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Moreover, the circulation of physical and material culture of skulls between the metropolitan and colonial worlds proliferated and involved both high-minded ideologues and popular pamphleteers.
Such individuals were also involved in other high-minded societies that required both a certain class background and also high educational qualification for membership.
This motive competes with other high-minded concerns, so judges sometimes acquiesce to the moral problem presented by a borderline case.
Yet naive high-minded criticism of this sort misses the point.
Simultaneously, composers found that they were being held to task by high-minded critics for producing low (that is, entertaining) music.
But take a more careful look at the high-minded talk about virtue.
His ingestion of the herb that precipitated the outburst was completely unobjectionable given the safety precautions he was taking and given his high-minded reasons for ingesting the herb.
The goods of the poor were secured and inventoried, and master and mistress installed, and high-minded rules provided supervision of inmates and gentle treatment of the elderly.
They are admirable individuals—generous, high-minded, honest—but they are prepared to do things which as individuals they would turn away from with abhorrence.
That is clear, so let us not have too much high-minded talk about consultation.
By and large, civil servants are high-minded and honourable men.
There is nothing high-minded about it—nothing at all.
The commission will pursue high-minded ideals and will enable projects to take place which will be of pride to generations to come.
There was a time when people joined the public utilities out of a sense of service, and there was something rather high-minded about that.
Who were these high-minded people to whom the country owes a debt of gratitude it will never be able to repay?
