| These are worthy elements of foreign policy but also modest ones compared to regime change, nation-building, and other grandiosity. |
| The matzah also stands in contrast to chametz which symbolizes false pride, absorption in our individual egos, and grandiosity. |
| More important than her posture of self-martyring altruism was the vagueness of her masochistic grandiosity. |
| The grandiosity of its concept encouraged several rulers to continue adding to the structure and adding further stages. |
| His rhetoric is larded with mythic grandiosity that amuses the jaded Western ear. |
| This is music that has a megalomaniac quality, that creates a portentous grandiosity without much in the way of inner self-reflexivity. |
