| To the delight of nineteenth-century readers, phrasings were predictably grandiloquent. |
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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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| But in no time one realizes that the claim is not grandiloquent, but humble. |
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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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| 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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| You have to understand that he had a habit of making grandiloquent statements. |
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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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| Elie is a busy man, and has no time for such grandiloquent nonsense. |
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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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| He duplicates the editors' preface in a rather grandiloquent manner. |
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| When the discussion was over, Gingrich was grandiloquent on the subject of his own grandiloquence. |
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| With the exception of Ron Paul, all the serious candidates waxed grandiloquent about their aims. |
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| Presidents and prime ministers in the West have made grandiloquent speeches about making poverty history for fifty years. |
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| The style is grandiloquent and lacking in subtlety, but then Corneloup was no neutral observer. |
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| The diagnosis given in these communications is also generally correct, rhetorical and grandiloquent. |
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| The vocal harmonies and the grandiloquent or even extrovert aspect are confusing. |
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| Neither inert nor grandiloquent, this piece reveals the deep fissure in our history and endeavors to deal with the task of building memory. |
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| A celebrity whose egocentric and grandiloquent pronouncements reveal a potentially dangerous person in serious need of help? |
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| Johnson's expression is manly, vigorous, grandiloquent and bombastic. |
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| Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me. |
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| Often the joke is achieved by a po-faced conjunction of the grandiloquent and the thumpingly mundane. |
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| The first and most serious criticism concerns the Commission's propensity for rather grandiloquent self-satisfaction with regard to the European Union and for a cursory and even condescending view of our partners. |
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| Gustave Doré believed in these new means of dissemination and tried to paint grandiloquent paintings which he could then reproduce in great quantity. |
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| He is pompous, grandiloquent, asking to be cut down to size. |
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| This is because those rarefied debates on the break-up of Britain are invariably conducted in the grandiloquent language of national destiny and constitutional architecture. |
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| And then there was the grandiloquent Republican leader Everett Dirksen. |
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| To put it less charitably, he was grandiloquent, tempestuous, self-righteous, and stubborn to the point of pigheadedness. |
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| The summits' grandiloquent final declarations are frequently, and perhaps rather embarrassingly, contrasted with the paucity of the results they actually achieved. |
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| Aldhelm wrote in elaborate and grandiloquent and very difficult Latin, which became the dominant style for centuries. |
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| This fresco also has the merit of suggesting an imaginary and poetic journey, offering a cheeky and joyful contrast to the stony and grandiloquent background of La Défense. |
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| In its revolutionary delirium, the public changes direction, like swarming fish, at each grandiloquent jolt from the main players, who speechify constantly, even to one another. |
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| But should one single performance be highlighted during this concert, it would certainly be Andy Sears', whose voice, after many years of silence, is more powerful, grandiloquent and riper than ever. |
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| It is only consistent with his distinctive grandiloquent, effusive, cavalier, self-infatuated, hornswoggling, meretricious dilettante scope and outlandishness. |
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