Loftily, he had expected a hand-picked selection of reporters to fall on their knees at the idea of receiving an invitation and sit like ornaments in the room.
It's one of the earliest daisies in the gardening calendar and its gold flowers, held loftily above a carpet of leaves, add a bolder dimension to the woodland floor.
It's a company that has shown little or no regard for any established business norms, or what we might loftily call business ethics, or for plain old decent behaviour.
The reality of airborne environments, suspended loftily above, amid clouds, has always inhabited our dreams but always exceeded the scope of present technologies, until the twentieth century.