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het klinkt hoogdravend?

English

it sounds pompous?

Last Update: 2018-02-13
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het is een ambitieus maar ook hoogdravend stuk geworden.

English

the ensuing document is both ambitious and bombastic.

Last Update: 2012-02-29
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jullie die de kerken vullen, zo hoogdravend en zo trots.

English

you who fill the churches, so pompous and so proud.

Last Update: 2018-02-13
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u zegt zo hoogdravend dat er een europese grondwet wordt uitgevaardigd.

English

you announce pompously that a european constitution is being launched.

Last Update: 2012-02-29
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misschien was ik te hoogdravend bezig door te willen schrijven en schilderen.

English

maybe i asked too much of myself by wanting to write and to paint.

Last Update: 2018-02-13
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primaire motivatie, al klinkt het wat hoogdravend: het dienen van de mensheid.

English

always with the primary intention of serving the highest good of all.

Last Update: 2018-02-13
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dit alles over de verlichting mag hoogdravend klinken, maar ik neem de intellectuele beweging serieus.

English

all of this talk about the enlightenment may sound highflying, but i take the intellectual movement seriously.

Last Update: 2018-02-13
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mijnheer de voorzitter, het is zinloos zich tijdens een drugsdebat te verliezen in hoogdravend moralisme.

English

mr president, it is useless to take the moral high ground when debating about drugs.

Last Update: 2012-02-29
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vrouwen ervaren de besluitvorming in de europese unie vaak als te ver weg, te abstract en te hoogdravend.

English

women often see eu decision-making as too distant, abstract and highfalutin.

Last Update: 2012-02-29
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ik denk dat op die hoogdravende voorstelling van zaken wel wat af te dingen valt.

English

i think that we need to set our sights slightly lower than this ambitious presentation.

Last Update: 2012-02-29
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