How To Use Larger-than-life In A Sentence
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He was a larger-than-life character who went on to build a replica of Venice - including a Grand Canal, with gondolas - inside his new hotel, the Venetian.
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London has always been a magnet for larger-than-life literary luminaries.
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The writing is crisp, making the characters realistic personas despite their larger-than-life roles.
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The genius, here, is that the athletic soar of that chesty attitude indicates not boyish high spirits or exuberant tough-guy mayhem, but a desperate cling to a fading image of the larger-than-life.
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Rees, a rugby nut, probably noticed that the larger-than-life, if gobby, pupil was developing a talent for sport.
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He was transforming into a larger-than-life character that unapologetically shoved his way into the American Psyche until he seemed to almost stand astraddle Hollywood, casting a tall shadow that stretched across the entire country.
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Chicago-set "Ride Along" is about a "larger-than-life" cop who is all "razor blades and brass knuckles wrapped in politeness and egoless charm.
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Such a larger-than-life figure shouldn't really be confined to a mere album.
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The script allows full rein to her larger-than-life acting style.
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And, being a pantomime, there is a larger-than-life dame, played by Peter Jones.
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This larger-than-life sound is portrayed both vocally and by use of the padded layers of lo-fi treated guitars and keyboard fills.
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That unique combination of flashiness and rigidity is at the artificial heart of one larger-than-life movie that explodes right off the screen this weekend in theaters.
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She walks around the perimeter of Mac Court, counting the larger-than-life photo posters.
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A diminutive figure in his sharp threads, he is a larger-than-life character.
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We walked in the front door and, boom, there was the lady, feet up on the desk, legs splayed, and on their computer screen was her "bizness" in all of its much-larger-than-life, gynecological glory.
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But if he lacks a larger-than-life persona, he remains a superb performer with the repertoire to get the job done.
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A larger-than-life Alice was depicted at her unbirthday party with her friends from Wonderland gathered around her.
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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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He is a larger-than-life character who can fill a room with his presence, his varied opinions and experiences.
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Ida Worthington, and her husband Fred, who died 15 years ago, were larger-than-life extroverts.
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Blessed with a larger-than-life comic appearance, he has a refreshingly abnormal way of looking at the world.
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People slag me off because I'm a larger-than-life character, and that's part of my thing from the past - I lived my life very excessively.
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This bias has, of course, been justified by the larger-than-life and buffoonish character of the main candidates.
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He is a larger-than-life character in the flesh, with a deep voice and sporting a smart grey suit with a red handkerchief.
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Unbelievable," said an Italian tourist, gawking at a columned house with rotating carousels and a larger-than-life Santa.
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When we think of adventurers, many of us conjure up images of larger-than-life characters trekking to the North Pole.
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Martin also enjoyed Edwards' creation of a ‘larger-than-life, Hunter S. Thompson-type, two-fisted, hard-drinking persona.’
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While dons in the 1970's films were larger-than-life, the 21st century don has risen from the streets and is rougher round the edges.
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When we think of adventurers, many of us conjure up images of larger-than-life characters trekking to the North Pole.
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He was a fun and larger-than-life character.
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With some speculating anacoustic vibe to others denying outright that very notion, Octahedron is likely to keep us in the press guessing until June 23rd, when once again the fans will have to comb through the pages of lyrics, dictionaries in hand, deciphering the codes and larger-than-life metaphors the The Mars Volta invariably weave into every album.
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He also injects his larger-than-life persona into his routines -- wearing sparkly self-designed "onesie" costumes portraying both male and female characters in his controversial routine "The Swan.
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They point out a ballerina for a larger-than-life music box, colourful matryoshka dolls; and all kinds of fabulous creatures.
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Galen is a larger-than-life kind of character, due to his immense knowledge and power.
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It is hard to find anyone with a firmer grasp on the nightclub sector than the larger-than-life former bouncer.
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You couldn't [make up] some of the stuff, and, I think, again in the case of this film, it's a story of very larger-than-life characters [creating] outrageous situations, misguided choices, and yadda, yadda, yadda.
