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the quality of being grand or magnificent or splendid- The hotel is well past the days of its grandeur.
grandeur = the quality of being grand or magnificent or splendid
- I love the grandeur of cathedrals.
- What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?Jane Austen -- Sense and Sensibility
- Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space.Camille Paglia
- an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art
- But I do not want to be the president who built empires, or sought grandeur, or extended dominion.Lyndon B. Johnson -- We Shall Overcome
- Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor.Thomas Gray -- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - And so the grandeur of the Forest-tree
Comes not by casting in a formal mould,
But from its own divine vitality.William Wordsworth - I had been looking aloft at the giant show-peaks only as things to be worshiped for their grandeur and magnitude, and their unspeakable grace of form; I looked up at them now, as also things to be conquered and climbed.Mark Twain -- A Tramp Abroad
- Their dreams and aspirations had the grandeur, scope, and breadth of postage stamps.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- "Grandeur," said Pangloss, "is extremely dangerous according to the testimony of philosophers.Voltaire -- Candide
- We have seen the magnificent grandeur and the magnificent achievements of one of the great metropolitan cities of the South.Booker T. Washington -- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography
- But now all that seemed trifling, a kind of delusion of grandeur.John Gardner -- The Sunlight Dialogues
- The men of C.E.T. were likened to archeologists of ideas, inspired by God in the grandeur of rediscovery.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863 had all the moral grandeur of a bill of lading.Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- One of them, a real bullet-head, was magnetic, showing both incredible pettiness and a form of distorted grandeur.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- It was a chilly place for all its grandeur.George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
- You cannot imagine the wild grandeur of the scene!Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
- The words, forms of immense grandeur behind a cloudy screen, overwhelmed him-"Yehase raglov uveshtayim yeofaif-"Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- He may have been very grand in his birth, and he certainly was very grand in his bows and speeches; but that was all the grandeur he had.Henry James -- The American
grandeur = the quality of being grand or magnificent or splendid
grandeur = the quality of being grand or magnificent or splendid
grandeur = the quality of being grand or magnificent or splendid
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