
This mission involved both appeals to high-minded principle and to sentiment—tales of British civilian pluck were a staple—to counter the rhetoric of the America First Committee and other isolationists.
Bonus points go to the candidate who can connect his or her work with the Founders and tie policies to the high-minded ethical principles shaped by our most profound religious traditions.
In an earlier era of digital publishing, Suck was rude (just look at the name the site's founders chose for themselves, back when online magazines called themselves high-minded things like Salon).
B.R. On her deliriously kinetic third album, "Tempo," the composer, singer and electronic producer Olga Bell puts a high-minded spin on dance music, coming up with something poplike but wonderfully strange.
At the least, readers of "Chaos Monkeys" will think twice before taking at face value tech leaders' high-minded arguments for refusing to assist our national security apparatus in fighting terrorist threats.
But the company that produced most of those movies, Cinepix, wasn't so high-minded, according to Alan Randolph Young, a Concordia University postgrad (and former VICE contributor) specializing in early Quebec softcore.
"Every Day Is Extra" offers a detailed record of an important life, a dutiful recounting of long-forgotten triumphs and setbacks, and a high-minded coda about the virtues of public service.
But its high-minded intentions have produced an unwelcome result: heaps of criticism from some of its star players, past and present; confusion among fans; and normally friendly television announcers expressing exasperation.
Such tolerant pluralism has a long and distinguished pedigree, from writings of figures like James Madison and John Locke to the broader Christian ideal of loving one's enemies; great, high-minded stuff.
He employed a sort of Dada irony and sometimes colorful Pop Art splashes — blue was his favorite color — to rescue conceptual art from what he saw as its high-minded self-seriousness.
Oddly enough, amid high-minded discussions about the aerial application of chemicals and remote-sensing systems, was tucked this suggestion: Perhaps humans could subsist wholly—or partially—on a diet of krill.
The what&aposs-true-what&aposs-not tricks, reminiscent of last year&aposs "I, Tonya," are — like the students&apos own high-minded plans — not quite as smart as Layton seems to think.
EDM fans and festival goers seem to be the target audience, though the Kickstarter page does include some high-minded language about the importance of masks throughout history and a quote from Descartes.
Despite the obviously sexual and aggressive dimensions of his art, Acconci, who had studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, insisted that he was preoccupied with high-minded intellectual concepts like perception and language.
The high-minded positivists who ran the Brazilian republic were humiliated by a rebellion in the 21990s by a monarchist preacher at Canudos, in the parched interior of Bahia in the north-east.
Ruben Östlund (Force Majeure) won the Palme d'Or at Cannes in May for The Square, his high-concept takedown of our high-minded ideals and the myriad ways we flub them in execution.
Comey pretty clearly regards his view of American political life as a high-minded, righteous one -- the product of so many years either exercising power or observing (and judging) others in the act.
After Obama took office, he managed to deliver a lot of concrete public policy achievements but very little of the high-minded change in the natural of the political system that he'd promised.
I'd urge students to fight the good fight here: try like hell to hold these elite universities accountable to their high-minded ideals, that they might better reflect the composition of our society.
"The Lair of the White Worm" (1988), new on Blu-ray from Vestron, might be considered a one-off revival of the mode, directed by Britain's master of high-minded hysteria, Ken Russell.
That set off a chain of events, with Anthony taking to social media for a high-minded rebuttal and, ultimately, agreeing to a meeting with Jackson in Los Angeles to talk it out.
Less clear, however, is how Mr. Krakoff, who is known for his way with leather and cashmere and who has a penchant for architecture and high-minded modernism, will handle diamonds and pearls.
And for much of this year, the savvy journalistic thing to do has been to scold Republicans for trying to enact deficit-busting tax cuts under the guise of high-minded tax reform.
But it doesn't matter, because they serve an important social function: They give us all a high-minded excuse to do the thing we all already want to do — buy and eat cookies.
But it's of course precisely because Trump does not seem like the kind of high-minded individual who would value independence and integrity in public officials that the Senate must insist on it.
Hiding behind the high-minded notion of a "fiduciary" standard that purports to put customers' interests first is a regulation that is expensive and onerous, and not a favor to investors in the end.
For some audiences, Michael Myers as a character may simply be antiquated, particularly with a newer crop of high-minded horror films like Hereditary, The Witch, and The Babadook terrifying audiences in recent years.
Clinton (and himself) as high-minded advocates of "inclusive" policies — an adjective that he repeated several times — rather than exclusionary proposals like Mr. Trump's call for temporarily banning Muslims for entering the United States.
Founded nine years ago by five entrepreneurs, Summit has come into its own as an innovation confab that skews younger and less-buttoned-up than TED or Aspen Ideas but is equally high-minded.
But it is worth saying that the tax cut ultimately came together because Republicans abandoned Ryan's vision of a high-minded tax reform and his dumb talking point about filing taxes on a postcard.
In Iowa, meanwhile, the newest candidate in the race was casting his political worldview as a kind of high-minded pragmatism, describing bipartisanship as a necessity during his six years in the House minority.
In other words, you can have the traditional sidewalk pizza experience, but you will be tasting flavors you normally find only in high-minded sit-down pizzerias like Sorbillo, Ops or Una Pizza Napoletana.
"High-minded sort?" sounds like we're looking for a big thinker, but that question mark diverts us and we wind up with an AVIATOR, who certainly takes his or her mind high when flying.
The proposal resembles other actions by the Trump administration that combine high-minded language about encouraging investment in lower-income communities with policies that are actually written to let money flow to other places.
By the '80s, "Asian fusion" was the name applied to what high-minded chefs like Wolfgang Puck, Roy Yamaguchi and Jean-Georges Vongerichten were doing with the marriage of traditional Asian and French ingredients.
We owe a great deal of the modern world to people doggedly trying to solve some high-minded problem: how to construct an internal-combustion engine, or how to manufacture vaccines in large quantities.
Moser cites Castle's insight that Sontag didn't like talking about "Notes on Camp" in particular because it was too obviously queer for the later universally high-minded, sexuality-transcending "Susan Sontag" persona she'd established.
Mr. Gorbachev sounds high-minded and statesmanlike as he discusses the future, asking Mr. Bush to support Mr. Yeltsin and Russia's reforms, and to help the former Soviet republics achieve separation without disintegrating further.
In her eyes, the industry is such an interlinked mess that even its most independent, high minded enterprises feed into a corrupt system that cannot be adequately regulated or reformed to be truly ethical.
Wayne is great precisely because his oeuvre covers such a huge range of topics and his wish list involves such a crazy mix of high-minded and mundane concerns: So do our own minds.
So, to see these high-minded "others" taking content from us common black folks, after just assuming it originated in their "community"—and was therefore okay to TAKE—did not go over well with us.
