How To Use Grandiose In A Sentence

Hunt was also to write that he and Millais used to stand in front of the Raphael cartoons (then at Hampton Court) and judge them fearlessly, also that they condemned Raphael's Transfiguration (which they had never seen) 'for its grandiose disregard of the simplicity of truth, the pompous posturing of the Apostles, and the unspiritual attitudinising of the Saviour.' Cosa Nostra
Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are almost automatically credited to Churchill.
Our own Hemingway wrote so much grandiose nonsense about this so-called sport that the reader feels a certain dread as the climactic spectacle approaches — a dread heightened by the awareness that Montherlant was a matador in his teenage years. Monster of Marriage
This phraseology is grandiose, rotund and sonorous, but signifies a fatal weakness in Walcott's approach to both Brand and Philip.
This sounds such a grandiose claim, but the show does change lives. The Sun

She had some grandiose ( ie overambitious ) plan to start up her own company.
The grandiose scale of events projected by the pre-event publicity was a far cry from reality.
Grandiose though he was, he could hardly have imagined the fearsome awfulness of the twenty-first-century American imperium when he baptized its birth in the early days of the Second World War.
He dismissed his assistant with a grandiose sweep of his hand.
The term delusional disorder was suggested by Winokur 1072 to avoid the confusion resulting from the diverse concepts of paranoia and the ambiguity of that term, which has been used to denote insanity, suspiciousness, persecutory or grandiose delusions, schizophrenia, and a specific disease entity distinct from other psychoses. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
According to Hellenic myth, general deity? Zeus has a grandiose temple on Olympus.
As it approached the hangar, the sound system played the grandiose theme tune to Air Force One, a thriller starring Harrison Ford as a tough, embattled president.
Opposition politicians have slammed a ‘grandiose’ project to install a massive weatherproof plasma TV screen in Hull city centre costing £675,000.
His successes are commemorated in a number of grandiose effigies, triumphal arches, vast frescoes and victory columns.
He lived with his mistress at a luxurious estate in Normandy, to which he had added a grandiose belvedere.
Peter Wiggin, the eldest, is a cruel and sadistic boy with grandiose but entirely plausible ideas of ruling the world. Ender’s Game: Lost Childhood « A Working Title
Parents also describe their children as having an extreme degree of grandiose defiance, refusing to comply with authority at home or at school.
What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute! Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius
The oil money has led to investment in grandiose road schemes (not just those roundabouts) and other infrastructure. Times, Sunday Times
Though the facade was listed and couldn't be altered, the inside had not been decorated in the grandiose style of some of its neighbours.
City of grandiose and elegant façades, the gracious arcades of the Galleria Vittorio Emanuelle, here the Milanese mix their cool pragmatism with a love of the good life.
She has grandiosely announced that the National Advisory Council headed by her will monitor the implementation of the Government's governance charter.
He thought and wrote in grandiose terms, in a style that has now gone out of fashion, and that would be censored by our scientific journals!
A wise suspicion is that such a fate awaits any treaty containing grandiose reductions or harsh enforcement penalties.
The abandonment of grandiose planning intentions was the consequence of market conditions.
But the ability to give grandiose expression to excessive sentiment must offer some satisfaction, some pleasure.
Other winners have less grandiose ambitions. Times, Sunday Times
Alone and friendless in the bowels of one of his many palatial hideouts he must still, surely, nurse his grandiose ambitions.
What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Les Misérables
It, like so many other grandiose schemes of the mid-1990s, has been cut down to size by the crisis.
Parts of the grandiose Stalin-era building were sold to casino owners to raise money to stave off closure.
He seemed to be no more than a small-town accountant with big ideas, an exile from his tragic homeland and full of grandiose dreams of revolution. Times, Sunday Times
There is no other club that make such grandiose claims. Times, Sunday Times
He dismissed his assistant with a grandiose sweep of his hand.
