grandiloquentin a sentence
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She said it in a grandiloquent and boastful manner.
grandiloquent = in a lofty manner intended to impress
- I question if ours are not at fault in this respect and if they are not going to look too assuming of architectural stateliness and to be overbonded with sculptural and other efforts for grandeur and grandiloquent pomp.† (source)
- Steve would speak to the warders in a condescending and grandiloquent style that they probably did not understand.† (source)
- The only people to whom Yurii Andreievich now felt close were his wife, her father, and two or three of his colleagues, modest rank-and-file workers, who did not indulge in grandiloquent phrases.† (source)
- policy has been more grandiloquent than strategic
- grandiloquent sloganeering
- 'Hercule Poirot does not hunt down tramps,' replied my friend grandiloquently.† (source)
- Me, I am the same!' said Poirot grandiloquently.† (source)
- And he drew himself up grandiloquently.† (source)
- And Naphta grandiloquently responded, "Logos!"† (source)
- THE CADET (grandiloquently): —With the smell of powder!† (source)
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- 'Fanny,' returned her father, grandiloquently, 'give me leave, my dear.† (source)
- But your grandiloquence, and your conduct in swinging the beetle—how excessively odd!† (source)
- I beg to suggest, with great respect, that your excellency should buy it, and thus quench the noble literary thirst which is consuming you at this moment," he concluded grandiloquently.† (source)
- His grandiloquence amused Philip, but he was sensitive to rhetoric; and he listened with pleasure while Athelny, with picturesque expressions and the fire of a real enthusiasm, described to him the rich delight of reading Don Quixote in the original and the music, romantic, limpid, passionate, of the enchanting Calderon.† (source)
- He turned to Sally, and to comfort her for the anti-climax of the contrast added grandiloquently: "They also serve who only stand and wait.'† (source)
- (Laughing): I went through the Lyre, but I snapped a cord; (Grandiloquent): I mean to write the whole thing in a book; The small gold stars, that, wrapped up in my cloak, I carried safe away at no small risks, Will serve for asterisks i' the printed page!† (source)
- …style drew graceful little pictures of Cronshaw in the Latin Quarter, talking, writing poetry: Cronshaw became a picturesque figure, an English Verlaine; and Leonard Upjohn's coloured phrases took on a tremulous dignity, a more pathetic grandiloquence, as he described the sordid end, the shabby little room in Soho; and, with a reticence which was wholly charming and suggested a much greater generosity than modesty allowed him to state, the efforts he made to transport the Poet to…† (source)
- "Lord God of might, God of our salvation!" began the priest in that voice, clear, not grandiloquent but mild, in which only the Slav clergy read and which acts so irresistibly on a Russian heart.† (source)
- "No, I am studying," answered the young man, somewhat surprised at the grandiloquent style of the speaker and also at being so directly addressed.† (source)
- Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan—to an ant or a flea—such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent.† (source)
- "I sent for you," said he, in a grandiloquent tone, when I had completed my examination of the beetle, "I sent for you, that I might have your counsel and assistance in furthering the views of Fate and of the bug"— "My dear Legrand," I cried, interrupting him, "you are certainly unwell, and had better use some little precautions.† (source)
- Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed worthy of antiquity had been performed by General Raevski.† (source)
- If, however, it were the fact that such a history were in existence, it must necessarily, being the story of a knight-errant, be grandiloquent, lofty, imposing, grand and true.† (source)
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