Sample Sentences forgrandiose (auto-selected)
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He possessed grand, some would say grandiose, spiritual ambitions.† (source)
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He made a sweeping, grandiose gesture with his hands.† (source)
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Paul thought of the grandiose silver chandelier he had commissioned a few years ago.† (source)
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Nero had always loved threats and grandiose statements.† (source)
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I fault the media for perpetuating these grandiose dreams.† (source)
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Before him sprawled the city, glorious and grandiose.† (source)
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Miss Petrocelli, representing the State, has presented this case in very broad and grandiose terms.† (source)
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As he builds the assassination scheme in his head, layer by layer, everything from the location to its grandiosity is designed to make him the star performer in an epic scripted tale.† (source)
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it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute!† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Martin straightened, then began to speak in a grandiose tone.† (source)
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Such grandiose declarations were commonplace during Ceausescu's reign, for his master plan—to create a nation worthy of the New Socialist Man—was an exercise in grandiosity.† (source)
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How grandiose.† (source)
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You'd imagine him like the young Rembrandt, flooded with grandiose commissions, his studios resplendent with jewels and battle axes, goblets and furs, leopard skins and costume armor, all the power and sadness of earthly things.† (source)
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Every day at the same time, the old man walked through the cast-iron gates of the grandiose Armstrong House at the north end of Forsyth Park.† (source)
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At the same time, she had a flamethrower tongue that she would turn on people at the oddest times, usually in some grandiose, earth-scorching retaliation for a slight or breach of etiquette that none of the other freshmen had even perceived.† (source)
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Nick's turnaround is so sudden and so grandiose, it feels like ...it feels like he must want something.† (source)
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