| 单词 | grandiloquent |
| 例句 | In a grandiloquent, newsreel-style voice, the show’s narrator, Westbrook Van Voorhis, began his report: “Today, at the eastern extremity of the state of Pennsylvania, a remarkable construction project is transforming the face of the countryside.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Steve would speak to the warders in a condescending and grandiloquent style that they probably did not understand. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But overall, the whole enterprise was heavier and more grandiloquent than it needed to be. Review | An ‘Aida’ that aspires to give street cred to grandiosity 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Europe in the 18th century inherited a fancy and fantastic style of art, grandiloquent and religious. Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z In a sudden arabesque, for example, her frame exemplifies the radiant line and grandiloquent energy of ballet. Dance Review: ?Diana Vishneva: Dialogues,? at City Center 2012-03-18T22:17:06Z I wrote to the Telegraph after I saw Lewis's absurd, grandiloquent, voluminous list quoting a maximum of two lines of poetry, which if he's standing for a chair of poetry, is entirely absurd. Oxford poetry professor candidates clash over 'Elizabeth Taylor's eyes' 2010-06-15T14:02:00Z It's comparable in some ways to Thomas's recent movie I've Loved You So Long, though pitched at a yet more intense, grandiloquent level. Film review: Leaving 2010-07-08T22:09:00Z This grandiloquent action, an archetypal example of ballet classicism, is a crucial transaction within supported adagio, that singularly momentous idiom: With the man’s assistance, a female dancer blooms all the more fully. The Ambiguous Sexism of Marius Petipa, Ballet’s Towering Master 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z But while the musical setting is grandiloquent, Cooke’s tale is down-to-earth. The Unlikely Story of “A Change Is Gonna Come” 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Gone is the grandiloquent sermon delivered from a lectern in which Sheen spun buzzwords into a personal manifesto for truth in a universe of "fiction-spouting, canker-tongued liar mouths." Charlie Sheen hits New York - but what IS the show? 2011-04-10T00:08:52Z When he waxed poetic about his salad days as the page of the Duke of Norfolk, his voice turned light, proud and assured — grandiloquent, yes, but also creditable. Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z It is grandiloquent, even by Gilded Age standards. ‘River Crossings,’ a Contemporary Art Exhibition at 2 Historic Sites of the Hudson River School 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Inspiration for the “Spoils” series came from a number of grandiloquent covers of vintage 1970s novels that Mr. Piedmont spotted in a bookstore. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z Its use in Black Swan is self-explanatory – it is more obviously grandiloquent and excessive and appropriate to the fireworks going off in Nina's head. Black Swan ? review 2011-01-20T14:59:01Z Knowing the actor’s tendency to spout grandiloquent quotes and whimsical monologues, we invited the New Yorker Radio Hour team along to capture the outing on tape. Richard E. Grant Takes a Barbra Streisand Tour of New York City 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z In charge of that renovation were Philip Johnson and John Burgee — architects of the yet more grandiloquent New York State Theater, across the plaza. A Notoriously Jinxed Concert Hall Is Reborn, Again 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Although she expresses a pointed political opinion from time to time, it's never part of a sustained campaign, and it's never grandiloquent, the way some Hollywood peers can be. In 'Burlesque,' ageless diva Cher confronts her age 2010-11-20T01:42:00Z Chelsea Wolfe’s take on “The Modern Age” is smoky and slow and almost grandiloquent, and yet absolutely appropriate. Critic?s Notebook: Paying Tribute to Nirvana and the Strokes 2011-08-02T22:42:15Z It's the British version of Versailles: Louis XIV was an absolute monarch, and his grandiloquent palace reflects his absolute power. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z “Birthday Candles” nearly suffocates in such grandiloquent pronouncements and existential metaphors. ‘Birthday Candles’ Review: Another Year, Another Cake, Another Profundity 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z When his next album did emerge, exactly a year later, it revealed a very different Bruce Springsteen to the one who had so enraptured America with Born to Run's grandiloquent urban romance fantasies. Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished' 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z And I’m not sure why it needed to be art, apart from the desire to put its conservationist, preservationist message in a more grandiloquent frame. Review | Serious music, from Turkey to the Colorado 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z But, even in his most grandiloquent moments, he couldn’t have imagined the star treatment that crime novelist James Ellroy had in store for him. Review | James Ellroy’s new novel is an unabashedly retro tale of Hollywood’s sordid side 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z In part that is because it is so representative: grandiloquent and absurd at the same time; the words of a diva, uttered at a time when divas were going out of style. Beholder of Beauty 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z The people in Hawley's version of Kansas City's criminal underworld and