Galaxy Quest, a 1999 science-fiction comedy in which the cast members of a canceled but still beloved Star Trek-like television series are whisked away by Thermians, a high-minded but credulous alien race.
The vibe of the conference was self-consciously reserved and high-minded — I only spotted one Make America Great Again hat among the whole group of attendees (who, for what it's worth, were overwhelmingly white).
"Orchidelirium," which opens on Saturday, evokes this heady time, when imperial ambition and ruthless acquisitiveness coexisted with the high-minded thirst for knowledge epitomized by naturalists like Charles Darwin, himself no stranger to orchid fever.
In the case of The Body, Davis and Fisher deliver some of the key elements of an exploitation film — namely, a handful of gory murders — between scenes that balance gruesome slapstick with high-minded philosophizing.
China's fiscal and monetary stimulus measures have been credited with turning around the country's economy and perhaps underpinning a rebound in European and global trade this year by high-minded economists, including at the IMF.
His visit, the first by a Japanese prime minister in more than 211 years, is the latest in a series of high-minded but long-shot efforts to lift Japan's influence on the global stage.
Suddenly I'm not watching my version of Hellsing, where it's all high-minded bureaucratic politics and deep feelings repressed by obligation and duty—basically a Merchant and Ivory production but with automatic weapons and zombies.
"I can't stay between the lines, but I'm rockin' steady," Lambert sings, and only the most high-minded listeners will not immediately think of "Rock Steady," the 2001 album by No Doubt—Gwen Stefani's band.
MUSE OF MUAMMAR: Condoleezza Rice's "Democracy" is new on the hardcover nonfiction list, at No. 4, and plenty of observers have already commented on its sober, high-minded rhetoric about America's role in the world.
The concerns about plutocracy, political corruption, technological change, and mass immigration were similar, and the reformers' high-minded cures were forerunners of today's ideas for limiting campaign funds and drawing congressional districts in nonpartisan ways.
A Russian-speaker (as a student, he translated Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin"), he counted Vladimir Putin as a personal friend and loathed the "badly brought up" east Europeans with their high-minded talk and Atlanticist outlook.
And progressives more recently have soured on the reformist Democrats of the post-Watergate moment, scorning their concerns as a high-minded, suburban, "good government" distraction from the core New Deal mission of economic redistribution.
Russia, it's noted, orchestrated its social media efforts to "strike at the fault lines of American democracy," and the creation of media bubbles has made high-minded language about American commonalities more difficult to realize.
While the bros think a beautiful young woman like Fallon is a stewardess who can barely grasp their high-minded business chatter, the cutthroat energy mogul is already planning a corporate takeover strategy in her mind.
Framed as a single work, the simplicity of the collected objects reference both the building's industrial past and the artist's high-minded regard for the smallest amount of intervention in the materials used in his work.
If you've been aching for some high-minded chatter on the topic of how we, as social animals living in a postmodern society, interact with and are affected by social media and technology, you're in luck.
When I decided to become a journalist, I imagined that my peers — and certainly my superiors — of all genders would be progressive, high-minded people who cared about noble things like justice and truth and art.
While Kovacs sets about investigating an improbable murder, Morgan points out all the ways that this high-minded technological innovation isn't so much an advancement for humanity, but another outlet for people to express their depravity.
Backed by partner organisations in the United States, the EJC presented the governments and bureaucrats of the European Union with an "action plan" which they feel is needed to turn high-minded rhetoric into tangible change.
While some criticism has been disproportionate to the offense—Weiss's tweet was factually wrong, but written with good intentions—the op-ed page hasn't quite lived up to Bennet's high-minded call for freshness and diversity.
Perhaps realizing it needs a more high-minded purpose than just "self-driving cars are cool," Grab is framing its public test as a way to provide transit to residents of Singapore who lack many options.
In some cases, the party offered donors the chance to join "roundtables" — meetings for major givers disguised as high-minded discussions of national economic and social policy, where wealthy givers are treated as savants and sages.
Others (myself included) told ourselves that this irresponsibility could be mitigated by effective statesmanship, when in reality political conservatism's leaders — including high-minded figures like Paul Ryan — turned out to have no strategy save self-preservation.
If there's a quibble one can register against Kunhardt's presentation, it's that the film doesn't challenge its subject enough for his role in perpetuating the current partisan divide, despite recent high-minded rhetoric on the topic.
Depending on your perspective, this has always been Trump's immediate political threat or promise—that he might strip bare the pretense that high-minded, philosophical conservatism, rather than ethno-nationalist grievances, are what drives Republican politics.
For all of the high-minded hopes about discussing the future of the party and the country, the Republicans acknowledged that the most attention-grabbing moments came when candidates clashed or made an exceptionally passionate point.
It spoke to another vacuum — a moral one — being filled by companies, many of which are more high-minded, forward-thinking and solutions-oriented than the federal government on immigration, L.G.B.T. rights, climate change and more.
David Hartman "Mother!" has beautiful cinematography and may pretend to intellectual high-minded allegory, but in reality the repetitive theme of creation and destruction plays out more like "Groundhog Day" in hell than a biblical allegory.
For all the high-minded window dressing that often attaches to secession rules, in the end, they "have more to do with what the powerful want," said Bridget L. Coggins, a political scientist who studies secession.
A Russian-speaker (as a student, he translated Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin"), he proudly counted Vladimir Putin as a personal friend and loathed the "badly brought up" east Europeans with their high-minded talk and Atlanticist outlook.
Bulls and Bears • Axe's line about fighting the Battle of Thermopylae seems like too high-minded a historical reference for him until you realize that he's the type of guy who owns "300" on Blu-ray.
High-minded and noble though it may be, the idea that wanting a thing makes you someone who perhaps shouldn't have it is too often a pretty fiction designed to prop up an unjust status quo.
And yet years after the HBO satire "Silicon Valley" made the vacuous mission statement "making the world a better place" a recurring punch line, many companies still cheerlead the virtues of work with high-minded messaging.
There's a lot in the proposal, but here are the key parts: Warren is laying out her ideal world in this bill, but she's not the first politician to propose some high-minded rules against corruption.
His version of globalism isn't the high-minded humane cosmopolitanism that would, say, forestall massive cuts in the foreign aid budget or militate in favor of generous treatment of Central American families seeking refuge from gang violence.
The year after, he wrote his second art review where he established himself as a high-minded advocate of romantic critical theory by claiming that painting should emphasize emotions, while also stressing 18th-century ideas of sublimity.
During the political standoff over these appeals court filibusters, some of us argued that Democrats should take advantage of Republican frustration to strike a high-minded compromise and return the Senate to the principle of majority rule.
That isn't to say Clinton's determination to avoid press conferences is good or wise; it's possible she wouldn't do one even if she knew it would be the most high-minded affair in the history of journalism.
