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Example sentences for "grandiose"

Lexicographically close words:
grandfathers; grandiflora; grandiflorum; grandiloquence; grandiloquent; grandis; grandissimo; grandly; grandma; grandmama
  1. This was a fortnight in that grandiose yet tawdry fabric which had been sacrificed to business, and the occasion was an illness in the family (not Albert's) which delayed the summer's outing.

  2. I wish he had been as successful on the night of our arrival in London when we encountered, in the court behind the big gilded grille of the Grand Metropole, the porter of that grandiose establishment.

  3. Leonardo only with equal power has thus joined men together in his grandiose representation of the end of the world.

  4. He began with the monument of Claude Gelee for Nancy, and there is a steep ascent from this first interesting production to the grandiose triumph of Balzac.

  5. No costume or grandiose outline is here as in Brittany, no picturesque poverty, no poetic archaisms; all is rustic and pastoral, but with the rusticity and pastoralness of every day.

  6. We are now in the wildest and most grandiose region of the Jura, and whichever road we take is sure to lead us through grand scenery.

  7. Monthier is perched on a hill-side amid grandiose mountains, and is hardly less picturesque than Ornans, though not nearly so enticing.

  8. The place felt more like a grandiose palace from another time than a hospital doing cutting-edge research.

  9. He wanted to talk about grandiose themes, but his mind was really somewhere else.

  10. But the grandiose idea aroused no enthusiasm abroad.

  11. And the fact that a joint responsibility for Sarah Gailey's welfare bound herself and George Cannon together in spite of themselves--this fact seemed to her grandiose and romantic, no longer oppressive.

  12. It has all, a grandiose effect, quite interesting.

  13. It has a certain grandiose air suggestive of Spanish magnificence, and reminds one of those stately creatures one meets so often in Spain, who ask for alms with high-toned elegance, and return thanks with the manners of a prince.

  14. As one approaches, this is found to be the residential suburb or park called L'asile, with grandiose buildings, now an appalling wreck with not one redeeming new patch upon it.

  15. This grandiose condition is by no means present in every case and is not in itself diagnostic of the disease.

  16. In other cases, the disease goes on to what Magnan calls the third stage or stage of grandiose delusions.

  17. I had felt just the same, years before, about the first grandiose plans for our own church at Fort Augustus.

  18. It was Pugin's constant grievance that the poverty of English Catholics prevented him from carrying out his grandiose ideas.

  19. No, the solitary and grandiose idea in his mind precluded all recollection of individual humanity.

  20. It was positively refreshing to get out of the heavy atmosphere charged with Macedoine's grandiose schemes and Mrs. Evans' premonitions of disaster and beggary for herself and Babs.

  21. And strangely, in point of actual music, we cannot fail to find an emptier, a more grandiose manner in all these symphonic poems than in the two symphonies.

  22. Nor has this grandiose tendency even yet spent its course.

  23. Why should not Tartarin, during the three months that still intervened before the elections, why should he not attempt some grandiose adventure?

  24. If Powers was remarkable for the refinement of his work, in the sculpture of Crawford we find a certain grandiose style not too common in our art, and at the same time so harmoniously rendered as to avoid exaggeration.

  25. No other capital in the world could boast a scene of such aerial pomp, such grandiose magnificence, at that hour of vagueness, when falling night imparts to cities a dreamy semblance, the infinite of human immensity.

  26. What could be done with those grandiose galleries and halls now that no fortune could defray the cost of the pompous life for which they had been built, or even feed the retinue needed to keep them up?

  27. In fact, the spot is a grandiose and dreary desert, and one asks oneself the why and wherefore of such a majestic porticus.

  28. Of this Pierre had a grandiose and tragical vision: he beheld his dream destroyed, his book swept away amidst that cry which spread around him as if flying to the four corners of the Catholic world "Evviva il Papa-Re!

  29. The new Prosser's was a grandiose by-product of chocolate.

  30. It was essential that he should create vast and grandiose structures, that he should have both artistic fame and worldly success.

  31. And thus he exposed the unreality of the grandiose pleas with which professional men impose on their wives and on themselves.

  32. All who know Toledo will remember it, built in the bizarre, flamboyant, often overladen but always grandiose style of Isabella and Ferdinand.

  33. Little by little I was learning how a race can be ascetic to its inmost core yet express itself in grandiose architecture; exalted in soul yet the most realistic people in Europe; serious and dignified, yet childlike in their zest of life.

  34. At the same time the general effect of the embossed work of this font is fine; nor do we fail to perceive that the artist retained some portion of the classic feeling for grandiose and monumental composition.

  35. Coarse and unselect as are the types of the boy angels, as well as of the young athletic giant, who plays the part in it of the dead Christ, this is a truly grandiose and striking picture.

  36. The delicious freshness of his earlier manner was sacrificed; but his best efforts to produce a grandiose composition ended in a confusion of individually beautiful but ill-assorted motives.

  37. It must be confessed that this grandiose and picturesque structure is but a shell to mask an earlier Gothic edifice.

  38. Von Bulow is didactic: The requisite strength for this grandiose bravura study can only be attained by the utmost clearness, and thus only by a gradually increasing speed.

  39. If the Rhodians had not decided on such grandiose dimensions for me, the same outlay would have furnished forth a round dozen of your golden Gods; I ought to be valued proportionally.

  40. Another clock, by Thomas Wagstaff, in date about 1780, exhibits a less grandiose appearance.

  41. But with that marvellous background of grandiose ruins and that sky, the simple spot was an incomparable retreat in which to end in meditation and renouncement a life already shaken by the tempests of the senses and of the world.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grandiose" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affected; ambitious; awful; bedizened; bombastic; ceremonious; declamatory; elaborate; elegant; elevated; extravagant; fancy; fine; flamboyant; flaming; flashy; flaunting; fulsome; garish; gaudy; glorious; grand; grandiloquent; grandiose; heroic; imposing; impressive; inflated; labyrinthine; lofty; lordly; lurid; luxurious; magnificent; majestic; meretricious; monstrous; noble; orotund; ostentatious; overdone; overwrought; palatial; pedantic; plush; pompous; pretentious; princely; proud; rhetorical; royal; sensational; sententious; showy; sonorous; splendid; splendiferous; stately; stilted; sumptuous; superb; superfine; swank; swanky; swell; tall; tortuous; visionary