its adjacent parts are men and women – men, mostly – naturally given to grandiloquent speech and extensive verbosity. In "Fargo," comedian Chris Rock gets dramatic as a mob boss whose weapon of choice is the monologue 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The opera was inspired by Thomson and Stein’s love for the oratory of the United States in the 19th-century, when politicians made grandiloquent, soaring speeches and public debates went on for hours before rapt crowds. When a Critic Put on the ‘Best of All American Operas’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z While some critics dismissed the records as grandiloquent and sketchily produced, we embraced their quirky storytelling and spontaneous energy. The inauspicious arrival of Bruce Springsteen 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z It's all impressively grandiloquent stuff, but when it ends, the singer strikes a note of humility. Beyoncé - review 2013-04-26T23:15:49Z Photograph: Simon Annand/Glyndebourne We're on a precipice, people; a precipice of Gods and monsters, heroes and dwarves, and some of the greatest/most controversial/most transcendent/most odiously grandiloquent music ever written. Too much Wagner? Try these instead 2013-07-21T16:47:24Z This formidable Broadway tenor divests the most grandiloquent Broadway ballads of the chest-beating grandiosity associated with several generations of leading men. Review: Jason Danieley Sings and Talks About Love at Feinstein’s/54 Below 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Such is the power of certain books when you’re young, even books that are critically dismissed as pulpy and grandiloquent, as Rice’s often were. Perspective | Anne Rice changed vampires for the better. And helped her fans become their fuller selves. 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z For all the wry cheek of those pieces, the concert ended on a grandiloquent note with Bruno Mantovani’s Chamber Concerto No. 2. Music Review: Eighth Blackbird at Miller Theater - Review 2011-10-17T22:12:58Z There are admittedly a few moments in the work's 40-minute span that are not so much grand as grandiloquent, but "Harmonielehre" as a whole is an authentic and indeed awe-inspiring achievement. Review: Spano and SSO skillfully serve 20th-century classics 2010-04-30T17:05:00Z Martin, "I will teach them who is the most grandiloquent food celebrity of modern culture!" The five most egregious quotes from Gwyneth Paltrow's dinner party article 2011-04-19T15:20:00Z The ballroom scene, with its crimson draperies and lugubrious manners, recalls the grandiloquent gothic style of Corman's Masque of the Red Death, and serves, very effectively, to embody the oppressively conformist society Shakespeare portrayed. English National Ballet: Romeo and Juliette ? review 2011-01-06T22:01:00Z “Sunshiny skies, clear invigorating air and equable temperatures mark a majority of the days,” the grandiloquent description said. Why Montreal wants you to visit in the winter 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z In this cycle, for once, the impeccably crafted Second overshadowed the “Eroica” that followed, here a frustratingly grandiloquent piece, lacking the cohesion to carry its mighty ambitions through the finale. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z This, too, harks back to the sort of television I was reviewing five and 10 years ago — heavily burdened, intentionally opaque, often hypermasculine and artistically grandiloquent. Review | There’s a little too much ‘Fargo’ in the new season of ‘Fargo,’ but the trip is still worth taking 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Voltaire’s observation “Illusion is the first of all pleasures” is the tag line of Monte Hellman’s grandiloquent neo-noir, “Road to Nowhere.” | 'Road to Nowhere': Trouble Ahead: Director Falls for Leading Lady 2011-06-09T22:50:55Z Brockmire speaks in melodic tones that dance between folksy and grandiloquent. IFC’s “Brockmire” pitches a perfect offensive first season 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Although she expresses a pointed political opinion from time to time, it’s never part of a sustained campaign, and it’s never grandiloquent, the way some Hollywood peers can be. Film: An Ageless Diva of a Certain Age 2010-11-19T04:13:00Z If that sounds grandiloquent, consider his history: Ai spent years of his childhood in a labour camp in the far north-west of China, on the edge of the Gobi desert. Ai Weiwei's world 2010-03-18T08:00:00Z Those latter-day films, he writes, turned the “grandiloquent and operatic” series into a franchise that’s “cartoonish and absurd, and more squarely aimed at kids.” Review | You think ‘Star Wars’ is childish? You don’t know the power of the dark side! 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z And be as grandiloquent, as pompous, as affected as possible: if Dan Brown's touched you in the place of your own essence, you really need to tell the world about it. 