How To Use Grandiloquence In A Sentence
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His portrait with the eyeshade, from 1775, is utterly without grandiloquence.
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It's the economy, stupid, which reflects the government close association with the "grandiloquence" of Britain's economic performance in the past few years.
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The article is thus meaningless grandiloquence when it comes to the courts.
Iris Erlingsdottir: "Free Speech" Not So Free
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
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And what I find in her work is a lot of Italian baroque kind of gestures and grandiloquence.
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The source of Mr. Fortuna's power in the film resides in his lithe gait and the sly air of grandiloquence with which Cesar hunts down his man.
Out of Africa and Back Again
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However, Evie's mother sounds a little too much like her daughter, and this lack of distinctiveness can be levelled at most of the voices: they share a slightly fusty grandiloquence at times redolent of a 19th-century novel.
The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams – review
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Nevertheless, he has his moments of loopy grandiloquence.
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Enter Kekhman, then 39, a multi-millionaire fruit importer who described himself , with Freudian grandiloquence, as "the Emperor of the Banana".
Who's pulling the strings in Russia's ballet revolution?
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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Johan Kobborg played Prince Desire with the grandiloquence and hauteur he is so capable of.
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There is no playing to the gallery, no verbal gymnastics, certainly no grandiloquence.
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Her books capture the peculiar grandiloquence of children's speech; the ornate sentences, stippled with adverbs like raisins in a cake.
A life in books: Lauren Child
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Her books capture the peculiar grandiloquence of children's speech; the ornate sentences, stippled with adverbs like raisins in a cake.
A life in books: Lauren Child
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Now that I've said that, allow me to apologize for the grandiloquence and pomposity of that preceding paragraph.
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It's a sad commentary that so many journalists mouthed such bunkum with straight faces - and that Americans didn't quickly laugh this grandiloquence out of the court of public opinion.
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Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader.
Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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Or consider the scene in which the author and his wife fall for that lovely house with the big mortgage: "We picked up one corner of the rug and gasped with pleasure at the grandiloquence of the hardwood floors.
A Little Learning
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His writing, however, has been criticised by some for grandiloquence and obscurantism.
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Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year.
GreenCine Daily: Interview. Darren Aronofsky.