Sentences with 'lofty'
Example sentences and phrases with the word lofty and other words derived from it.
• « For example, during the heyday of European imperialism, lofty notions of the civilising mission, the culmination of 19th century liberal and nationalist political aspirations and the rise of truly modern science coincided with the bloody plunder of overseas territories. »
• « The theory of polygenism codified racism, giving the notion of black inferiority the lofty mantle of science. A popular proponent of the idea postulated that blacks occupied a place in evolution between the Greeks and the chimpanzees. »