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• r  in a lofty manner
  she bore herself loftily

• After breaking off diplomatic relations with the Portuguese in 1955, Nehru declared loftily: "History will remove them.
• Hitherto Congress has loftily insisted that the separatist talk is merely a threat which would not be strongly supported among India's great 80,000,000 Moslem minority.
• Out of a thorough steeping in Hawthorne's Notebooks and in his journalistic work, which James and many others have loftily disregarded or deplored, and in family records and .

News & Articles

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• Sweet Verse: 'House of the Poet' is Built Around 'Dreaming, Living, Dying'
  Photo via Architizer We all get a little carried away sometimes. When it comes to describing houses, this often takes the form of over-enthused brokerbabble, but, occasionally, architects themselves explain their structures in language so loftily-wrought that it transcends...
  Jan. 2, 2014 - Curbed

Quotes

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• John Updike in San Francisco Chronicle
  Resplendently poetic and loftily sorrowing,Updike calls the book, which tells the story of a man, born in San Francisco in 1871, who ages in reverse.