Others make more grandiose claims. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
Britain gave him BBC Scotland's headquarters in Glasgow, where he was appointed amid grandiose claims about the BBC's Medici-like patronage of architecture, only to be pushed to the side in favour of "executive architects" and see a coarsened version of his design built. David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
ARLINGTON, Texas The NBA opened its doors Sunday in grandiose Cowboys Stadium, and, in typical Texas style, put its greatest stars on the biggest stage ever to witness a basketball game. — Record 100,000-plus crowd takes in All-Star Game in Dallas
The illness is key to the film's basic structure, careening between Hughes's high-flying grandiose business exploits and the suffocating rathole of his phobic hell.
Others make more grandiose claims. SPICE: The History of a Temptation
What we need is a more imaginative monetary policy directed at clearing that debt, not grandiose government projects that will add to it. Times, Sunday Times
There is no other club that make such grandiose claims. Times, Sunday Times
They built extravagant houses, opened grandiose museums and spent not just one, but several, fortunes on art.
Don't be discouraged when your grandiose plans fail on the first attempt.
Most grandiose of all was his plan to convert a small fishing village called Jerudong into a playground both for the royal family and tourists.
The bluster, the straining for effect, the attempt to live up to a grandiose reputation of their own making - all these are absent.
This is the "Single European Sky" concept, the name dreamed up by the Commission in pursuit of its grandiose ambitions of European political integration. Archive 2007-07-01
‘Ontology’ is a grandiose name for a part of metaphysics: an ontologist attempts to determine what sort of things really exist, what are the fundamental entities of which the world consists.
nothing came of his grandiose plans
He has grandiose delusions and does not want to stay in hospital.
This week he found himself adopting particularly grandiose tones. Times, Sunday Times
What does he feel now about this grandiose project? Times, Sunday Times
Even if it is bureaucratese, bureaucratic and grandiose.
Severe early narcissistic traumata cause a fixation of the grandiose self. Clinical Work with Adolescents
It was really all about plunder but was sanctified by grandiose monarchic claims. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
He would just have dropped out of historical remembrance, as grandiose claims and exciting hopes proved to be empty. Times, Sunday Times
The city's East Side, where Eastern European immigrants conceived grandiose works of ecclesiastic architecture before moving to neighboring suburbs like West Seneca and Cheektowaga, is inhabited largely by African Americans.
He wandered up the beach to the Coast Guard station, a grandiose weatherboard affair perched high on the frontal dune. AMAGANSETT
To this point, every hockey game has made the backhand gesture a little too forced and grandiose.
We always tend to forget the simple fact that we can make no progress if a majority of us remain unaffected by our grandiose developmental efforts.
What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can today blow into the trump of the Judgment Day, and tomorrow into the reed-flute! Les Miserables
But there seems absolutely no reason why British taxpayers should implicitly underwrite his grandiose and high-risk plans. Times, Sunday Times
There is a continuous need to control urges to enter grandiose schemes and avoid ostentatious manners.
Here, Lizzie pretends to be Isabella at an outrageously grandiose dress designer's studio.
This phraseology is grandiose, rotund and sonorous, but signifies a fatal weakness in Walcott's approach to both Brand and Philip.
His successes are commemorated in a number of grandiose effigies, triumphal arches, vast frescoes and victory columns.
A wise suspicion is that such a fate awaits any treaty containing grandiose reductions or harsh enforcement penalties.
At the same time, since the film is a theatrical release, casual moviegoers might expect the film to pack in heavy doses of grandiose imagery and action spectacle not unlike the "wuxia" films (i.e., Undefined
Maxine led the way through the turret, with its grandiose spiral staircase and its trompe l'oeil ceiling, into the house. COLDHEART CANYON
Entrepreneurs are often so dazzled by imaginings of their own brilliance that they forget to look at history and reality becomes distorted by grandiose dreams. Times, Sunday Times
This basic task gets sidetracked by the grandiose project of linking up the rivers.
Esther, my shopaholic, passive-aggressive, overly grandiose mother, loves to recount this story at least four or five times a year and always with great relish on my day of birth!
This sounds such a grandiose claim, but the show does change lives. The Sun
And he has grandiose plans for a multi-million pound visitor centre that would be the last word in UFOs and the paranormal.
