How To Use Grandeur In A Sentence

The orchestral arrangements added fresh layers of drama and grandeur to her already baroque style. Times, Sunday Times
The Catalinas, in all of their grandeur, are going through that process of deformation right now.
Only by crossing the short bridge can you take in its natural grandeur and the maze of streets that make up the medieval town. Times, Sunday Times
But these pleasures are subsidiary to those afforded by James's sensibility, which transforms the squalor and pettiness of crime into the grandeur of desolation.
The historical quaintness described at each river-side town the men pass glorifies the grandeur of a long lost Britain.

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She wants to travel first - class: she must have delusions of grandeur.
But it's all kept very low key with no rock-star nonsense by surf-celebrator Malloy, whose stylish documentary elevates all of the tour's nuances Endless Summer-style, with human moments outweighing grandeur and without the bro-chatter of the latter. Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Reviews: Jack Johnson, R.E.M., Train, Dolly, Carly, and More, Plus U2 Plays The Rose Bowl, and This Week's New Albums
And when the silent darkness enveloped all this beauty, and grandeur, and magnificence in undistinguishable gloom, my mind experienced that wonderful sense of freedom and relief which come from all that suggests the idea of boundlessness -- the deep sky, the dark night, the endless circle, the illimitable waters. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada
These may not address their Majesties, but they may stare; nor will it be contested that the attentive circular eyes of the humble domestic creatures are an embellishment to Royal pomp and grandeur, such truly as should one day gain for them an inweaving and figurement -- in the place of bees, ermine tufts, and their various present decorations -- upon the august great robes back-flowing and foaming over the gaspy page-boys. The Egoist
The other approach is to bless a lowly subject, such as the life and times of a clockmaker, with the grandeur and solemnity of an epic.
It has the grandeur of a true epic, a thrilling, if flawed hero, momentous political struggles, bravery, love and death.
The grandeur is tempered by contemporary touches: sofas are vibrant velvet and walls are decked with modern artworks. Times, Sunday Times
She was overcome by the beauty and grandeur of the Assembly. Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France
Those songs are so full of life and spirit here, it's impossible not to be swept up in their grandeur and occasional sadness and desolation.
Equally, if Stringer was lost for any period of time then you could park any notions of grandeur until he returned.
But both terms ascribe a kind of grandeur to the Bush proposal that it lacks. John McQuaid: It's Neither a Surge Nor an Escalation
Again royalty gathered in grandeur, with trumpets blaring, to witness the baptism of Henry's daughter, Elizabeth.
With a poem named "Europe," we should scarcely expect for a frontispiece the Ancient of Days, in unapproached grandeur, setting his "compass upon the face of the Earth," -- a vision revealed to the designer at the top of his own staircase. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864
[11] But in this instance, perhaps, distance of space, combined with the unrivalled grandeur of the war, was felt to equiponderate the distance of time, Susa, the Persian capital, being fourteen hundred miles from Athens. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater
Grandeur in appearance now that it had been smartened up, I desperately tried to avoid it.
It's impossible not to be awed by the grandeur of temples and throne rooms of a country still in love with its benevolent monarchy.
And Casey stood a-watching it in haughty grandeur there. Poetry Friday
Despite its size and grandeur, the chalet is cosy and harmonious inside, and appears much older than its five years. Times, Sunday Times
One thing you don't get with his pastel portraits is grandeur. Times, Sunday Times
It was just like a Hollywood movie and it was something that people in England have not seen for a long time and I don't think that anybody had had that kind of panoply of grandeur. CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2005
The grandeur of the architecture has faded only slightly from the neglect of the communist years.
The only hint of grandeur comes from the seal just below the two microphones, the crest of the President of the United States. Barack Obama's down but not out
Even her husband, it is said, upon whose fortunes her talents and address had produced such emphatic influence, regarded her with respectful awe rather than confiding attachment; and report said, there were times when he considered his grandeur as dearly purchased at the expense of domestic thraldom. The Bride of Lammermoor
Also, the imposing grandeur of classical architecture, especially buildings based on prototypes from imperial Rome, suited the nationalist temper of the times.
