Both Uses of
grandeur
in
The Souls of Black Folk
- There is little beauty in this region, only a sort of crude abandon that suggests power,—a naked grandeur, as it were.†
Chpt 7 *grandeur = impressive magnificence
- Little of beauty has America given the world save the rude grandeur God himself stamped on her bosom; the human spirit in this new world has expressed itself in vigor and ingenuity rather than in beauty.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
impressive magnificence -- usually on a grand (large) scale