'The most gifted writer I've ever read': outblurb the Grossman fans 2010-07-06T09:25:00Z Dorn's poetry is many things at once: rangy and compressed, rough and refined, metaphysical and crude, slangy and grandiloquent, subtle and hectoring. Collected Poems by Edward Dorn – review 2013-02-01T16:01:01Z Colin Meloy, the grandiloquent bard at the heart of the Decemberists, plants his silver tongue firmly in cheek at the start of “What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World,” the group’s new album. New Releases From the Decemberists, Hanni El Khatib and Duane Eubanks 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z If a Hollywood producer is looking for a senior alpha male, primed to deliver lines of grandiloquent yet pithy wisdom at just the right moment, Freeman is most definitely their man. Ghosts, liberated women and Morgan Freeman: the films banned for odd reasons 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z But it is one that predictably becomes more complicated in the Situation Room than it seems at the podium during a grandiloquent speech. Biden Takes His Battle for Democracy Case by Case 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z It all seems a bit much for state politics but then DeSantis' grandiloquent rhetoric says pretty clearly that he's short term in Tallahassee. Ron DeSantis is tripling-down on the culture war — and running hard toward 2024 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z That was 14 degrees below average, and to be mildly grandiloquent about it, the coldest we have witnessed in the capital this decade. On Saturday, we climbed above freezing, but only for a few hours 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z All of which may sound like grandiloquent cover for demagogy. Populist Hero or Demagogue: Who Is Tunisia’s President? 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z “He’s so brilliant, because he invests ordinariness with such heroism, but without it being grandiloquent,” Greengrass says. 'News of the World' looks to illuminate a way out of 'division and bitterness' 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z In a field known for grandiloquent statements and frightening intellectual ambitions, Dr. Rubin was known for simple statements about how stupid we are. Vera Rubin Gets a Telescope of Her Own 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z Clive Lewis is equally effusive in The Times, praising adaptor Martin Crimp for "sinuous hip-hop verse that is grandiloquent and swaggering when it needs to be but is also witty and tender". Why James McAvoy's Bergerac ditches the Cyra-nose 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z In the latest installment of All the President’s Weasels, the political burp known as Gordon Sondland tried to cast himself as more of grandiloquent belch. Sleazy Sondland overcomes his amnesia and dishes the dirt on Trump | Richard Wolffe 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z It was inspired by a chance passing of Sir Aston Webb’s grandiloquent Victoria Memorial, across town, outside Buckingham Palace. Urban warrior in Nikes and a hoodie leads charge against white orthodoxy 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z Another competitive advantage was her grandiloquent marketing materials. Wendy Lister, grande dame of Eastside real estate, dies at 83 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z There was no mention of the aspirations of “The New Negro” in Battle’s grandiloquent gusts. Charlottesville’s Confederate statues still stand — and still symbolize a racist past 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Wood patented his design in 1920, a moment of particularly grandiloquent confidence in the power of engineering. Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z The post-election moment, when victorious candidates wax grandiloquent reaching across the aisle to accomplish important things for the American people, is as evanescent as a rainbow. Opinion | Before the post-election bonhomie fades, here is one thing Congress should fix 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The rhetoric of “Circe” keeps morphing too from grandiloquent/hifalutin to coarse/smutty and everything in between. Bloomsday Tribute to James Joyce, Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z In Trollope’s “ Phineas Finn, ” a character dismisses a radical politician’s letter outlining a reform agenda: “It is just the usual claptrap . . . only put into language somewhat more grandiloquent than usual.” What’s Another Word for Derp? 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z In no other art form is there so grandiloquent a concept as the Great American Novel. The highest form of flattery? In praise of plagiarism 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z But, just as Trilling recoiled from grandiloquent radical gesture, Robins seems to have renounced the biographer’s task to come to some sustained conclusion about her subject. The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Sánchez-Albornoz managed to escape the labour camp but for him, the Valley of the Fallen will always remain a grandiloquent witness to the brutality of the Franco era. 'It's shameful for Franco's victims': Spanish MPs agree to exhume dictator 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Defenders of that inaugural address supposed its detractors wanted Trump to be as high-toned as Obama or as grandiloquent as Kennedy, but that’s not the complaint at all – no one, after all, was expecting poetry. The riddle of Donald Trump: how a man of few words reached the pinnacle of power 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z But conservative judicial mavens have already made clear that outcomes-oriented jurisprudence is their thing now, even if they disguise it behind grandiloquent words such as “originalism” and “textualism.” Opinion | It’s time to make Republicans pay for their supreme hypocrisy 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z In Sunday’s presidential debate in St Louis, Missouri, he made the grandiloquent pronouncement that “coal will last for a thousand years in this country”. Elon Musk hits back at coal baron who called him a 'fraud' over green subsidies 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z