And he really enjoyed the glory and grandeur, you know, of being treated like a head of state.
We wanted to discover life itself, in all its grandeur and beauty. Times, Sunday Times
Castings with a pedestal of ebony or mahogany add grandeur to the commission.
indeed, in its orotund grandiosity, its declamatory incoherence, its choliambic grandeur, and its unedited seediness, it threatens to leave me fixed here in speechlessness, gaping. Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction. Moby Dick; or the Whale
The lyrical grandeur of his language covers every known figure of speech from metaphor to simile, hyperbole to hendiadys.
Taylor understands the idiom quite perfectly and he manages to bring a grandeur and nobility to the admittedly slight work.
Despite the dust and cobwebs the grandeur was unmistakable. Times, Sunday Times
There are admirers of rugged grandeur who are content merely to survey the scene from easy points of vantage.
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
While they employ neither the soaring grandeur of Sigur Rós nor the elfin idiosyncrasy of Björk, the music of the Múm quartet is unequivocally Icelandic.
They're too tongue-in-cheek, too savvy and intelligent to be discounted as amateurs, yet sophomoric enough to not buckle to pretentiousness and delusions of grandeur.
With the leap to exterior grandeur from the 1870s went a new concentration on the magnificence of the interior arrangements of stations.
In spite of the serious and even tragic cast of the plot, the use of spoken dialogue compels us to class 'Les Deux Journées' as an opéra comique; and the same rule applies to 'Médée,' Cherubini's finest work, an opera which for dignity of thought and grandeur of expression deserves to rank high among the productions of the period. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
Some of Payne's photos have shades of creepiness: the barbed wire surrounding a turreted building or the cold grandeur of a crumbling marble staircase. Where Patients Once Sought Asylum - Culture - The Atlantic
To argue that solutions only demean the grandeur of human ignorance?
While he is unsparing in his descriptions of the muddle, indecision and plain deceit in the preparation and conduct of the rising, he does communicate something of the small-scale grandeur of it all.
Flags waved and the rain held as thousands of people enjoyed the concert and fireworks in front of the lake and grandeur of Bowood House.
Perhaps its grandeur renders it effectively invisible. The Times Literary Supplement
Even if social analysis is something which everyone does, those who engage in it professionally are still tempted by delusions of grandeur.
Perhaps its grandeur renders it effectively invisible. The Times Literary Supplement
At times, Coughlin has exhibited what might be interpreted as delusions of grandeur.
The grandeur of the fights escalates steadily until, in the movie's final sequence, the Big Bad attacks Zen with wave after wave of apparently limitless henchmen in a blood-soaked battle that moves from a restaurant to a training hall to the facade of a seedy motel, which gives plenty of opportunity for bone-crunching multistory plummets. Archive 2009-07-01
My mother grew up in a house of spectacular grandeur. Times, Sunday Times
He used the grandeur of a decorative, classicizing composition but did not archaize the scene by putting the women in identifiably regional clothing.
Victoire foulant aux pieds des armes brisées avecque la légende et l'exergue, et répond de la fracture des coins jusqu'à la concurrence de vingt quatre médailles, dont j'en fourniray une en or à mes frais et dépend (le diamètre de la médaille sera de la grandeur de vingt-quatre lignes). The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
Let us remember, in our judgment of what may appear to us even grave errors of opinion in the book, that its author has fought for every step of ground that has been gained of late years by spiritual religion in Germany; and, while we lament the "dimness" which this great man confesses with such Christian-like humility, let us acknowledge the grandeur of his idea of the kingdom of God, and the earnestness of his devotion to it. The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.
It has gone from sovereign power through imperial grandeur, to family of the nation and welfare monarchy defined by good works. Times, Sunday Times
Lake Ahquabi, where I did all my formative swimming and sunburning, may not have the romance of Cape Cod or the grandeur of the rockribbed coast of Maine, but then neither did it grab you by the legs and carry you off helplessly to Newfoundland. I'm A Stranger Here Myself
Yet, within the civic grandeur of an important ‘community’ space, patrons are able to explore the wonders of a library.
