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The hotel is well past the days of its grandeur.grandeur = impressive magnificence
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I love the grandeur of cathedrals.grandeur = large magnificence
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But I do not want to be the president who built empires, or sought grandeur, or extended dominion. (source)grandeur = impressive magnificence
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The cameras haven't lied about its grandeur.† (source)
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Even in dim torchlight, the grandeur of the place amazed me.† (source)
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It wasn't until I had children of my own that my grandmother told me about her life in Mexico, about a fairy-tale existence with servants, wealth, and grandeur, which had preceded her life in the company farm camp.† (source)
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I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ...and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man.† (source)grandeur = impressive magnificence
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That was a notch above even the blacksmith's domestic grandeurs, and it hit him hard; you could see it.† (source)
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What had stayed with him was not the sight of his family's clock still ticking by the door, nor the grandeur of the architecture, nor even the view from the northwest window.† (source)
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That was why I came to lie on a bed in a hotel in Long Beach, California, on the last coast amid the grandeurs of nature.† (source)
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After the war, it was restored to its original, stark grandeur.† (source)
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This being an ambassador couldn't be envisioned as in the old days—a Guicciardini arriving from Florence with his clever face, or a Russian coming to Venice, or an Adams—such grandeurs have sunk down as the imagination has been transferred from the bearer of his country's power walking on rugs to his blowing shellac through the waterpipes of Lima to stop the rust.† (source)
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Yet here was a scattered grove of trees, none of them of any particular grandeur.† (source)
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Hold it not in contempt; it is the humble step which will lead to grandeurs more worthy of the splendor of an origin like to thine.† (source)
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A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand.† (source)
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Intended gaieties would insist upon appearing like solemn grandeurs, the organization of the whole effort was carried out coldly, by hirelings, and a shadow seemed to move about the rooms, saying that the proceedings were unnatural to the place and the lone man who lived therein, and hence not good.† (source)
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