21. Mountains and steep cliffs that rise loftily out of the Ligurian Sea in the most northerly part of the Western Mediterranean. 22. This allows the president to perform his dignified-statesman routine, loftily declining to engage in " politics ." 23. In 1952, Dwight Eisenhower refused to tear down elements of the New Deal and spoke loftily about retooling the Republican Party. 24. And suddenly W ., who had been loftily promising to restore civility to politics, seems like Slashing, Opportunistic Guy. 25. To put off reporters, he loftily proclaimed, " The pope is worried over peace in the world ." 26. "The world already knows what I am, " he loftily informs Nicholas, " and I do n 27. He heads off to London to sell his magnum opus and loftily invites a leading publisher to buy it for a thousand guineas. 28. With loftily arched eyebrows and imperial pouts, potential buyers press against the red velvet ropes for a closer look at their quarry. 29. Gerald and Sarah Murphy, the socialite friends of F . Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, loftily declared that living well was the best revenge. 30. House Speaker Newt Gingrich cited a higher partisan purpose : " We are trying to accomplish strategic things, " he said loftily .