Choose between smallness and grandeur, between nothingness and immortality, between him and me!
Its girth and grandeur were just not normal me. Times, Sunday Times
A phantom of air, an abstraction of the dawn and of vesper sun-lights, a bodiless sylph on the one hand; on the other a gross carnal monster, like the Miltonic Asmodai, "the fleshliest incubus" among the fiends, and yet so far ennobled into interest by his intellectual power, and by the grandeur of misanthropy! Biographical Essays
Nothing, in fact, disturbs the grandeur and solemnity of the Mosaical cosmogony, except (as usual) the ruggedness of the bibliolater. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1
A singer must also know how that soprano blew her audiences away by flawlessly mixing her registers, phrasing with magisterial grandeur, and nuancing her voice with such expressive color.
In the acute excitement stages, when delusions of grandeur, loquacity and hyperactivity prevail, the patients require physical restraint.
Race, gender, appearance, body language, rictal spouses and offspring, even bursts of tragic grandeur, are all subsumed by marketing and "image-making", now magnified by "virtual" technology. Archive 2008-06-01
While the Grand Canyon and Zion have an almost divine grandeur, Bryce feels more mercurial.
The Derby is redolent of tradition and grandeur.
It showed herself, Madeline, Monsieur and Madam Grandeur, and a few other people who worked with the organization, along with their spouses.
A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world; the chaise and four wheeled off with some grandeur, to be sure, but it was a heavy and troublesome business, and she could not easily forget its having stopped two hours at Petty France. Northanger Abbey
There was not even time for his book to be set before the reading public before the poet, poetry editor, and translator was asserting its imperishable grandeur.
Most of these properties are rough after 30 years of neglect, but with some clean up and reconstruction inside, their grandeur is restored. powered by performancing firefox Archive 2007-02-04
Besides, the latter work has the thing hitherto lacking somewhat in the young man's art -- grandeur and severity and ironness of language. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
Though square-rigged sailing ships have just about vanished from our oceans, they have left us present-day sailors with a racial memory of grandeur, power, and beauty.
But where the minds of men, through their native darkness, are disenabled to discern the glory of spiritual things, and, through their carnal, unmortified affection, do cleave unto, and have the highest esteem of, worldly grandeur, it is no wonder if they suppose the beauty and glory of the church to consist in them. The Sermons of John Owen
The organ from "Saint-Roch, Paris IV" 2009 is shown in a 60-by-50-inch print that does justice to its grandeur, the steel pipes, the gilded putto with a viol, the bas-relief angel playing a bagpipe on one side of the supporting balcony and the angel with a keyboard on the other side, and the ornate clock keeping time high on top of it all. Where Man Has His Place
The dew, jewelling a thousand spider-webs, the sparkling brightness of the air, the exquisite purity of the atmosphere, and grandeur of space and loneliness rimmed about by rose-tipped skies and far forget-me-not hills make a magic to catch the heart in a net from which it never quite escapes. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa
With his quiet colours he moderates the dazzle and grandeur found in the still-life pictures of his contemporary, which are as bright as heraldic blazonings.
The peeling frescoes that ornament the living room of a manor house are all that remain to suggest its colonial grandeur.
I have often mentioned the grandeur, but I feel myself unequal to the task of conveying an idea of the beauty and elegance of the scene when the spiry tops of the pines are loaded with ripening seed, and the sun gives a glow to their light-green tinge, which is changing into purple, one tree more or less advanced contrasted with another. Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
It needed only that the seal of martyrdom upon such a life should cause his virtues to be transfigured before us in imperishable grandeur, and his name to be emblazoned with heaven's own light upon that topmost arch of fame, which shall stand when governments and nations fall. Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons
The pomps of the religion, the pageantries of the court, and the munificence of the nobility, were never before characterised by so much grandeur and profusion. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847
While Colorado's mountainous terrain offers innumerable beautiful sights that leave one longing for more and never satiated, its magnitude of awe and grandeur also invoke a humbling effect on mankind.
