Not some lofty concern about other people's privacy, although she liked to think she was giving that at least some consideration; except for Kyle, she'd refrained from giving in to temptation, staying out of the minds of others she knew personally.

But Grand Magasin have rather less lofty concerns as they present their latest take on the minutiae of daily life.

They expand the consciousness to the point of bursting, but feel no obligation to raise the consciousness, elevate it to lofty concerns.

As the Leader of The Chosen his mind should have been grappling with more lofty concerns; matters of great moment, not the doubtful pleasures of the flesh.

This debate, of course, will not be confined to lofty constitutional concerns.

In the U.S. Department of State and in diplomatic circles elsewhere, however, loftier concerns are the order of the day.

Besides, surely New Jerseyans have loftier concerns than their cars.

Before I could magically remove myself into the body of a man who deals with more lofty concerns, my 3-year-old son was on the line.

Laurence Collins of The Boston Globe summarized the term as "a label that connotes an absence of lofty philosophical concerns in favor of a concern for people's more basic needs".

But for Nicholas Gage, the author of a relentless post-mortem on this grand passion, lofty concerns still played an all too important role.