The revelation of "Zauberland" was to hear Bullock apply her rich-hued voice and expressive intelligence to a famous group of songs that too often fall victim to the high-minded clichés of the vocal-recital circuit.
His version of globalism isn't the high-minded humane cosmopolitanism that would, say, forestall massive cuts in the foreign aide budget or militate in favor of generous treatment of Central American families seeking refuge from gang violence.
Both Ryan and Romney have stepped forward with high-minded soliloquies about the G.O.P.'s values and future, and while that may well be a reflection of conscience, mightn't it also be a fig leaf over ambition?
Batty and Supey themselves, meanwhile, perpetually mistake their narcissism for high-minded public service, and are encouraged to do so by the cynical and sanctimonious institutions that are nominally in charge of things in Gotham and Metropolis.
Medicine had hit a standstill on earth when war became the foremost concern and thus high-minded men and women were determined to advance our ability to vanquish disease and disorder the moment we left our atmosphere.
But the Electoral College also brings the risk of anti-majority outcomes — in which the winner of the national popular vote loses the election — for no high-minded reasons at all, as occurred in 2000 and 2016.
During his tenure as director, Mr. Castorf established the theater as a home for ambitious, experimental productions — which could run for seven hours — often blending a punk-rock sensibility with high-minded ideas about politics and history.
What offsets it all is Takenaga's refusal to become hermetic or esoteric: you feel a democratic impulse running through all her work, a commitment to the possibilities of a high-minded visual pleasure that anyone can enjoy.
But Ms. Bailey's real skill — the reason she lasted so long — was being able to balance such high-minded homages to the magazine's history with content that seemed, more and more, like an astutely art-directed catalog.
It's soaring, high-minded stuff, and Shawl does a marvelous job of demonstrating the capabilities of the steampunk subgenre, which too often sacrifices the richness of actual, global history in favor of Victorian fetishization and racial exclusion.
As the ad was beamed into homes in Iowa and New Hampshire, the Clinton campaign cried foul, calling it a negative attack and a violation of Mr. Sanders's high-minded pledge never to run such an ad, ever.
Its concrete and glass headquarters sits amid a cluster of high-minded international institutions in The Hague, down the street from the tribunal where Yugoslavia's war criminals were tried and not far from the International Court of Justice.
Adam's an embarrassingly earnest try-hard of a character, always ready to launch into high-minded conversations about art and ethics but seemingly incapable of reading the room to see if his audience wants to talk about them.
The supposedly high-minded owners who submitted her to examination were not so different from the showman P. T. Barnum, who in 1835 launched his career with the purchase of an elderly, paralytic slave woman named Joice Heth.
But as hard as she and her directors may try to instill high-minded values throughout the company, Pepsi is still a for-profit corporation with a quarter of a million employees working to sell sugary, fatty snacks.
Even the thwarted Englishman, in his later years, acknowledged that the rightful claim to being first to the pole went to Plai­sted and his snowmobiling pals, although their voyage lacked the high-minded pretensions of golden-age exploration.
Don't just rely on high-minded lettersThe Business Roundtable executives want a pat on the back for stating what most Americans already thought was true — companies have a responsibility to customers, employees, and the communities they work in.
But she had a theme and a point: For all the high-minded focus on policy, the current president ran on a gut appeal to instincts and archetypes, and his opponent would need some counter besides bullet points.
In public settings of late, Mr. O'Rourke has placed immigration, education and especially climate change at the center of his remarks, which tend to focus most on a high-minded-but-vague message of uniting a divided nation.
TUESDAY PUZZLE — There will be no juvenile jokes in today's column about Greg Johnson's puzzle theme, because this is and has always been a dignified forum in which only the most refined and high-minded discussions take place.
Here are the top moments of Monday's closing arguments: Throughout the trial, the House managers buttressed their arguments with weighty, high-minded references to the Constitution, the founding fathers, and a slew of other historical and political icons.
The second trailer for the new animated film from Laika, the studio behind the Oscar-nominated 2016 "Kubo and the Two Strings," can't seem to decide if it's selling a slapstick farce or a more high-minded adventure.
DAVOS, Switzerland — The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago was no less than "reshaping the world" — and the gathering of global power players still lends itself to high-minded ideals.
But it's also always been an unpopular move, and to make life easier on senators facing reelection this year, the GOP conference has been at pains to insist the decision was rooted in high-minded principles and fake history.
Over recent months, he's interviewed a forensic architect for our Future of Technology issue, spoken with Kelly Reichardt about subverting the western, and reviewed numerous high-minded books for VICE in a vain quest to make us look smarter.
It can follow Flake's lead and be a high-minded party of small-government principle, disavowing bigotry and paranoia — and it will lose elections, because purist libertarianism plus supply-side economics is not a winner in the current crisis.
But there is a growing perception that some who come to the city are more interested in less high-minded pursuits — namely, marijuana and prostitution, both of which are largely legal — and may be doing more harm than good.
It's not that any of the high-minded, good-doing, often professedly liberal people who invited him to parties and accepted his favors necessarily approved of him, any more than they approved of, say, Harvey Weinstein or Trump himself.
Even though that amount might just be a "small part" of Facebook's business, as Zuckerberg notes, it still calls into question the notion that it's willingness to greenlight nearly all political ads is rooted purely in high-minded ideals.
Coined by the political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, the term "Davos Man" refers to an economic elite who built unheard-of fortunes on the seemingly high-minded notions of free trade, low taxes and low regulation that they championed.
It is concerning to see Rubio advocating forceful regime change in Syria and hiring a foreign policy adviser who advocates it in Iran, all along similar high-minded ideological lines as the neoconservative obsession with Iraq 20 years ago.
One immediate consequence of this would be that it would give guys like Ben Sasse and Mike Lee, who sometimes like to position themselves as more high-minded than Trump, the opportunity to actually vote against the president sometimes.
I imagine there are people out there who are put off by artists like Lil Wayne, who lack the single-minded and high-minded focus of their peers when it comes to discussing matters of political importance or whatever.
The problem is that the White House appears to expect Democrats to be motivated to come to the table out of a high-minded desire to reopen the government and to be willing to swallow some lumps to accomplish that goal.
The bill represents the most significant rewriting of the nation's tax code in a generation — though in many ways it falls short of the high-minded "reform" Republicans set out to do, as the New York Times documented over the weekend.
The bill represents the most significant rewriting of the nation's tax code in a generation — though falls in many ways short of the high-minded "reform" Republicans set out to do, as the New York Times documented over the weekend.
Maybe that's because Vanderpump Rules doesn't pretend to be high-minded entertainment, doesn't purport to be about fake professional endeavors, as the Housewives franchise now does, forcing the viewer to go to someone's dog funeral fundraiser or injectables fashion show.