It divests him of a capacity for grandeur we want our leaders to possess.
Remnants of teaching monasteries, stupas, temples and shrines present a haunting spectacle of lost grandeur and of a vanished civilisation - that of Buddhism in India.
This house is history personified with all its grandeur, mysteries and unravelled secrets.
The irony is that hard-up Paddy's is flush with character, while the ersatz grandeur of malls and the like offer a poorer shopping experience by far.
Besides, the point of the original version's visual extravagance was not to show off; it was to contrast the grandeur of the characters' silly young dreams with the puniness of their old, educated bitterness.
There was no pomp or ceremony from two actors who have probably earned the right to a little grandeur. Times, Sunday Times
That's what we tried to portray in the book, this feeling of opulence and grandeur.
It marries well with the extreme storytelling and characterisation to give the film a flavour of operatic grandeur.
A dhole pack with delusions of grandeur fails to take Mowgli and his wolves into account. Archive 2007-04-01
She is clearly suffering from delusions of grandeur .
To see these now, even in decayed grandeur, is a romantic sight.
Creator symbolled forth here in equal beauty and grandeur? Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
This famous hotel dates back to 1891, when the British frequented it en route to the colonies, and it retains an air of the grandeur of those days.
Et il n'y a ni eu ni menaces, ni allêchement qui ayent sceu esbranler les nobles et libres coeurs besançonnais, pour quicter aucune chose de leurs libertez, quelques couleurs de grandeur et de richesses qu'on leur ayt mis audevant pour se laisser annexer au comté de Bourgogne, et avoir un parlément, et se mettre auxpieds ce qu'il ont aux mains. Holidays in Eastern France
Taken together, "God's Grandeur" is a brilliant Thomist argument about the significance of an atemporal God in a temporal world. Argument in verse
The seaside town of Rhyl was once a Victorian seaside resort of spectacular grandeur. Times, Sunday Times
He is the poet for people who feel the magic of music and the grandeur of imagination, without being able to lay their finger on the more recondite nuances of "creative work," without so much as ever having heard of "imagism. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
It is really the exterior shots and fight sequences which give the film its scope and grandeur.
The long, sweeping drive provides an extra frisson of grandeur. Times, Sunday Times
(Oasis, Ash, The Verve) and recorded in rural Wales, this is a big leap forward for the band and adds the newfound grandeur of string arrangements to their raw 70s pop and pub rock influenced tunes, delivered as ever in thick, near-impenetrable Dundonian accents. VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅
There's no doubting that the might and grandeur of big mountains can make you feel very humble.
Most of its grandeur - all that street furniture of pillars, obelisks and pyramids - is the work of one man: Joze Plecnik, who studied in Prague.
Despite the decay the mosque somehow retained a profound grandeur.
I was still rather impressed by the grandeur and scale of Lambdeth Central.
After 57 years in the job she has learnt how to offset the grandeur of her inherited office with an easy informality. Times, Sunday Times
In the dictionary its meaning is given as lofty, elevated by joy, exalted in character; awakening or expressing an uplifting emotion, producing a sense of elevated beauty, nobility, grandeur, solemnity or awe.
To think this grand tale starts off in a dingy little mailroom is noteworthy to me, because the story sweeps through so many settings of ever-growing grandeur, you have to really appreciate the scope of it all. Fave Five: Horror Novels
There are admirers of rugged grandeur who are content merely to survey the scene from easy points of vantage.
With all its grandeur, the place was blanketed in an age-old sorrow.
Beyond St. Agnes Beacon the coast is largely composed of clay-slates, or killas, presenting much desolate grandeur; the slate showing the jagged scars of its unending resistance to oceanic forces. The Cornwall Coast
There are three possible sources of finance for a garden to match my delusions of grandeur.
Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.
He has so much, grandeur, his appearance is imposing and in general His Divine countenance overflows with heavenly grace and an inexpressible ultramundane beauty.
That's what we tried to portray in the book, this feeling of opulence and grandeur.
Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.
