How To Use Grandiloquent In A Sentence
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You have to understand that he had a habit of making grandiloquent statements.
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Shakespeare, to many, is almost like Indian mythology with its larger-than-life characters and grandiloquent plots and dialogues.
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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
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But in no time one realizes that the claim is not grandiloquent, but humble.
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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
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His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.
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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
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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
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His ambitions appear increasingly grandiloquent and out of touch.
Times, Sunday Times
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He duplicates the editors' preface in a rather grandiloquent manner.
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Elie is a busy man, and has no time for such grandiloquent nonsense.
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It is unlikely to be advanced by grandiloquent and misplaced historical analogies.
Times, Sunday Times
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His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.
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A body of very poor persons, individually -- in the commercial sense of the term -- insolvent, manage to create a new basis of security which has been somewhat grandiloquently and yet truthfully called the capitalisation of their honesty and industry.
The Rural Life Problem of the United States Notes of an Irish Observer
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By the end of my visit I would have been happy to see photographs of kittens or even some grandiloquent paintings by Julian Schnabel, anything not so proud of being self-referential and small time.
Snapshot of a Movement
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What you hear as absurdly grandiloquent is passionately persuasive for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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Their judicial proclamations range from grandiloquent declarations of sovereign citizenship to lowly refusals to pay speeding tickets.
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Their judicial proclamations range from grandiloquent declarations of sovereign citizenship to lowly refusals to pay speeding tickets.
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Proudly ambidextrous papyrology was furiously grandiloquent laceration.
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His ambitions appear increasingly grandiloquent and out of touch.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of the politicians who give grandiloquent speeches on Europe's future seem to know history only as far back as Hitler, Stalin and the Cold War.
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Brooks managed to squeeze 'peripatetic', 'equanimity', 'homeostasis', 'sojourner', 'grandiloquent' and 'didactic' into the brief 850 word article on the inner workings of Obama's mind, exposing a fragile psyche of his own, and a desperate need to validate his position as a national talking head.
Ben Cohen: David Brooks and Big Words
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His tightly honed but grandiloquent rhetoric rang like gold on marble, even when it was covering gross political ineptitude.
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He was ushered by Benoit, the elderly body-servant, rather grandiloquently called the seneschal, into the ground-floor room known traditionally as the library.
Scaramouche
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Johnson's expression is manly, vigorous, grandiloquent and bombastic.
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Resplendent in his uniform and medals, [Forest] Whitaker's Amin is a gloriously mad and grandiloquent figure, conceived by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock as a Day-Glo Shakespearean monster, with audacious hints of Othello and even Titus Andronicus, a monster for whom they have written boldly extended dialogue scenes of unabashed intelligence and theatricality," writes the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw.
GreenCine Daily: Baftas. Nominations.
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I can use the tools every other writer uses, the grandiloquent metaphors, the descriptions, but I don't think I'd be doing the reader any favors.
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His grandiloquent claim that there are five branches of the fine arts, and that the greatest of these is confectionery, is famous.
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They feel so let down by a government that promised the earth - wonderful phrases, and grandiloquent language.
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How far does it live up to this grandiloquent claim?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Beijing made grandiloquent promises at the time.
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The grandiloquent building in which the hotel is housed has been a city landmark since 1909 and it's a neo-classical façade is impressive, with tall, fat columns rising high above its entrance.
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It's a role in which Sam West positively revels; he is perfect as this suave, grandiloquent and crass overreacher.
Evening Standard - Home
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How far does it live up to this grandiloquent claim?
The Times Literary Supplement
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Horace has a grandiloquent way of thinking about things.
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To the delight of nineteenth-century readers, phrasings were predictably grandiloquent.
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In the same grandiloquent tradition as Italian cinema, imagery is paramount in setting the mood and projecting the hidden psychology of the characters.
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Johnson's expression is manly, vigorous, grandiloquent and bombastic.
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What you hear as absurdly grandiloquent is passionately persuasive for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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a grandiloquent and boastful manner
