All 7 Uses

grandiose
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The Sunlight Dialogues
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He sounded now incredibly like one of those lawyers summing up, tyrannical and grandiose.†
Chpt 1 *
Only a mind released from all passion could roll out such unashamedly grandiose prose.†
Chpt 3
A growl, a belch of gasoline, and deathless Aphrodite stirs on her way, descends to the city limits, drawn down not in a chariot pulled by sparrows, grandiose gold sinking aslant the burnt-out factory chimneys, the heavy air trembling at the heart to the pulse of countless wingbeats, but laboring stop by stop, as she always comes.†
Chpt 5
One made of sticks and stones and rivers and mountains the grandiose affirmation of human heads.†
Chpt 8
—and comfortable, darkly grandiose as a gentlemen's club in the warm, obstructed light of a summer afternoon.†
Chpt 13
It sounded grandiose, and he tried to think of a better way to say it.†
Chpt 18
As Fred Clumly, merely mortal, nothing more than—without any grandiose overtones—a man.†
Chpt 19

Definitions:

(1) (grandiose)
magnificent -- typically of impressive and pretentious size

or of a plan: highly ambitious, unrealistic and complicated
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)