While the subjects covered may sometimes be as esoteric as any that you might find on a more rough-and-ready, lower-end podcast—the murder long forgotten, the case long unsolved—their pedigree makes them appear more high-minded.
For all the high-minded talk of journalism in the Trump era (much of which has been excellent) a scoop-driven collective action problem has driven reporters most deeply embedded in the Trump universe to repeat his administration's lies verbatim.
Trump swore on the campaign trail to establish his populist bona fides and connect with the working class, while at the same time distinguishing himself from typical Republicans like Jeb Bush, the high-minded WASP, or Mitt Romney, the prim Mormon.
The conceit that a liberal consensus is latent in the political life of modern democracies, waiting to be drawn out by philosophers (or judges and high-minded politicians), is perhaps less plausible today than it has been in several decades.
It's tempting to dismiss Ms. Haley — who is thought to harbor presidential ambitions — as an opportunist trying to sound high-minded while still remaining in the good graces of Mr. Trump and, more important, of the Republican voters who adore him.
There's no sense hectoring normal people for preferring comprehensible slogans and high-minded aspirations to tedious disquisitions on the art of the possible, and there's certainly no sense in hectoring practical politicians for trying to give people what they want.
The high-minded concept and not too dissimilar to what founder D. Neal and live collaborator R. Chiang get up to in their primary band, Botanist, which has long captivated curious minds with inimitable, often inscrutable hammered dulcimer-led black metal.
There was comfort and ease in watching movies together; Jeremy considered himself a little more high-minded than his dad, but they both disappeared into the screen's glow at about the same time, and they stayed lost once they got there.
But such a case needs to be actively made, rather than offered up as a no-brainer; there's little a populist demagogue can weaponize more easily than a policy, however sensible, presented by knowing elites as a high-minded fait accompli.
Add that to a couple of feminist references (BATGIRL is one; the other is a counterpart to an ordinary Joe, I guess you'd say) and some really unusual and high-minded fill (VISIGOTH, OSRIC) and I'd call this puzzle GREAT.
And he is stepping into a race filled with 19 other candidates who could lift their profiles by baiting the front-runner into a back-and-forth that would quickly erase memories of Mr. Biden's high-minded call to arms.
Both Mr. O'Rourke and the Democrats would do well to emulate the Kennedys of the 1950s and '60s: While maintaining a high-minded attitude, wage the equivalent of a political back-alley knife fight to succeed at the ballot box.
In other words, the aging woman has to be punished — and doubly punished, first by being thrust into a stupid and shallow relationship, and then by being made to give it up with high-minded talk about time and inevitability.
The piece is interested in the way high-minded principles can run against the practical realities of human relationships, and contrasts how a woman could be an accomplished spiritual mother to many while failing as an actual mother of one.
While his name came up a few times — if you want to cultivate the indigenous vote, never hang a portrait of the architect of Indian removal in the Oval Office — his absence was made palpable by the consistently high-minded discourse.
While his name came up a few times — if you want to cultivate the indigenous vote, never hang a portrait of the architect of Indian removal in the Oval Office — his absence was made palpable by the consistently high-minded discourse.
To be clear, the ideas of neoconservatism are not all exclusive to the Republican Party; Democrats such as Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power have pursued some, though far from all, similarly high-minded policies, particularly a belief in humanitarian interventions.
The WeWorks of the world were built on an ethos of positive vibes and unity — replete with what tech analyst Ranjan Roy calls "high-minded, burning man-esque self-actualization language" that, today, feels offensively out of sync with people's lived realities.
And then there are "the Crusaders of Compromise," as he terms the elite of the national security world; the diplomats he refers to as "the High Minded," with the capital H and capital M; "the True Believers" of the arms control priesthood.
Mr. Berlusconi was hell on traditional Italian cultural values, his years in office a prolonged populist takedown of the high-minded intellectual and aesthetic achievements that defined Italian architecture, art, industrial design and, not least, its fashion for much of the 20th century.
Meanwhile, on the left there is always a contingent of idealistic voters eager to believe that a sufficiently high-minded leader can conjure up the better angels of America's nature and persuade the broad public to support a radical overhaul of our institutions.
Craven's Swamp Thing is very much in the spirit of those original stories, with Jourdan's Anton Arcane representing the kind of high-minded sociopath whose attempts to manipulate the natural world demanded the righteous beat-down only a swampified Alec Holland could provide.
There's no rulebook on how to be sad, and although internet bandwagons can be aggravating, they're not half as bad as contrarians who try to reframe public discourse in a way that just happens to make them seem discerning and high-minded.
Spicer could have left the White House for any number of high-minded reasons, and he could have used this occasion as an opportunity to make it harder for Trump to do something bad, like smear or fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
All of this focus on locks instead of issues may be intensely irritating to anyone who wishes that elections would be more high-minded, and the question of exactly why hair has become so scrutinized is one that deserves a story unto itself.
In defending their recent coverage of this year's presidential race, reporters and representatives of major media organizations have frequently suggested—in various ways, implicitly, and explicitly—that their liberal critics are motivated by crude partisanship rather than any neutral or high-minded concerns.
After a few quarters of tepid results, investors grew impatient and a classic clash of corporate governance came spilling into view — how would a company like Etsy balance the short-term demands of its shareholders with its high-minded long-term mission?
And he was quick to invoke his relationship with Mr. Hurd, to deflect attacks from Mr. Cruz that he was too far left for Texas, and to burnish his self-styled standing as a high-minded antidote to the Capitol's seemingly intransigent partisanship.
" If the party limited itself to high-minded campaigning and legislating, "We'll lose again, and Kennedy" — the Supreme Court justice — "will retire, and Trump will get to appoint another conservative crazy, and the Democrats will wonder how things got to be so horrible.
In recent years, he said, Europe's center-left and center-right parties had tended to work together, either unofficially or in a grand coalition, in what was viewed as high-minded and sensible, an important bulwark against the rise of the far right.
Ever since "Saving Private Ryan," Hollywood has been eager to revisit World War II, partly to explore gray areas and narrative corners neglected in earlier eras and partly to have a high-minded reason to try out advances in bloody special effects.
"What I became very conscious of was that there are these two levels of discourse about sex, this high-minded academic discourse, which is about re-evaluating gender, challenging the patriarchy," Perrotta said in a Times interview the year the book came out.
Parker, now thirty-six, had previously been known for roles in high-minded movies such as "The Great Debaters" (2007), about the debate team at Wiley College, a historically black school in Marshall, Texas, and "Red Tails" (2012), about the Tuskegee Airmen.
He's shared a list of his favorite books and songs of 2017 on Facebook, and the result is equal parts wonky, high-minded, and cool — not to mention laced with what look like a few winking nods to the current occupant of the White House.
