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• s  pretentiously elegant
  a high-toned restaurant

• Evening is, to borrow an antique movie company slogan, "In The Tradition of Quality," which in olden times meant adaptations of high-toned popular fiction.
• A Victorian monster of iron and glass, surrounded by gardens full of melancholy statuary, the Palace had been since 1854 London's high-toned version of Coney Island.
• The Captain populates his island with all kinds of high-toned people, whom he transports to his hideaway at "Latitude Zero" (i.

• high-class

News & Articles

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• It’s stacking up as grrreat book battle
  Now it’s a fight. The scholars-vs.-bookworms battle over the future of the main branch of the New York Public Library has already raged for more than a year in high-toned op-eds and essays, and now it’s spilling over into the courts. A group of academics and preservationists...
  July 5, 2013 - New York Post
• Battle for future of the New York Public Library hits the courts
  Now it’s a fight. The scholars-vs-bookworms battle over the future of the main branch of the New York Public Library has already raged for more than a year in high-toned op-eds and essays, and now it’s spilling over into the courts. A group of academics and preservationists has...
  July 4, 2013 - New York Post

Quotes

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• Ralph Friedgen in Washington Post
  He hasn't had to use his voice [because Florida uses silent counts] and he has this high-toned voice that I don't think you can have here with 80,000 people,Friedgen said. "Today he got a little deeper with it."