Parents also describe their children as having an extreme degree of grandiose defiance, refusing to comply with authority at home or at school. |
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Alone and friendless in the bowels of one of his many palatial hideouts he must still, surely, nurse his grandiose ambitions. |
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But Branca's album releases are far less grandiose than his live performances. |
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Sheridan's initial misgivings about involvement with theatre soon gave way to grandiose ambition. |
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Whether he will now lower his grandiose expectations and constrain his expansionist impulses remains to be seen. |
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The paranoid type have prominent persecutory or grandiose delusions or hallucinations with similar content. |
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He now exposes the grandiose follies of Oxford University itself, and a few other universities as well, come to that. |
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Nurses will be the linchpin to the Government's grandiose plans to modernise and improve the National Health Service, one of their leaders says. |
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Sure, the trick may have been done before, but never has it been done on such a grandiose scale. |
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They built extravagant houses, opened grandiose museums and spent not just one, but several, fortunes on art. |
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Keith was painted as patronising and pompous, with a grandiose idea of her own importance. |
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To this point, every hockey game has made the backhand gesture a little too forced and grandiose. |
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It illustrates how the little man can, in the end, outwit and frustrate the grandiose plans of the great. |
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He originally thought in terms of a theatrical setting for the whole cycle of fifteen quartets, but that proved too grandiose. |
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However, these vast Roman vistas are processed through the Rococo penchant for grandiose ornamentation and are window dressing, pure decoration. |
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Whether bloatedly grandiose or delectably deflated, he exudes roguish, anarchic life, embattled or embottled, able to charm fish out of the seas. |
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The items include glibness and superficial charm,, grandiose self-worth, pathological lying, proneness to boredom and emotional vacuity. |
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His successes are commemorated in a number of grandiose effigies, triumphal arches, vast frescoes and victory columns. |
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Such a grandiose delusion is common to the consideration of an insanity defense. |
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Andrew, the nerd manipulated by grandiose dreams of godhood, must admit that he, not some outside force, killed his best friend. |
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Where better to locate a grandiose businessman with small-town pretensions, brazen ambition and borderline criminality? |
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Then there are these grandiose building projects because, they say, the Granville Street offices are no longer adequate. |
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This phraseology is grandiose, rotund and sonorous, but signifies a fatal weakness in Walcott's approach to both Brand and Philip. |
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Nothing so grandiose has been confirmed by actual or excavated remains of religious architecture. |
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Now not all sequencing projects are carried out on such grandiose scales as the genome projects. |
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Here, Lizzie pretends to be Isabella at an outrageously grandiose dress designer's studio. |
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He also announced grandiose plans of sending engineers, technicians and drivers to Japan for advanced training. |
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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! |
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The skepticism is justified because past administrations have made them grandiose promises that fell flat as soon as the talkfest was over. |
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Both soloists and choir rise magnificently to the occasion, delivering performances that are grandiose yet saturated with a humanity. |
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There is a continuous need to control urges to enter grandiose schemes and avoid ostentatious manners. |
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In lofts, basements and other clandestine locations, grandiose throwdowns were holding sway over a new generation of pill-popping rhythmaholics. |
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But the ability to give grandiose expression to excessive sentiment must offer some satisfaction, some pleasure. |
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The stunning and grandiose set compliments the beauty of Puccini's emotionally melodic score. |
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Even by Wanaka property standards, tilting in their more grandiose fancies towards southern Tuscan or colonial chateaux, the house is a beaut. |
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As the claimant to China's political and cultural heritage, they have built in a grandiose classical style. |
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Bach came of age as a Lutheran composer at the height of the baroque period, a time of grandiose, richly ornamented architecture and music. |
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He lived with his mistress at a luxurious estate in Normandy, to which he had added a grandiose belvedere. |
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It, like so many other grandiose schemes of the mid-1990s, has been cut down to size by the crisis. |
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We are well aware of the grandiose plans that are conjured, supported and implemented by politicians on entering office. |
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This basic task gets sidetracked by the grandiose project of linking up the rivers. |
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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. |
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And he has grandiose plans for a multi-million pound visitor centre that would be the last word in UFOs and the paranormal. |
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The site would be entered through a grandiose arch, and each house would have a sloping green in front of it. |
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To achieve the Grand Manner, the subject should be grandiose, the treatment generalized, the concept intellectual, and the style unmannered. |
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But if we carry on as we are, it will be frittered away on grandiose schemes and unrealistic projects. |
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They outlined Allen's grandiose vision of the wired and unwired world inside the home all strung together through the cable wire. |
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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. |
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Although it is stunningly shot, the film has a stagey grandiose feel that begs the viewer to see it as more than it is. |
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Narcissism is a noxious mental disease that leads people to grandiose delusions. |