The argument frequently pits cynics and pragmatists, who see Barack Obama's high-minded-candidacy-turned-difficult-presidency as an object lesson in the unloveliness of governing, against idealists and counterfactualists, who say Obama never attempted to turn the promise of his campaign into progressive action.
There will be high-minded sessions on global climate change and gender equality, but the real value of Davos is for attendees to form relationships and seal deals, surrounded by their peers and basking in the glow of celebrities like Prince William and musician Will.
And today, the enigmatic founders of WhatsApp, Brian Acton and Jan Koum, together with a high-minded coder and cryptographer who goes by the pseudonym Moxie Marlinspike, revealed that the company has added end-to-end encryption to every form of communication on its service.
Last night, Staten Island even found its way onto the hallowed business-y airwaves of CNBC — home to shows with high-minded names like Retire Well and Executive Edge — with Staten Island Hustle, a reality show about five of the borough's boisterous business men.
Despite the high-minded aura many sought to associate with their efforts, Pelosi issued a fundraising appeal through the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that seemed out of step with a day where the narrative was supposed to be about ending the cycle of gun violence.
Weinstein and his brother Bob founded Miramax in 1979, and eventually changed the film business, turning high-minded movies such as Sex, Lies, and Videotape, My Left Foot, The Crying Game, Pulp Fiction, and countless others into mainstream hits in the late '80s and '90s.
Such people are disproportionately attracted to the nationalist, immigration-restrictionist right, and politicians who appeal to voters on those terms are more likely to define the agenda of any real-world political party dedicated to "national conservatism" than those who remain more high-minded.
The seamless gear-shifting between high-minded philosophical science fiction and smirking science-fiction satire is unusual for Black Mirror: it's making a point about how technology enables people's worst, most self-absorbed fantasies, without feeling like it's trying to grind viewers into dust.
But people who know McCarthy say he does not care about the broader implications of his plan — he isn't motivated by some ideological crusade to stick it to Wall Street, nor by some high-minded attempt to chart a new future for the technology sector.
Mr. Rich's predecessor, Colin Myler, the Fleet Street-trained former editor of News of the World, increased the tabloid's focus on celebrities, which succeeded in generating more web traffic but struck many as a betrayal of the paper's more high-minded, if populist, legacy.
Nothing illustrates that more clearly than the behavior of several GOP politicians who, after Trump's "grab 'em by the pussy" tape leaked in early October, took the high-minded approach of renouncing their support of him — only to, remarkably enough, re-endorse him days later.
In doing her father's bidding, Ivanka Trump is trying to tell the world that a sexist really wants to empower women, that a racist really cares about equal opportunity and that a narcissistic plutocrat is acting in the high-minded interests of the little people.
But along the way, virtually all of the high-minded aspirations were dropped and all of the normal aspects of congressional process broken — to the point where the bill's leading architects won't even mention the policy changes that are at the heart of the bill.
TOKYO — Shinzo Abe's visit to Iran this week, the first to that country by a Japanese prime minister in more than 40 years, is the latest in a series of high-minded but long-shot efforts to lift Japan's influence on the global stage.
Why it matters: The same companies that extol high-minded principles on U.S. soil are perfectly content to abide by every censorship rule set by the Chinese Communist Party — and are even happy to travel to Riyadh to butter up the murderous Saudi royal family.
What Trump describes is more of a Lincoln-esque "Team of Rivals" where high-minded experts argue over the best approach to the difficult problems facing the country, not a knock-down, drag-out "Hunger Games" scenario where the president encourages bloodletting and backstabbing.
They deploy the font Mr. Ruscha invented in the early '80s and has used in his text paintings ever since, called "Boy Scout Utility Modern," a name that, like much of Mr. Ruscha's canon, rests somewhere between perfectly literal description and high-minded gag.
Mishra's thesis is that our contemporary misery and revanchist nationalism can be traced to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's romantic reaction to Voltaire's Enlightenment—with the Enlightenment itself entirely to blame in letting high-minded disdain for actual human experience leave it open to a romantic reaction.
HaSalon, on a desolate corner in Hell's Kitchen, retains that devotion to technique but has an entirely different concept: reservations only; high-minded, high-priced food served in a kind of mismatched living room, which, after ten o'clock, turns bacchanalian, complete with dancing on tables.
Podhoretz saw himself as the one intellectual willing to tell the truth about the importance of money and fame and social status to supposedly high-minded people, and in telling it he imagined that all of these would accrue to him in greater amounts.
There will never again be a show like "One Day at a Time" or "All in the Family" — shows that derived their power not solely from their content, which might not hold up to today's more high-minded affairs, but also from their ubiquity.
Reality shows are not exactly known for high-minded conversation, but newspapers went into overdrive in June after one contestant, Hayley Hughes, a 43-year-old model from Liverpool, appeared not to know about Brexit, the term for Britain's imminent departure from the European Union.
When "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" opened in 2000, it carried surprises: that Ang Lee, a director known for high-minded literary adaptations, could make such a vibrant and exciting martial-arts movie, and that a Chinese-language film could be a box-office hit in America.
In fact, numerous exposes have documented U.N. neglect was far more widespread than accidental, ostensibly the outcome of high-minded aid policies that claimed to be uninfluenced by religious status or minority identity—exactly the characteristics, in other words, of those most savagely repressed by ISIS.
The imprints that survived were all built specifically to appeal to conservative readers, but not out of any high-minded ideas about celebrating the great American belief in free speech for all, or out of deep commitment on the part of the publishing CEOs to conservative values.
Yet through a combination of adroit negotiating and the high-minded pushiness that comes with representing a values-based superpower, Tom Perriello, the State Department's then special envoy for the Great Lakes, and John Kerry, the then secretary of state, helped persuade Mr Kabila to back down.
In the years since, the Senate has if anything become even more dysfunctional, so it appears very much in hindsight like Bayh concocted a high-minded excuse for retiring when his political fortunes looked bleak, and has come out of retirement now that his fortunes look better.
Filled with lists of bulleted topics and their high-minded explanations, one is hard-pressed to find an argument — some kind of compelling rationale for converting America into a European-style welfare state and altering the very nature of what makes Americans uniquely who we are.
The Greeks themselves understood this: even in the most tawdrily revisionist adaptations—such as Euripides' "Orestes," the play in which Aeschylus' high-minded Orestes and anguished Electra have become no more than a pair of young thugs—the gods and their plots and plans loom large.
But during a week of political pageantry that features high-minded paeans to universal rights, Ms. Ou and her colleagues at Taiwan's de facto consulate in New York can only watch the proceedings from afar, their frustration mounting with every rousing speech about justice and global inclusiveness.
Perhaps it's that a high-minded film auteur would not seem to possess a wacky enough personality to pair with a woman who earned a living parodying Beyoncé from Destiny's Child as "Britanica" from "Gemini's Twin"; perhaps it's that Maya Rudolph is not Daniel Day-Lewis.
