Both Uses of
grandiloquent
in
War and Peace
- Zdrzhinski, the officer with the long mustache, spoke grandiloquently of the Saltanov dam being "a Russian Thermopylae," and of how a deed worthy of antiquity had been performed by General Raevski.†
Chpt 9
- "Lord God of might, God of our salvation!" began the priest in that voice, clear, not grandiloquent but mild, in which only the Slav clergy read and which acts so irresistibly on a Russian heart.†
Chpt 9 *
Definition:
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(grandiloquent) lofty (intended to impress or impressive)