So much for grandiose plans to transform Europe into the world's most dynamic and competitive economy by 2010.
Keith was painted as patronising and pompous, with a grandiose idea of her own importance.
But if we carry on as we are, it will be frittered away on grandiose schemes and unrealistic projects.
Have grandiose aims but puny abilities, great ambition but little talent.
Maybe not nearly to the degree or grandioseness that he would like to make himself appear to be. CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2006
Not because of the special effects, but the overall emotion of the scene was harder to engage in because of the grandioseness of the fight. IProng Magazine
This week he found himself adopting particularly grandiose tones. Times, Sunday Times
Schelling, for example, affirmed evil's reality as a principle of darkness manifesting in the grandiose exaltation of self-will. Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden
Not because it wasa lie, and not because it was a grandiose attemptto use the war, and those who fought in it, to score points forhimself. Bush's Swan Song
The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing.
The items include glibness and superficial charm,, grandiose self-worth, pathological lying, proneness to boredom and emotional vacuity.
Most importantly, it should be cheaper than some grandiose schemes being floated to bring back the age of sail.
While the elder posed and postured and generally made a bloody nuisance of himself, Hilary makes no grandstanding noises or grandiose gestures, and simply gets on with the job in hand.
This week he found himself adopting particularly grandiose tones. Times, Sunday Times
RICARDO CHAVIRA, ACTOR: As long as we ` re not over glamorous with it, or not kind of insane with the kind of grandioseness of what this can be. CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2005
Even by Wanaka property standards, tilting in their more grandiose fancies towards southern Tuscan or colonial chateaux, the house is a beaut.
He said Einfeld displayed symptoms of "hypomania", demonstrating grandiose ideas about his altruistic pursuits including the plight of Aborigines and the Jewish/Palestine conflict. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
The latest in a long line of grandiose schemes that have promised to revitalise the city are taking the first steps towards becoming a reality this week.
He seemed to be no more than a small-town accountant with big ideas, an exile from his tragic homeland and full of grandiose dreams of revolution. Times, Sunday Times
There's a grandiose little opera house with a conservatory that some spiritual ancestor of Ted Barlow's had installed. KICK BACK
But those dreams continue, with grandiose plans for dams along the length of the river and its tributaries.
Their third record doesn't even care to noodle around with meandering epics; the songs on this nine song cycle clock in at five minutes or less, managing to sound grandiose without being overblown.
That would be a grandiose political project obscuring a kernel of wisdom. Times, Sunday Times
This was completely different from any idea of grandiose constitutional changes.
The South mill complex, with its towering 225 ft tall chimney, is empty and has fallen derelict while one grandiose scheme after another hit the dust.
I do not think that it is grandiose to say that what we are seeing unfolding before our eyes is nothing less than the clash of two very different civilizations.
He also announced grandiose plans of sending engineers, technicians and drivers to Japan for advanced training.
Once Louis's advisers were involved these grandiose plans gave way to more realistic ones.
In most cases someone spewing the delusional, grandiose and revenge-fueled pushback of what can only be called a cornered man would be talking this way to the Starbucks barista, the clerk at CVS, the ER nurse or the last person on his cell phone list of favorites who will take his calls. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Its outlook will remain uniquely short-term, pragmatic, suspicious of grandiose institutional change.
However, these vast Roman vistas are processed through the Rococo penchant for grandiose ornamentation and are window dressing, pure decoration.
He could no longer live the grandiose lifestyle to which he had become accustomed.
Daqing oil management board developed congress to depict grandiose blue print.
his try to get back to the center of attention with that provocant insults have been failed grandiosely. A Hug for Obama, a Handshake for McCain - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
Spending on grandiose public works schemes was largely wasted. Times, Sunday Times
It was a grandiose spectacle, and one that stirred popular emotion.
