Sample sentences for GRANDIOSE

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Definition

magnificent — typically of impressive and pretentious size

or of a plan: highly ambitious, unrealistic and complicated

She always has grandiose plans, but nothing ever comes of them.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
What is it that we call it in our grandiose speeches?
Dickens, Charles -- Our Mutual Friend
From that, in answer to my questions, he came round to his grandiose plans again.
Wells, H.G. -- The War Of The Worlds
A vaguely grandiose state of mental self-confidence is much too agreeable to be disturbed recklessly by such a delicate investigation.
Conrad, Joseph -- Chance
Or loyal, for free, for fun, to some grandiose practical joke he'd cooked up, all for her embarrassment, or terrorizing, or moral improvement?
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
From that, in answer to my questions, he came round to his grandiose plans again.
H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds
He possessed grand, some would say grandiose, spiritual ambitions.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
It was necessary to promote on a much more grandiose style than in the democracies the illusion that the masses actually rule.
Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
Nero had always loved threats and grandiose statements.
Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
Even his grandiose delusions about creating some new medical marvel haven't harmed anyone.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Creating grandiose romantic fantasies around the mundane exchange of seminal fluids?
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
But when he was back at his bench the grandiose aspirations faded and he was the sniffing, snuffling beagle, the impersonal worker.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the grandiose onward march of minds.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
BRADY moves to the witness stand in grandiose style.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind
No, the real plague had nothing in common with the grandiose imaginings that had haunted Rieux's mind at its outbreak.
Albert Camus -- The Plague
[with grandiose calm] If I let you do it, will you promise to brag of it afterwards to her?
George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
Logan Rourke's driveway was not as grandiose as some of the others they'd passed, but it was immaculate.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
Selfish and grandiose though Beck's obsession may have been, it F i wasn't frivolous.
Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
Nick's turnaround is so sudden and so grandiose, it feels like .... it feels like he must want something.
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl

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