He added a grandiloquent coda: “The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism”. The evolution of Mr Thiel 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Trump was grandiloquent about himself, his temperament and his ability to serve. Trump Rebounds in his Return to the Debate Stage 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z That grandiloquent but fuzzy pledge exemplifies his gambit: making impossible vows to disoriented voters which are all, at bottom, a promise to reverse history and revive a fairy-tale idea of America. The man in the ostrich-skin boots 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z They are grandiloquent, magnificent, magical, stupendous, fabulous, unbelievable, and extraordinary. Why You Need to Stop Saying 'Awesome' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Sometimes a Great Notion is in a class by itself, a grandiloquent impressionistic tour de force of its time with our prejudices, faults, and human limitations all on display. Editorials from around Oregon 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Such grandiloquent language did sound a bit pompous, frankly, although in retrospect it was tragically prescient. Journalists must stand firm 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Don’t put pressure on yourself to say something grand and eloquent, or grandiloquent. You, Too, Can Give Your Young Players A Moving, David Belisle-Style Speech 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The company’s earliest cards featured grandiloquent, multistanza poems about friendship, thankfulness, or love. Writing Mother's Day Cards at Hallmark: An Inside Look 2014-05-01T21:15:10Z Rhetorical attacks on paid family leave proposals have been less grandiloquent. Today's Economist: The Business of Paid Family Leave 2014-01-27T05:01:23Z Free from distractions, he delivers his analysis in the thick Geordie accent of his native Newcastle, and it is as ludicrous as it is informed, as grandiloquent as it is sharp-eyed. Vocal Acrobat Mixes Soccer Calls With Awe 2013-12-11T20:37:04Z His approach overall has been tough, realistic and thoughtful, but his rhetoric has sometimes been loose and grandiloquent. The Limits of Saber Rattling 2013-03-28T11:58:03Z They speak in uniformly grandiloquent terms about the tough decisions necessary for the good of the economy and the citizenry. On the cutting edge of ‘fiscal cliff’ lobbying 2012-12-06T02:14:00Z Naturally we think quite the opposite of God’s promises; we fancy they are grandiloquent and magnify things, and that the actual fulfilment will prove unworthy of the language describing it. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z This grandiloquent boast of Roreen Shouragh's set his mother and brothers into a fit of laughter, from which they only recovered when it was time to retire to rest. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The six great gates of the city of Shanghai have grandiloquent titles, à la Chinoise. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z The peculiar announcement of Ralph's host was so grandiloquent, and his manner so lofty and important, that the young railroader smiled despite himself. Ralph of the Roundhouse 2012-03-02T03:00:11.217Z It may be remembered that from this well-known poem Mr. Micawber’s Quotation was taken, as an appropriate conclusion to one of his many friendly but grandiloquent epistles, confirming an important appointment. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z Had Christina been in her normal health, the man's grandiloquent manner and language would have amused her. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z The editorials of the press became couched more and more in grandiloquent languages, reminiscent of Biblical passages. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z It was only to those whom he deemed suitable ladies that he distributed his precious and grandiloquent invitations. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z We Americans, caught by the revolutionary spirit of the French, make them too much our models, and run too much to grandiloquent speech, and fine moral attitudinizing. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z There’s a sort of grandiloquent, comforting smack about that good old word ‘independent,’ isn’t there? The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z However, Arango issued a grandiloquent statement, in which he explained his supposed action, and urged the Cuban revolutionists to lay down their arms and follow his example. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z Anti-slavery leaders in the Senate were confounded by this sudden charge and grandiloquent accusation. Lincoln, the Politician 2011-10-11T02:01:06.270Z Ben, strongly impregnated with the ‘Mysteries of Udolpho’ school, was wont to use grandiloquent words for every day purposes. Curiosities of Impecuniosity 2011-12-31T03:00:16.190Z The leader of the latter, indeed, Benton, commented upon both it and its author with rather grandiloquent severity, on account of its latitudinarian bias, and of its recommendation of a bank of some sort. Thomas Hart Benton 2011-10-09T02:00:26.053Z He accordingly invaded India, at the head of a small force of hardy fighters, who, in the words of Nadir's grandiloquent Persian biographer, "threw the shadow of their sabers across the existence of their foes." Stories about Famous Precious Stones 2011-08-31T02:01:42.217Z He could impart much knowledge of wigs to a wigless age, and talked in a grandiloquent fashion of Spencers, Albemarles, and Lavants. