How to Use high-minded in a Sentence

high-minded

adjective
  • Jay Kelly is much more high-minded fare.
    — Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Santos has high-minded aims for himself, and the team at-large.
    — The Enquirer, 21 Feb. 2023
  • From the start, then, his work was high-minded and cross-disciplinary.
    — Brandon Sanchez, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2024
  • If that’s you, feel free to set aside this review and move on to more high-minded pursuits.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
  • And where are all those high-minded young people for whom ideals are everything.
    — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Whether your style leans casual or high-minded, these just-in dresses have all the makings of hero pieces.
    — Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 26 Feb. 2025
  • But those awards joined wins for shows and performers who never had a shot with the more high-minded Emmys.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
  • And a country that doesn’t see itself as a beacon will care less about acting high-minded toward others.
    — Andreas Kluth, The Mercury News, 25 June 2024
  • Other times, however, wartime tax resistance has been less high-minded.
    — Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • In government, Orbán could be composed and high-minded.
    — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Smith leaves room for disagreement and still maintains her high-minded humanistic ideas.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The opera offers a look at how the Civil War ended with high-minded statesmanship.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • In fact, all that high-minded thinking sounds more like how some bloodless and very smart computer might happily spend the livelong day.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
  • Was the thinking behind the decision so high-minded, though, back in 1890?
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Because Jesus and his high-minded teachings have demanded too much from humankind.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Mia’s report is a pitch-perfect clone of a tacky, exploitative news story masquerading as something more earnest and high-minded.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
  • One goes to Cannes to see the highest of high-minded cinema, bold and searing visions from the world’s foremost auteurs.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 17 May 2026
  • Guests that can be at times controversial or somewhat high-minded or really reflective, right?
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Others demonstrating outside the courthouse were less high-minded in their commentary.
    — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But for all the high-minded idealism, OpenAI has also had its share of scandals.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 22 May 2024
  • The high-minded aims underlying the action have kept things churning, despite the flaws, for more than 230 years.
    — Wes Moss, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Bringing people together in high-minded community is the task of folk music.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Yet even the most high-minded forms still include a surprising amount of straw-manning and motivated reasoning.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Hepburn was enamored with the high-minded Ferrer, though some saw him as a puppet master and opportunist.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 15 May 2026
  • Amid the high-minded feminist articles, the pages are a spectacle of schlongs, and the series delivered all of it with a wink.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2023
  • If that sounds like pretty reasonable, even high-minded after all that has preceded it, rest assured that Allen is not quite done with the tough talk yet.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 26 Oct. 2025
  • There’s potential for a real critique, which applies to both trashy true-crime and more high-minded investigations.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 12 June 2023
  • But Newsom’s pledge seemed less high-minded and noble than impulsive and calculated.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Most are not the high-minded, American-democracy-would-cease-to-exist-if-not-for-my-favorite-amendment kind of laws.
    — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Your urge to acquire knowledge is growing as the Moon alights in your high-minded 9th house, giving you a thirst for something new and exotic.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 12 Mar. 2024

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