high-minded

Modifies a noun

• man: They often made themselves small and contemptible before God and all high-minded men, by their squabbles over things of no importance.
• ideal: Nasty practical science that we really wish we didn't have to tolerate, pitted against high-minded ethical ideals.
• woman: Pauline was rich, and she was a high-minded woman.
• rhetoric: Concealment Hide and Seek - conceal real objectives in high-minded rhetoric or a mass of technical data and extraneous detail.
• equivalent: And being on the right side of history has always been deeply attractive to intellectuals since it represents the high-minded equivalent of being âcoolâ .
• approach: The appropriation of instantly recognizable images from the Renaissance or from ancient Greece and Rome immediately proclaims Dixon's serious, high-minded approach.

Modifying Another Word

• not: The framework is not high-minded, but is meaningful, practical and has helped many organizations become successful.
• so: If the thought behind The Concert Of The Present is not always so high-minded, it most certainly should be.
• too: At times, Winter's analysis of grief and commemoration seems too high-minded and generous for its subject.
• relentlessly: So was there a Newsnight golden age when all items were pure, serious and relentlessly high-minded?

Used with adjective complement

sound: It might sound high-minded, but as a practical matter, it requires marketers to change their behavior, and this is not easy.