grandiloquent

How To Use grandiloquent In A Sentence

• You have to understand that he had a habit of making grandiloquent statements.
• Shakespeare, to many, is almost like Indian mythology with its larger-than-life characters and grandiloquent plots and dialogues.
• While the girls are making their simple toilet and donning their unique, but scanty, costume, the kumu, aided by others, soothes the impatience of the audience and stimulates their imagination by cantillating a mele that sets forth in grandiloquent imagery the praise of the pa-ú. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
• But in no time one realizes that the claim is not grandiloquent, but humble.
• The juxtaposition of his carping, meticulous fetishizing of cuisine punctilios with that of his abecedarian, pompous-yet-undereducated plodding attempts to guild his prosaic sensibilities with grandiloquent language only serve to expose the charlatan behind the greasy, smacking lips and cheap, brass-plated tongue. Rouge
• His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.
• The muser felt two distinct senses, one that a sweet voice had touched the quick of his nature, the other that he had been grandiloquent in his talk while looking at the stars. Old Ebenezer
• It renders the Spaniard at times pompous and grandiloquent; prone to carry the "pundonor," or point of honor, beyond the bounds of sober sense and sound morality; disposed, in the midst of poverty, to affect the "grande caballero," and to look down with sovereign disdain upon Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies
• His ambitions appear increasingly grandiloquent and out of touch. Times, Sunday Times
• He duplicates the editors' preface in a rather grandiloquent manner.