And while even Tuck was wary of making any grandiose "turned-the-corner" statements about an 8-7 team that's multiple times seemed to have turned that corner and then backslid, he did say, "I think we are poised to make a run. Tuck Awakens and So Do the Giants
The skepticism is justified because past administrations have made them grandiose promises that fell flat as soon as the talkfest was over.
Sure, the trick may have been done before, but never has it been done on such a grandiose scale.
Now not all sequencing projects are carried out on such grandiose scales as the genome projects.
In spite of the banners' grandiose scale, the colorful, abstracted figures and landscapes featured in the paintings were inspired by Persian and Indian miniatures.
But disaster only inspires them to more grandiose schemes. Times, Sunday Times
We need to be able to bring our feelings of anxiety and existential vulnerability into dialogue with our fellow sufferers, so that these painful feelings can be held and better borne within relationships -- what I call a relational home -- rather than being evaded by means of the grandiose, destructive resurrective ideologies that have been so characteristic of human history. Robert D. Stolorow: The Economic Crisis as Collective Trauma
Manic mood, frequently characterized as elated and grandiose, is often as not riddled by depression, panic, and extreme irritability. Touched with Fire
Although it is stunningly shot, the film has a stagey grandiose feel that begs the viewer to see it as more than it is.
This wasn't because they are grandiose and soul-stirring, although they are. Times, Sunday Times
We have had an advance factory at Shandon lying idle for several years, and ultimately it was nothing more than a grandiose target for the vandals.
A large flowing fountain centered it all, and beyond, the rear windows overlooked the valley with a grandiose view of the lake and the city in the distance.
With the cost of the project rising, The owners are considering scaling down the grandiose plans. Times, Sunday Times
Shabbily forlorn were that man's habiliments -- turned and re-turned, patched, darned, weather - stained, grease-stained -- but still retaining that kind of mouldy, grandiose, bastard gentility, which implies that the wearer has known better days; and, in the downward progress of fortunes when they once fall, may probably know still worse. What Will He Do with It? — Volume 10
In the wake of such shattering, Americans became much more susceptible to destructive "resurrective ideologies" that promised to restore the grandiose illusions that had been lost. Robert D. Stolorow: Death and Resurrection
It is likely that the government had grandiose plans for that region.
The grandiose scheme for a journey across the desert came to nothing.
Unfaithful is a moral tale told by a master melodramatist - full of grandiose sound and imagery, but signifying not much of anything.
Keep hopes and dreams attainable, as grandiose schemes could dent your confidence if they don't pan out. The Sun
On the one hand we are told about grandiose plans for city status, an arena, a redeveloped theatre complex, a new cultural quarter and links to the Tube.
Ask a dancer - or any artist, for that matter - to talk about her/his art, and you invariably get a grandiose mission statement, peppered with sententious remarks about ‘Tradition, Innovation, Vision and Spirit’.
A few steps and a porch with classical columns lead to the outer storm doors which themselves in turn open on to an grandiose entrance vestibule.
It is time to do so now before the sunk costs of a grandiose scheme expand further. Times, Sunday Times
I agree with with comments made by “pk”, the kitchen and bathroom are too ordinary for such a grandiose residence. The Skyline Residence by Belzberg Architects
TOD have always been heavily prone to grandioseness. Drowned In Sound // Feed
Indeed, someone who has spent more than three decades in Washington dreaming up ever more grandiose his term ideas about how to use the state to shape economic and social outcomes with taxpayer dollars hardly meets the American definition of a conservative. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
If nothing else, this current council has shown that it is incapable of spending public money wisely once it's swept up in a grandiose plan.
It illustrates how the little man can, in the end, outwit and frustrate the grandiose plans of the great.
Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Durrell told an appeal hearing earlier this year that Einfeld displayed symptoms of "hypomania", manifesting itself in grandiose ideas about himself. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
During the interviews, he said Einfeld displayed symptoms of "hypomania", demonstrating grandiose ideas about his altruistic pursuits. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
Updates, 5/16: "It seems silly and grandiose to lavish praise on a movie whose dramatic crux is the recording of a demo tape, and there is some danger that the critical love showered on Once will come to seem a bit disproportionate," warns AO Scott. GreenCine Daily: Once.
