But the performances in the second half occupied an altogether loftier plane.

But once the door bangs shut, the clue-sniffing reader finds himself on a swift elevator to a loftier plane.

I hear rather constant complaints about him operating on a more lofty plane rather than being actively engaged in the day-to-day work of the library.

Not that all the conversations we share are on such a lofty plane.

At last the race proposed to itself once more its ancient project of re-making human nature upon a loftier plane.

Ducard offers Bruce a chance to be, as he says, a legend, putting everlasting goodness and fame on the same lofty plane.

"Well, we need to keep our friendship on a loftier plane anyway," she said.

He is careful to shy away from the immigration issue, pitching his cool Cassandra tone to a lofty moral plane.

More than ever, one appreciated the lofty esthetic plane that distinguishes Balanchine from his contemporaries.

Yet these are also works in which Beethoven looks backward, though from a lofty plane.