Admire our strategy when we feign indifference to what you call the pleasures of love, pretending even to be far removed from its sweetness, we augment the grandeur of the sacrifice we make for you, by it, we even inspire the gratitude of the authors of the very benefits we receive from them, you are satisfied with the good you do us. Ninon de L'Enclos the Celebrated Beauty of the 17th Century
There is lushness and grandeur to the Moorish castles, a true handcrafted fishing village look to the Viking enclave.
Approaching it from this side you pass through a dense bryanthus-fringed grove of mountain hemlock, catching glimpses now and then of the colossal dome towering to an immense height above the dark evergreens; and when at last you have made your way across woods, wading through azalea and ledum thickets, you step abruptly out of the tree shadows and mossy leafy softness upon a bare porphyry pavement, and behold the dome unveiled in all its grandeur. The Yosemite National Park
In relation to power, it is, like solitude, the open heaven through which the grandeurs of eternity flow into the penetralian recesses of the human heart, after that once the faculties of thought, or the sensibilities, have been powerfully awakened. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
These are neurotically emotional outbursts and chemically induced sensations of grandeur and paranoia.
As Dexter enters manhood, the complex dream in which Judy and her world of social grandeur and illimitability remains with him, while he takes steps to transcend his own limited life, persuading his father to send him east to the Ivy League, where, with a subtle blend of dream and hard-headedness, he acquires the clothes and the mannerisms of Judy's class, while realizing that he can never himself fully enter it. Fitzgerald's 'Radiant World'
With their silvery outlines and flashes of colour, the drawings have a sublime grandeur.
There was no pomp or ceremony from two actors who have probably earned the right to a little grandeur. Times, Sunday Times
His sufferings [De Wette, Stier, Alford, &c.]; that is, "Be not carried off your feet by all this grandeur of Mine, but bear in mind what I have already told you, and now distinctly repeat, that that Sun in whose beams ye now rejoice is soon to set in midnight gloom. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
He crossed the magnificent inner peristylium, the tall, uncut pillars of which, sharply defined against the sky, enhanced its majestic grandeur and its air of mysterious solemnity. "Unto Caesar"
What makes his work memorable is this ability to observe people as they exhibited all their grandeur and flaws.
How often do Phil Spector's epic grandeur, the Velvet Underground's jangly drive and the good-time groove of Northern Soul engage in a convincing ménage à trois on one record?
‘I'm a hillbilly singer with delusions of grandeur,’ Earle says, with a guffaw.
Palaces, with gorgeous façades and triple stories of colonnades, composed street after street, while fountains and statues and propyla, temples, monoliths, andro-sphinxes and crio-sphinxes presented, as I rode along through this superb “City of the Sun,” an endless spectacle of architectural grandeur and marble magnificence. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
She was quick to cotton on to the potential of Mount Stewart's subtropical climate, and having consulted the best available plantsmen set about creating a series of magical outdoor rooms to match the interior grandeur of the house.
Zeno used to invite those who called the haughtiness of Perikles a mere courting of popularity and affectation of grandeur, to court popularity themselves in the same fashion, since the acting of such a part might insensibly mould their dispositions until they resembled that of their model. Plutarch's Lives, Volume I
The problem with Barack Obama is that sometimes he lynches himself, not with the illusions of grandeur regarding legal prowess or being persecuted by The Left (or progressives) like Clarence Thomas (a beneficiary of affirmative action), but by believing that he is a race-neutral figure (because he is "biracial" -) and not openly challenging racists and racist socioeconomic/political systems. Question for Barack Obama: Do You Feel the Noose Tightening?
In saluting his life of violence, exile and running, there is the satisfaction of heroism and human grandeur, an athletic and aesthetic pleasure, something exalted and defiant about his refusal to serve.