‘Invented is a grandiose term,’ he says, explaining his hybrid of a trapeze and the industry-standard theatre flying devices.
Their CVs are torn apart, their grandiose claims are punctured and their numbers are first crunched then ground underfoot. Times, Sunday Times
But disaster only inspires them to more grandiose schemes. Times, Sunday Times
At times, Saldaña is grandiose, overearnest — "melodramatic," one reviewer said — the inevitable consequence of youth. Youth and Prayer
He would just have dropped out of historical remembrance, as grandiose claims and exciting hopes proved to be empty. Times, Sunday Times
In contrast to the Jain meagre population of believers, have built numerous grandiose Jain temples that surpass in splendor and expense representing evidence of remarkable affluency of Jains. WHY PRODUCING JAIN ENLIGHTENMENT FOR GLOBAL WEB TV ?
Spending on grandiose public works schemes was largely wasted. Times, Sunday Times
Causes of cyclicity of '' Epirrita autumnata '' (Lepidoptera, Geometridae): grandiose theory and tedious practice. Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
But Wednesday's speech - which Gingrich himself called "grandiose" - could actually resonate politically in Florida, where space exploration is good politics 14 miles away from Cape Canaveral. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Keep hopes and dreams attainable, as grandiose schemes could dent your confidence if they don't pan out. The Sun
In the process, what was a simple shrine became a grandiose temple.
This grandiose scheming is intercut with real news archive from the time, which shows the reverse - the siege descending into farce and defeat.
It is time to do so now before the sunk costs of a grandiose scheme expand further. Times, Sunday Times
Sheridan's initial misgivings about involvement with theatre soon gave way to grandiose ambition.
Such ideals were grandiose both in their conception and in relation to the practicalities of post-war reconstruction.
Then there are these grandiose building projects because, they say, the Granville Street offices are no longer adequate.
In lofts, basements and other clandestine locations, grandiose throwdowns were holding sway over a new generation of pill-popping rhythmaholics.
With the cost of the project rising, The owners are considering scaling down the grandiose plans. Times, Sunday Times
Nurses will be the linchpin to the Government's grandiose plans to modernise and improve the National Health Service, one of their leaders says.
Narcissism is a noxious mental disease that leads people to grandiose delusions.
A wise suspicion is that such a fate awaits any treaty containing grandiose reductions or harsh enforcement penalties.
Much grandiose painting business is imposed on top of a large blue spiral enclosing washy green transparencies.
There are still many obstacles in the way of such grandiose dreams. Times, Sunday Times
Postshow, the team made some grandiose claims for the play's subject matter, declaring it trailblazing. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, Olivier had a peculiar prose style, both camp and grandiose.
The friary was a converted landlord's mansion, though ‘mansion’ is a grandiose title for a draughty, rattly building that was cold throughout the winter.
It was both a humanitarian intervention (toppling one of the world's most brutal dictators) and an act of self-defense ( "the administration's grandiose rhetoric about pre-emption" is merely a dysphemistic way of saying this). The Case for Inhumane Intervention
I'm not trying to make a grandiose statement there, but I follow a lot of what's happening in jazz and instrumental music, and compositionally, what I'm doing is its own little thing. Mike Ragogna: Rough & Tumble, Stick & Stones, Moon Hotels & More: Conversations with John Waite, Jason Reeves, and Tom Moon, Plus Friday's Free George Harrison Concert
He expands on Wally's thoughts, to grandiose proportions.
This time it was a confectioner's shop, decidedly grandiose and apparently opulent.
At the heart of the plan, with broad perspectives in every direction, is the India Gate — a grandiose arch honoring the Indian conscripts, mostly Sikh from the names engraved, who fell on the far-off battlefields of Flanders and Gallipoli during World War I. City Walk: New Delhi
Each stands for the failure of grandiose but flawed social experiments, master plans drawn up by enlightened and progressive lovers of humanity in the abstract.
To this effect, it is imperative that Zambia takes stock of its investment in health infrastructure before originating grandiose plans on medical dispensation.