On a recent evening, a group of around a dozen creative types—funky jewelry, high-minded tote bags—arrived at Westside Rifle & Pistol Range and nervously milled about as they waited to shoot at blown-up black-and-white photographs of themselves, in the name of art.
But that Irish band couldn't resist booking a tour of quickly sold-out stadium concerts featuring all the songs from its 21950 album, "The Joshua Tree" — songs that were still both brash and high-minded when U22 performed them here on Sunday night at CenturyLink Field.
High-minded goals and intellectual firepower course through the event, from the headline addresses by the president of China and the foreign minister of Iran to the snippets of conversations overheard in the sleek black buses that ferry thousands of participants through the town's snow-packed streets.
Krzykowski wasn't sure if Hempstead, who professed to be a devout Christian, was motivated by compassion for Rainey or by a less high-minded impulse—a desire to embarrass Dade or to leverage a transfer out of the T.C.U. In the end, however, she encouraged him.
A win for Newman would also be a rejection of the gutter tactics that the Lipinski-supporting centrist group No Labels has engaged in against her: A volunteer with the supposedly high-minded, postpartisan group sent text messages to a voter saying that Newman is a Holocaust denier.
Again, the trip ostensibly is meant to further illuminate Jamie's understanding of whom he is writing about, and they do visit the historic site of Gracchus's murder before Gore sharply lectures Jamie for focusing on Gracchus's high-minded ideals without understanding him as a flesh-and-blood man.
Adler puts it this way: Essentially what Facebook is trying to do is take the First Amendment, this high-minded principle of American law, and turn it into an engineering manual that can be executed every four seconds, for any piece of content happening anywhere on the globe.
The past week of Trump controversies — the sexual assault allegations, the tape of Trump bragging about groping women, his feud with House Speaker Paul Ryan — have illuminated a divide within conservative media between the high-minded establishment critical of Trump and those forging a campaign against political correctness.
And an anti-Trump movement that gives high-minded speeches but never mounts candidates confirms Trump's claim to face establishment opposition while also confirming his judgment of the establishment's guts and stamina — proving that they're all low-energy, all "liddle" men, all unwilling to fight him man to man.
What kept him from getting away with it was not the laws on the books — Russia's legal protections are no less extensive and high-minded than ours, but they don't prevent Vladimir Putin from laying waste to his political opponents — but shared political norms developed and stabilized over time.
" A self-congratulatory declassified report on the C.I.A.'s work in Chile's 22006 election boasts of the "hard work" the agency did supplying "large sums" to its favored candidate and portraying him as a "wise, sincere and high-minded statesman" while painting his leftist opponent as a "calculating schemer.
ALBANY — To many in Albany, New York's attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, seemed staid and somewhat standoffish: a teetotaler who favored coffee shops over bars, liked yoga and health food and preferred high-minded intellectual and legal debate to the hand-to-hand combat of New York's political arena.
Critics have long pointed out that We is saddled with a self-evidently faulty business model that leaves it open to real estate downturns, and that its co-founder and just-pushed-out chief executive, Adam Neumann, was a walking parody of high-minded impulsivity and self-dealing.
When I was young, I felt a high-minded scorn for the whodunits my elders favored: mystery novels that inducted you into the specificities of British racecourses or Native American reservations while satisfying the same itch for neat solutions as my father's games of solitaire, my mother's crossword puzzles.
This leaves Macron, for now, as the most influential head of state in the European Union, an institution that he is passionately committed to reinvigorating, both for high-minded reasons (peace on the Continent) and strategic ones (a strong E.U. is France's best hope against the U.S. and China).
With results taking weeks, however, most would rather get on it than wait, as no matter how high-minded they perceive themselves, their illusions of being artisans either hide an addiction—like, I suspect, with this guy—or ultimately the fuck-it attitude of nearly every coke user.
Through use of a companion app, Story can also serve as a short-term timer (say, for a meeting) or a long-term "Journey" mode, which the company envisions as tracking more high-minded goals, like where you are in a year, or how long until the birth of your child.
He may exercise the brain and the adrenal glands, but "Dunkirk" is too high-minded to get you sobbing or praying for a favourite character (though some over-zealous fans of Harry Styles, a boy band heartthrob who plays a young soldier in the film, have been worrying about his fate).
" Camus can play the role of "respectable" reactionary because his opposition to multicultural globalism is plausibly high-minded, principally aesthetic, even well-mannered—a far cry from the manifest brutality of the skinheads and the tattooed white nationalists who could put into action the xenophobic ideas expressed in "Le Grand Remplacement.
A sudden switch in tone and tactics, a commitment to building something (something more inspiring than a border wall, that is), and a few high-minded, kumbaya speeches might have thrown the opposition completely off balance and provided Mr. Trump, for once, with something that really was a historic accomplishment.
But even five decades after David Hockney first shocked viewers with depictions of his muse and lover, Peter Schlesinger, standing in the buff, the eroticized male nude still occupies a liminal space in art: Is it "real art," or is it nothing more than a kind of high-minded erotica?
As Osmond wrote in a letter to Huxley, minting a new word in the process: To fathom hell or soar angelic, Just take a pinch of psychedelic Where "experimenting with drugs" eventually became a high-minded way of saying "doing drugs," these early psychedelic trials more or less resembled actual experiments.
In the first act, which covers the period from Johnson's State of the Union address in January 1965 to his signing of the Voting Rights Act that August, we've seen the 143th president as a forceful, crude, high-minded, lowdown political realist who knows how to ram his will through Congress.
And by declaring that "the world must be made safe for democracy" in 1917, Wilson articulated how the American people, from World War I to Iraq, would prefer to imagine their military incursions abroad: as high-minded acts of pure altruism, imbued with benevolence and devoid of mercenary self-interest.
Mary-Kay Wilmers's new book, "Human Relations and Other Difficulties," is a selection of her essays and book reviews, most of them published in The London Review of Books, the sure-footed and high-minded biweekly paper she co-founded in 1979 and has presided over as sole editor since 1992.
Mary-Kay Wilmers's new book, "Human Relations and Other Difficulties," is a selection of her essays and book reviews, most of them published in The London Review of Books, the sure-footed and high-minded biweekly paper she co-founded in 1979 and has presided over as sole editor since 1992.
A movie embraced by both the popcorn masses and the most high-minded academics (the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has developed a veritable body of literature on it), the Wachowskis' surprise hit of 1999 turns 20 this year, though its ideas and its bullet-time photography still feel cutting edge.
A movie embraced by both the popcorn masses and the most high-minded academics (the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has developed a veritable body of literature on it), the Wachowskis' surprise hit of 1999 turns 20 this year, though its ideas and its bullet-time photography still feel cutting edge.