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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. |
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But those dreams continue, with grandiose plans for dams along the length of the river and its tributaries. |
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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. |
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This time it was a confectioner's shop, decidedly grandiose and apparently opulent. |
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Hegelianism was the first of numerous attempts at grandiose system building in the 19th century. |
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Much grandiose painting business is imposed on top of a large blue spiral enclosing washy green transparencies. |
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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. |
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But how many billions in foreign aid have been wasted over the decades due to the grandiose projects and corruption of dictatorships and kleptocracies? |
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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. |
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I suspect he chose the Dred Scott comparison precisely because of its overblown, grandiose nature. |
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After the march, the political convoy of picket-signs makes its way to a grandiose fast-food joint for pizza and beer. |
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Ford relates the sentiment, humour and more grandiose moral of the story very effectively, but manages always to keep things sweet and never saccharine. |
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Those close to him say that his ideas have become grandiose, that he sees himself in a different league, a league of front line leaders of the world. |
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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. |
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In spite of the banners' grandiose scale, the colorful, abstracted figures and landscapes featured in the paintings were inspired by Persian and Indian miniatures. |
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The leading neocons competed with each other to come up with the most grandiose vision of Middle East and planetary restructuring. |
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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. |
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Indeed, Olivier had a peculiar prose style, both camp and grandiose. |
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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. |
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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. |
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One of the more grandiose images, of a crowd swarming up the mount to hear a sermon from Christ as the sun slowly sets, wasn't planned and came about purely by accident. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The work is no grandiose masterpiece of self-aware ineffectualness, but the film rides its lead performance and unusual pacing to the umpteenth degree. |
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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. |
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He has grandiose delusions and does not want to stay in hospital. |
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In the process, what was a simple shrine became a grandiose temple. |
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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. |
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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. |
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It is likely that the government had grandiose plans for that region. |
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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. |
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Don't be discouraged when your grandiose plans fail on the first attempt. |
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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. |
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To this effect, it is imperative that Zambia takes stock of its investment in health infrastructure before originating grandiose plans on medical dispensation. |
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It behoves us all to watch how public money is spent on grandiose, Banana-Republic projects. |
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The judges said he suffered from grandiose delusions and narcissism. |
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Prepubertal and early adolescent bipolarity differentiate from ADHD by manic symptoms, grandiose delusions, ultrarapid or ultradian cycling. |
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Unlike men of similar ambition, such as Cecil Rhodes, Walker's grandiose scheming ultimately failed against the union of Central American people. |
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While grandiose narcissism is characterized by an extroverted, self-aggrandizing, domineering and flamboyant interpersonal style. |
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It did not feature outsized personalities or grandiose schemes. |
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Months after his arrest, he was online acting out a grandiose identity. |
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Despite their grandiose titles, the groups had little popular support and the requests were ignored. |
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The style fell markedly out of favor in the 1930s, replaced by the more grandiose nationalist styles that Stalin favored. |
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But to set the stage for this grandiose project, we must first revisit a previous screw-up in our defence policy planning. |
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Many historians have concluded that he had grandiose foreign policy ambitions. |
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Finley, that the grandiose aims amounted to at most a form of random charity, an additional imperial benevolence. |
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He mentions eclipses, but considers Hipparchus's almanac grandiose for seeming to know how Nature works. |
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At the same time, performances in Britain and the United States moved away from Handel's performance practice with increasingly grandiose renditions. |
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The two monopolists took advantage of the patent to produce a grandiose joint publication under the title Cantiones quae ab argumento sacrae vocantur. |
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Morris began a grandiose program of building branch railways, and adeptly handled the arbitration at the Hague tribunal on American fishing rights. |
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In the spring of 1834, while at Berne, Mazzini and a dozen refugees from Italy, Poland and Germany founded a new association with the grandiose name of Young Europe. |
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The new regime of Normandy was keen to signal its arrival with an ambitious programme of grandiose cathedrals and castles throughout the High Middle Ages. |
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Henry VIII had embarked on a grandiose programme of artistic patronage. |
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An art form dating from the 14th century, Noh drama usually features heroic themes, stylized acting and masks, music and slow, grandiose gestures. |
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These books tend to be self-published at first, and indeed their grandiose semiliteracy will be familiar to anyone who has done time in a publisher's slushpile. |
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