He has nothing more for you, nor you for him; but he may be rich in juices wherewithal to nourish the heart of another man, and their two lives, set together, may have an endosmose and exosmose whose result shall be richness of soil, grandeur of growth, beauty of foliage, and perfectness of fruit; while you and he would only have languished into aridity and a stunted crab-tree. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862
an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art
This accurate sketch of Papal grandeur while a mass is celebrated in the Sixtine Chapel 1578 Archive 2009-03-01
Somewhere in the middle of this sequence I realised that this may be the only American movie since 2001 brave or foolhardy enough to take on – to conflate, even – the infinite and the intimate, the cosmic and the cellular, the extraordinary and the infra-ordinary, all in Malick's habitual spirit of big-hearted, symphonic grandeur, steeped in Whitman, Emerson and Yeats. Is Terrence Malick assuming Stanley Kubrick's mantle?
Afterward, Shah Jahan gazed upon the grandeur of the white marble architectural wonder, his Taj Mahal.
This example of classic tetra conch design with all its miniature size, strikes the viewers with its grandeur and integrity.
With whatever qualifications, it is certainly one of the great English lyrics, and its union of Renaissance sensuousness with grandeur of conception and sureness of expression foretell clearly enough at twenty the poet of 'Paradise Lost.' A History of English Literature
A step below this grandeur are restaurants that middle-class Muscovites enjoy on special occasions.
The apartment block itself looms as large as any of the human characters with it's faded grandeur and slow decline into decay and rot.
The show's searing heartbeat, a bass aria of operatic grandeur. Times, Sunday Times
My mother grew up in a house of spectacular grandeur. Times, Sunday Times
The detached villa sits within mature private gardens approached through a pillared entrance way, which immediately gives the property a sense of grandeur.
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
The fading grandeur of its shops and its Victorian public buildings stands testimony to a golden past but a very uncertain future.
No other ballet so remorselessly exposes the gulf between effulgent grandeur and mere competence. Times, Sunday Times
Above all, from the artistic point of view they have grandeur , majesty , ruggedness, and quaintness.
For sheer scale and grandeur, Leeds Castle in Kent takes some beating.
There were simply stretches of half-glimpsed -residential grandeur, hedged and fenced, pegged out and parceled off. AMAGANSETT
It was evident that the period grandeur of the Museum buildings greatly impressed the youngsters.
In these works of tragic grandeur and flamboyant Romanticism, some sparkling scherzo movements and brilliant finales bring sharp contrasts of mood.
Or is that beneath the grandeur of UNC Law Professors – unlike secret phone call assassinations? VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » “Is That Legal?” admits repressing VDARE.com!
Balanced sonorities and evenness of metre direct listeners on a course of undiminishing grandeur that leads naturally to calmness in repose.
Columns are usually intended in architecture to add grandeur and status.
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
Inside, high ceilings, plaster cornices, marble fireplaces and a pine staircase contribute to its air of grandeur.
_cyprieres_, draped with the silvery _tillandsia_, form a background to the picture with all the grandeur of the pyrogenous granite! The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
Undoubtedly the mens rea(guilty mind) principle that has been established by modern criminal law is a grandeur contribution to humane civilization and it is a monument of criminal law's history.
The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
Upon this object, centred all princely honours; he was by Augustus adopted for his son, assumed Colleague in the Empire, partner in the jurisdiction tribunitial, and presented under all these dignities to the several armies: instances of grandeur which were no longer derived from the secret schemes and plottings of his mother, as in times past, while her husband had unexceptionable heirs of his own, but thenceforth bestowed at her open suit. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
When Diocletian divided authority between the tetrarchs, each of them established a capital in a different region of the empire and embellished it with appropriate grandeur.
If the narrative happened over a longer period of time, the relationship between Yvaine and Tristan could have been better developed; the growth of Tristan from a boy to a man could have been given more attention; the scope and grandeur and just plain oddness of Fairie could have been shown. 10 Reasons Why I Hate the Movie Version of Stardust | Living the Liminal
At this point the faint suggestion you might be a self dramatist is announced sotto voce by the clarinet and the motif gathers to full orchestral grandeur as you proceed. Archive 2007-11-25
If national pride is ever justifiable or excusable it is when it springs, not from power or riches, grandeur of glory, but from convicton of ntational innocence, iformation, and benevolence.