Rather, they had deceived themselves into seeing half-baked intelligence as affirming their desire for war, and then had sold this to the American people as their casus belli, when in fact it was secondary to their more high-minded and ideological mission that would have been too difficult to explain.
Even if high-minded HBO subscribers despise "The Big Bang Theory" and don't have kids clamoring for "Sesame Street" or DC comic book-themed movies and shows, there's probably something in the 10,000 hours of content, including 50 new original series by 2021, that a consumer will want for no additional cost.
Still, over a long career during which she wrote dozens of plays, many of which she directed herself, and fostered the high-minded idea of the sovereign playwright by producing experimental plays and teaching a generation of younger playwrights, Ms. Fornés gained a reputation within the theater world as an underrecognized genius.
It was then that unexpected riots over lack of food and fuel by thousands of people in the imperial capital of Petrograd and the ensuing mutiny by garrison troops compelled Czar Nicholas II to abdicate, ending 300 years of Romanov rule and handing political authority to a group of high-minded liberal figures.
INDIO, California — Coachella has become a punching bag of sorts among high-minded, Pitchfork-reading music fans for several reasons: its wealth of flower headbands, a lineup that's almost identical to a handful of others, and, primarily, for becoming so big and mainstream that it's no longer a place to discover exciting new acts.
This Grand Cross, as astrologers call it (because if you drew lines between the planets, it would literally make a cross shape), involves a battle between the sun and Venus in flirty, flighty Gemini versus uptight Saturn in high-minded Sagittarius; plus, a showdown between go-getter Jupiter in Virgo and worrywart Neptune in Pisces.
Eisenberg had embraced the counterculture of the '60s, marching against the Vietnam War, experimenting with drugs and in general living a life of high-minded dissipation; Shawn was a liberal centrist who had revered President Kennedy and still wore the same kind of Brooks Brothers jackets his mother dressed him in as a child.
Yet, in 10 novels written by the British journalist Martin Walker, Bruno's real enemies have not been the conventional wrongdoers so much as the high-minded bureaucrats who threaten a way of life that for centuries has made this corner of France one of the more pleasant, genial places on earth to call home.
In the speech, Obama offered high-minded reasons to not simply emulate the GOP's politics of irrationalism, but the more ground-level reality is that Democrats' more diverse coalition simply can't be mobilized with simplistic appeals to group threat in the same way because its various members do not necessarily share a clear social identity.
A company like Apple that thinks nothing of investing money in environmental or accessibility initiatives would never dream of taking a similarly high-minded attitude toward labor issues, even though it obviously could make Apple Store retail employees as well-paid as any manufacturing worker from the "good old days" if it wanted to.
With the release of his memoir this week and a set of high-profile media interviews to publicize it, Mr. Comey — whose firing by President Trump made him a hero to the president's critics — has veered onto risky terrain, shedding the trappings of a high-minded referee and looking instead like a combatant in the country's partisan battles.
The high-minded rhetoric and committed activism of the Civil Rights Movement, morphing into the Anti-Vietnam War Movement, all the rallies, marches and demonstrations, all the songs that became the backdrop of my life — before, during and after adolescence — gave me hope that a new, just, and caring United States was just around the corner.
Like other talking points at the forum, where many participants get more excited about the satellite parties that take place in the Alpine resort in the evenings than the high-minded panel sessions, gender equality can sound a lot like another box to tick, something that companies need to work on in the name of progress.
The bank said plaintiffs' experts reached absurd conclusions when they tried to calculate the "value" of Goldman's high-minded expressions of its principles, assessing that in November 2008, in the teeth of the economic meltdown, no less than 70 percent of Goldman's market capitalization was attributable to investors' unwarranted reliance on Goldman's vague promises about its client focus.
Still, I was attracted partly to the job itself (GQ Russia, owned by Condé Nast, combined the swagger of the American GQ with the highminded gloss of Vanity Fair), partly to the chance to give my infant daughter a native fluency in Russian and partly to the prospect of social change that hung in the Moscow air.
If you don't vote due to whatever high-minded justification or intelligent-sounding reason, it's no different than not voting because you don't give a shit, and the result will be the same: The country will continue to be run by the same graying greedheads who brought us the Iraq War, the 2008 financial crisis, and climate change paralysis.
But the other actors feel like they're stuck in two different movies: one is a high-minded drama trying to explain the vast overreach of the NSA's wiretapping operation, while the other is a popcorn-y, would-be spy thriller that wants to hang names like PRISM and XKeyscore on a catchy hook for mainstream audience.
" Vijay Prashad, author, journalist, and director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, told me that, as a Marxist, he understands that "liberalism and other forms of political thought are not able to manage the contradiction between their high-minded ideals and the policies that they produce (namely, policies that consolidate and propagate private property over human needs).
It's been barely nine months since the horrifying images of a truckload of asphyxiated refugees found baking in the summer heat on the side of a highway southeast of Vienna prompted German and Austrian leaders to open their borders and issue high-minded assertions that their countries could absorb far more refugees than they had been.
LONDON — For all the high-minded talk of sovereignty and the political urgency of issues like immigration, Britain's looming decision on whether to remain a member of the European Union is as much as anything the result of a bitter split within the governing Conservative Party over the country's relationship with the Continent and its place in the world.
From the moment Mr. Romney delivered it in a speech on Thursday from Salt Lake City, his entreaty to voters struck many in the party as high-minded and impractical: He all but begged them to vote for Mr. Trump's rivals, thereby denying Mr. Trump enough delegates to clinch the nomination and force a contested convention this summer.
By including a hand-dyed tapestry, "Untitled (Tapete)" (2015), in the same show with a piece made from two wooden fan blades ("Kitty-Cornered," 2015) and a layered wall piece of cut wood ("Parcheesi," 2016), Clippinger dissolves the distinction between the well-trained artisan and the novice carpenter, and between high-minded geometric art and children's games.
And therein lies the oddity: If you actually experienced these worlds, and contrasted them with the normal world of high-minded liberal secularism, it was the charismatic-religious and "health food" regions where people were the most personally empirical, least inclined to meekly submit to authority, and most determined to reason independently and keep trying things until they worked.
Here's a preview of Andrew's column on Davos and Mr. Trump, assuming that the president will still leave Washington for the Swiss Alps: It is both speed-dating at high altitude for the cognoscenti and a cerebral high-minded affair filled with panel conversations around issues such as gender diversity, harassment, artificial intelligence and the environment.
High-minded and highhanded, Wilson used his unrivaled influence as leader of the emerging American power to force the creation of the League of Nations, while deferring to France in drafting the punitive Versailles Treaty in what his own secretary of state called a "victor's peace" that would breed resentment in Germany leading to another world war.
