high-minded

If the last election showed anything, it’s that high-minded principles, like standing up for democratic norms, are less important to many voters than, say, the cost of gasoline and groceries.

For generations of attorneys, he has personified courage against long odds and the high-minded practice of law in service of social good.

Delegates might start with high-minded rhetoric about coming together and getting along, but they would swiftly pivot to attacking people for perceived differences, usually with weird conspiracy theories.

He suffered fools badly, and saw his articles as part of a high-minded battle of ideas.

That latter frame is how the media and political elites have defined it all along, and that supposedly high-minded has only served to enable and empower judicial tyranny.