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Through the eager ministrations of a larger-than-life taxi-driver Spiro, who himself has a soft spot for Mother, the family move to a succession of different coloured villas.
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The script allows full rein to her larger-than-life acting style.
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Larger-than-life people in which the word captivating understates their magnetic personalities.
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But he has a larger-than-life personality!
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The contestants have got to be larger-than-life characters.
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We are portraying a colourful, larger-than-life world and the reality of that world is that violence is the currency.
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Its rococo entranceway was lined with larger-than-life busts of his children, which had been painted in life-like colors.
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The show included three sculptures replicating unmarked packets of sweetener at vastly larger-than-life size.
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He was a larger-than-life character with an endless fund of projects.
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Suddenly the world was confronted with a heavyweight champion who was a larger-than-life character that many did not like.
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But for me, it was the legacy of Byron and the Shelleys — and thejuxtaposition of such larger-than-life characters in such a pristinebuttoned-down place that gave Lake Geneva its most powerful allure.
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That's what happens when two celebrity chefs open a wildly popular Italian-food wonderland and bring in Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione, a larger-than-life brewmaster with a TV show of his own.
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Your characters are always larger-than-life - but are they based on real people?
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The various programmes captured his larger-than-life persona and irrepressible, outrageous flamboyance both on and off stage.
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A diminutive figure in his sharp threads, he is a larger-than-life character.
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Projected over several screens, the surtitles use different fonts, with a comic-book typeface for the larger-than-life characters.
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The hero appears as a larger-than-life character.
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A colourful array of larger-than-life characters descends on the summer colony.
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It has a wonderful atmosphere about it, with larger-than-life characters and a slightly unreal, fantasy feel.
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A chipper confidence and a can-do spirit tempered by humble awe for the larger-than-life vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the role they play in its fulfillment.
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That movie is about cunning, wit and irony - as incarnated in the larger-than-life figure of an Austrian super-star who is more American than millions of native-borns.
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The trouble is, it is his larger-than-life character that helps make him the compelling cricketer he is.
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The Banksy Effect, the term coined by journalist Max Foster several years ago, speaks to an awakening of interest in the (often illegal) interventions that artists use to call attention to the way we complacently live under larger-than-life infrastructures built (often) by one-eyed men.
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People see this larger-than-life character who jokes but he takes his football very seriously.
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Barrel-chested and bombastic, he's always been the quintessential, larger-than-life, rah-rah leader.
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Blessed with a larger-than-life comic appearance, he has a refreshingly abnormal way of looking at the world.
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Serena, in particular, was patently overweight and pictures of her larger-than-life figure were splashed across every newspaper in the land.
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The hero appears as a larger-than-life character.
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Long Jr., the larger-than-life governor and then senator who dominated the political scene in Louisiana from the late 1920s to the mid-1930s.
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After these two larger-than-life soloists, a big musical personality was needed in the second half.
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This larger-than-life thing is a dangerous state," she observes. "Your ego can become an obstacle to your work.
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Some uncharitable observers saw the entire episode as an attempt by the larger-than-life author to revive his novel's flagging fortunes in the nether regions of the bestseller lists.
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But he was a larger-than-life figure.
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A larger-than-life picture of Li has been erected in front of his high school to celebrate his accomplishment.
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I am a larger-than-life character.
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Check out some of the larger-than-life characters online.
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Well, nominally anyway: in fact, comics Matt Crosby, Tom Parry and Ben Clark use the credit crunch as little more than a jumping-off point for their usual overstuffed ragbag of imaginative, larger-than-life sketch comedy.
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This musical is great for schools to perform because of its zippy songs, larger-than-life characters and even larger talking plant.
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The larger-than-life SoHo duplex of a hotelier and fixture on the party circuit .
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Besides, Petaluma has never recognized greatness the larger-than-life figures who try to bring greatness to the city ... after all, Snoopy was ejected from the World Wrist Wrestling Championship to be held in Petaluma for lacking a thumb.
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He has cut a larger-than-life figure in his debut season.
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She's got this wonderful larger-than-life personality that fills a room.
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He was a larger-than-life figure but long past the peak of his influence.
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