Last week, as Trump raged against the disintegration of his campaign— threatening lawsuits against his accusers, conjuring the image of a conspiracy of international bankers against him, readying his supporters to reject a loss at the ballot box—I spoke to Kaine by phone and asked if his high-minded forecasts of coöperation will look naïve.
That contrast was perfect, and got better still when Klobuchar chimed in, because what the two women said brilliantly cast them not as trailblazers who had something extra to prove, not as outsiders who had finagled a way in, not as underdogs urging voters to take some extraordinary leap of faith, not as high-minded gambles.
Addressing his first muse, the priestly, anti-modern, charismatic poet Stefan George, in 1931, when Nazi barbarism was already exposing the obsolescence of his own high-minded intellectual conservatism, Kantorowicz remarked that while his earlier politics had involved "swimming against the current," the current itself had now "crazily" switched direction, and others were swimming straight past him.
At a time when President Trump is lashing out at friend and foe, and when the macho politics of strongmen is resurgent from Moscow to Manila, when not just the European Union but high-minded Western values, free trade and security alliances are under attack, the two women might have worked together to defend the liberal global order.
There is a widely held belief at the State Department that Mr. Trump wants his foreign policy conducted in such a way that the so-called soft power missions undertaken in the past to brighten the image of the United States abroad — providing foreign aid, accepting refugees, speaking about high-minded values — will be eliminated or slashed.
Mr Weyl's healthy federation of platforms, like the mostly amiable and high minded United Federation of Planets which is responsible for the USS Enterprise, is a hope, not a certainty—one that needs an engaged political process to bring it into being if it is to set off in search of new life, and new civilisation. ■
The tagline for the new ad campaign, "Whatever makes you whole," helps consumers understand that you'll never find true happiness outside of perhaps buying food from a brightly lit store scientifically designed to make you feel like an ethical person, wrapped ever so warmly in the glow of high-minded nourishment and spiritual purity, focus group tested and peer approved.
"Facebook is basically saying we're going to pretend this is a high-minded decision and we're going to stick by it because we'd rather take the hit for the next few weeks or months on this policy until everyone burns out on it than take the hit for years every time an ad with clear falsehoods makes it through the filter," Vaidhyanathan said.
Whether you care about space for high-minded reasons — you think that exploring the universe is the highest purpose of humanity — or for more practical ones (you believe, like Musk does, that we need a backup plan in case the Earth goes to pot), the news that someone is finally pouring resources and ingenuity into a big extraplanetary goal should warm your heart.
The first is a rejection of its final premise: Trump has indeed hurt vulnerable people, but between the leaven of incompetence in his cruelty, his rejection of some of the disastrous ambitions of his predecessors and a certain amount of fool's luck, his administration is arguably responsible for fewer human tragedies so far than more high-minded, less personally degraded presidencies.
In Monday's speech, Mr. de Blasio appeared content to offer repackaged or slightly expanded versions of programs that have thus far defined his administration, demonstrating the shift in a mayor who once saw himself as a promoter of high-minded ideas and a national progressive leader but has repeatedly encountered limitations in the day-to-day grind of running a big city.
Meanwhile, at least some of those Northern liberal abolitionists—including the likes of Henry Adams and the well-meaning Horace Greeley—managed, in the way of high-minded reformers, to let their pieties get the better of their priorities: recoiling against the apparent improprieties of the pro-suffrage Grant Administration, they made common cause with the Democrats who were ending democracy in the South.
But maybe it's very lame to pose as a high-minded film critic one minute and then fawn over the fifth iteration of some dumb Hollywood comic book franchise the next, and tell yourself you're doing it for the good of the industry, or that something idiotic should be praised because it "achieves its goals," and doesn't try to be more than it is.
"What I became very conscious of was that there are these two levels of discourse about sex, this high-minded academic discourse, which is about re-evaluating gender, challenging the patriarchy, focusing on consent and sexual assault, and underneath it is this porn thing, which is full of old stereotypes; weird, racially charged fantasies; women objectified down to a single body part," he said.
"It was pretty challenging and despite all of the high-minded principles it was actually really difficult to get practical things done on a day-to-day basis," Suleyman told the FT. Suleyman worked with the UN, the US government, and ShellFollowing his stint in politics, Suleyman helped to cofound a consultancy called Reos Partners, which aims to help drive change on global issues like food production, waste, and diversity.
In "Locking Up Our Own," James Forman Jr. explains how and why an influx of black "firsts" took the municipal reins of government after the civil rights movement only to unleash the brutal power of the criminal justice system on their constituents; in "A Colony in a Nation," Chris Hayes shows that throughout American history, freedom — despite all the high-minded ideals — has often entailed the subjugation of another.
"Oh Bejeweled Realm" satirizes the pretensions of both Iran's Westernizing regime and its middle-class intellectuals: Tomorrow I can, In the backroom of Khachick's shop, Snort a few grams of some of the purest stuff, Swill a few glasses of mixed-up Pepsi-Cola, Give out a few oh Gods, and Hallelujahs, haw-haws, aha-aha-aha, And formally join the ranks of high-minded thinkers and an asinine Enlightenment.
The two African bodies previously most involved, the African Union (AU) and the Southern African Development Community (SADC), a 15-country regional club led by South Africa, are sure to make high-minded noises, but their readiness in the past to whitewash Zimbabwe's rigged elections and to wink at the violence and deceit that kept Mr Mugabe in power for so long give no comfort to Zimbabwe's battered opposition or to its benighted citizens.
But while it's possible that a Bourbon Restoration scenario awaits, in which our overclass learns nothing and forgets nothing during the Trumpian disruption, there is something mildly encouraging in the willingness of Merkel's competitors in the political center, not just on the extreme right, to act as though they've learned lessons from her high-minded blunder, and to campaign and negotiate as if the public's opinions about migration policy should actually prevail.
For much of the campaign, he's seemed acutely aware of his crusade's likely limitations — aware that Hillary is regarded very warmly by her party even if independents are more skeptical, aware that most of his voters will be not only willing but eager to vote for her in November, and aware that if his campaign seems more anti-Hillary than it is high-minded, he could lose the very thing that many liberals like about him.
Critics of neoconservatism might argue that this preoccupation with ideological purity has also contributed to its policy failings — that in the runup to invading Iraq, neoconservatives were more focused on high-minded arguments about democracy promotion and the nature of Arab autocracy than they were on the nitty-gritty of Iraqi sectarian politics or post-conflict reconstruction; that after Iraq collapsed, neoconservatives remained too committed to their ideals to ask whether some of those ideals had led them astray.
This isn't just extended self-regard: The author's formative years coincided with a tectonic shift in the cultural landscape — as established ideas of what art should be (autonomous, high-minded) ground against the emerging priorities of the new, more media-oriented art world — leaving Salle with the sense that, from then on, art would have to "earn its keep in the cultural marketplace" just like the literary novel or contemporary classical music would have to do.

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