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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.

grandeur = the quality of being grand or magnificent or splendid

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

grandeur = the quality of being grand or magnificent or splendid

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

grandeur = the quality of being grand or magnificent or splendid

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

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