This week he found himself adopting particularly grandiose tones. Times, Sunday Times
You can, in short, overdo the pomp of sci-fi prophecy, the edge of quasi-religiosity that turns decently crafted fiction into something more grandiose.
The bombastic, vainglorious Nivelle had virtually announced to the world his grandiose expectations, making the dreadful defeat doubly damaging.
Bach came of age as a Lutheran composer at the height of the baroque period, a time of grandiose, richly ornamented architecture and music.
To achieve the Grand Manner, the subject should be grandiose, the treatment generalized, the concept intellectual, and the style unmannered.
But how many billions in foreign aid have been wasted over the decades due to the grandiose projects and corruption of dictatorships and kleptocracies?
Now, stipple is of course such an easy method that, like all easy methods, it runs to flamboyance; when people have a chance to express themselves they are apt to make all that is inside and that is outside of themselves in one form or another flamboyant, grandiose, and sometimes ridiculously so; but other times it is the expression of the most beautiful things in architecture, especially from the French schools, that one could imagine. A Trip Through South America
It's a physical law of the universe that grandiose plans made under the influence of intoxicating beverages pave a sure path to disaster or disappointment.
Waking up the next morning, looking up at the grandiose corniced ceilings, marble mantlepiece and antique dressing table, I felt like a slightly less evil Marie Antoinette. Louise Roe: Playing Princess In Paris: My 24 Hours At The Plaza Athenee
In the presidential primaries, he showed little interest in grandiose promises. Mr. Conservative
The NBA opened its doors Sunday in grandiose Cowboys Stadium, and, in typical Texas style, put its greatest stars on the biggest stage ever to witness a basketball game. Record 100,000-plus crowd takes in All-Star Game in Dallas
The main grandiose building covered with ceramic scenes glorifying Soviet achievements is closed. Russia's Troubled Waters Flow With The Mighty Volga
Google is on a grandiose journey to digitise just about every word, painting, note, street, mountain, stream, ocean, book, newspaper, animal, insect, photograph and email that ever existed.
I think a measure of being a good villain is grandioseness. Pretty, Fizzy Paradise
A wise suspicion is that such a fate awaits any treaty containing grandiose reductions or harsh enforcement penalties.
Well, the most salient fact about that missile test was that, like the more grandiose Pacific tests of the Star Wars interceptors, it was a failure.
Since then I've always thought of Elway as El Johnway, because the title sounds appropriately mythic and grandiose. Jenny Shank: Writing the Decent Denver Novel
Narcissism is a noxious mental disease that leads people to grandiose delusions.
Huston was ever an adapter of literary and subliterary properties, ranging from the grandiose—"The Bible" (1966), no less—to the ludicrous (the 1973 Paul Newman spy thriller "The Mackintosh Man"). The Man Who Would Be King
Entrepreneurs are often so dazzled by imaginings of their own brilliance that they forget to look at history and reality becomes distorted by grandiose dreams. Times, Sunday Times
Desert landscapes with unspeakable monsters hiding in grandiose mysterious structures, a dread and a trembling for an amateur adventurer and a professional curiosity for Sean Connery-like types. H. P. Lovecraft "At the Mountains of Madness" and other masterpieces of terror
In the wake of such shattering, Americans became much more susceptible to resurrective ideologies that promised to restore the grandiose illusions that have been lost. Robert D. Stolorow: The Meaning and the Rhetoric of Evil: Auschwitz and Bin Laden
We are well aware of the grandiose plans that are conjured, supported and implemented by politicians on entering office.
As the claimant to China's political and cultural heritage, they have built in a grandiose classical style.
Entrepreneurs are often so dazzled by imaginings of their own brilliance that they forget to look at history and reality becomes distorted by grandiose dreams. Times, Sunday Times
Whether he will now lower his grandiose expectations and constrain his expansionist impulses remains to be seen.
What we need is a more imaginative monetary policy directed at clearing that debt, not grandiose government projects that will add to it. Times, Sunday Times

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