Most of those who fall into this type, straying from the type they began with, are misled by the appearance of grandeur and cannot perceive the tumidity of the style. from the Rhetorica ad Herennium. jeff vandermeer says: Grokking the Subaqueous Consigliere John Clute
Browns is for those who prefer their countryside retreat served up with urban chic rather than ancestral grandeur.
Flying over and through the Grand Canyon offers a unique perspective of its true grandeur.
Some of that picture is true: despite his regal grandeur, Henry was well aware of the flimsiness of the Tudor claim to the throne and was desperate to sire a healthy male heir.
Their subject is always the tragic fate of empire (and of all human endeavor) when pitted against the sublimity and grandeur of nature.
The blend of pathos and grandeur in the image might even be said to do justice to its subject.
So the flaring grandeur gathers, and in one of the most illogical but nevertheless satisfying descriptions, he makes another parallel simile and with the stretching effect of an enjambment, reaches out to crush. God’s Grandeur « Unknowing
He reveals everything about Stevens through his body language: his stiff, servile "invisibility" when waiting on his masters; his pretensions to grandeur expressed in the wave of a cigar while lording it over the understaff; the pathetic way he touches his dying father -- only with the tip of his fingers -- like a snail too terrified to emerge from his shell. The Flowering Of A Late Bloomer
Having come upon the earliest mosques of Cairo, Chateaubriand proclaims not the Muslim caliphs nor their architects to be the origin of Islamic architectural grandeur; rather he romanticizes a legacy stretching back four millennia. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)
For added grandeur, how about a game of croquet on the main lawn? Times, Sunday Times
But unlike the playa poseurs and iced-out bling-bling rappers still living in their parents' basements, this group had no delusions of grandeur when they wrote songs about living the high life.
He is wholly concerned with his own grandeur.
Above them to the left, the Technicolor grandeur of a stained-glass window was fading into black. MORE TALES OF THE CITY
The grandeur of towering pines, the mysterious dimness of illimitable arcades, and the peculiar resinous odor that stole like lingering ghosts of myrrh, frankincense and onycha through the vaulted solitude of a deserted hoary sanctuary, all these phases of primeval Southern forests combined to weave a spell that the stranger could not resist. At the Mercy of Tiberius
It had suited his taste to keep these things in abeyance, and to place his pride in the oaks and elms of his park rather than in any of those appanages of grandeur which a man may carry about with him. He Knew He Was Right
There's no doubting that the might and grandeur of big mountains can make you feel very humble.
Guests will be able to stay in rooms restored to their original grandeur and with splendid views of the park. Times, Sunday Times
Filled with pathos and grandeur, they demand to be seen in the flesh.
He was impressed by its grandeur and the hospitality of the temple authorities.
Three million acres of pristine unspoiled natural grandeur means that one soon runs out of superlatives.
All its designs and efficacy terminate on this side heaven, nor does policy so much as pretend to any more than to be the great art of raising a man to the plenties, glories, and grandeurs of the world. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
Their attempt at grandeur is deeply ironic, however, since they fail to see what the comparison really implies: that the Americans, too, are conquerors and pillagers.
Inside, high ceilings, plaster cornices, marble fireplaces and a pine staircase contribute to its air of grandeur.
It has gone from sovereign power through imperial grandeur, to family of the nation and welfare monarchy defined by good works. Times, Sunday Times
The quaintness and antiqueness of the homely kitchen chimed in with his present feeling; he wanted no display or grandeur. Brought Home
They called it porphyria in the newspaper accounts-delusions of grandeur. IN A STRANGE CITY
It has all the pomp and grandeur of a Roman general marching into war with his troops.
Chateaubriand proclaims not the Muslim caliphs nor their architects to be the origin of Islamic architectural grandeur; rather he romanticizes a legacy stretching back four millennia. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Great Mosques of European Novelists and Poets (Slideshow)
Othello, though decently acted by Keith David, needs to be of more heroic stature, more purblind nobility, and, eventually, of more pitiable, poetic grandeur than mere competence can summon.
a passage of apostrophic grandeur

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