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z That species are or were produced by the operations of "Divine Intelligence" is merely a grandiloquent way of saying nothing at all. A Grammar of Freethought 2011-07-30T02:00:13.083Z The "Cosmic Urge," whatever that pretentious phrase may mean in the mouths of those who use it in grandiloquent fashion! Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z With a grandiloquent gesture he pointed out a diminutive grey and black turban throned in solitary majesty in the middle of a shop-window. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z He entered with a grandiloquent bow and surveyed the place curiously. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z "You see," he continued with his grandiloquent manner, "the demise of my brother and his son, who is unmarried, advance me to the baronetcy, and——" "Then you are Sir Arthur Ponsonby Pore!" blurted out Dum. A House Party with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:20.543Z Nothing is so distressing in an argument as to have a burst of grandiloquent sentiment set aside by a few words of common sense. The Widow Barnaby Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:15.707Z Even discounting by ninety per cent the grandiloquent stories they heard, it was evident that the British still held the ridge, but were rather besieged than besiegers. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Haydon answers in a gush of grandiloquent gratitude, promising to try every corner first, but intimating pretty clearly that he knew his wealthier habitual helpers were for the present tired out with him. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z I point out our shortcomings with unsparing directness and lash the boasting and the grandiloquent prophecies. Average Americans 2011-06-02T02:00:20.387Z Unfortunately, it appeared in the form of a pronouncement on the Sacre, at once grandiloquent and naive, and, to my great astonishment, signed with my name. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z It would be easy to retort to this Extreme Left: "Silence, pharisees, who allow the people to be massacred and then come supplicating for them; mute or hostile during the battle, grandiloquent after their defeat." History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z It was one of the ironies of Fate that at about the same time, the authorities at Richmond were rejoicing over Pillow's grandiloquent message announcing Confederate victory. The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry 2011-03-28T02:00:23.133Z He has been called "the founder and saviour of Canada," and if these terms are somewhat grandiloquent, it must be admitted that they are not altogether without justification. The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 2011-03-23T02:00:23.527Z Commercialism and a glittering pseudo-humanitarian internationalism found expression in the alternating victories of the astute Disraeli and the grandiloquent Gladstone. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z Mr. Cullen proved to be a hatchet-faced old gentleman without any teeth; but he had a pleasing voice, and Emmet's grandiloquent speech from the dock was greeted with applause. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Dare they not risk one shot, To make report grandiloquent Of aid they rendered not? Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z With a grandiloquent gesture the drainman swept the crowd with his eye, but no man responded. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z He had that grandiloquent way of speaking of the future which is characteristic of the Latin races—that sublime faith in himself which needed no justification. That Affair at Elizabeth 2011-02-14T03:00:36.587Z I think the good reporter who wrote this most grandiloquent article on myself, family and connections must either have been drinking too much wine, or else he is on the point of getting married! Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro 2011-02-11T03:00:26.280Z His grandiloquent speech and his play-acting made a great impression on the two accomplices. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z The whole thing was begun and ended so swiftly that this very grandiloquent and self-important quill-pen hath made, I find, an incomparably greater business of it than ever it was in itself. The Wayfarers 2010-12-30T03:00:22.387Z God neither speaks or desires to be spoken to in grandiloquent language which belongs to the courts of earthly kings. With God in the World A Series of Papers 2010-12-20T17:12:19.523Z He looked forward to the time when he could drop everything else and devote himself to this mighty project, and he received grandiloquent letters of encouragement from eminent men. The True Benjamin Franklin They flooded the island with grandiloquent proclamations and tried to bribe the people by making the most alluring promises. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Henry's unpublished manuscript now brought forth of his trunk proved to be a very long and absurdly grandiloquent essay on "Liberty." The Call of the Town A Tale of Literary Life In your own interest, I advise you not to be too grandiloquent about this affair. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II The badly constructed lines, their grandiloquent sentimentality, jarred on me; but in them I perceived a complimentary application that might imply much encouragement. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece To carry out the delusion to the utmost, every detail touching these earliest exhibitions was directed through “spirit rappings,” even to the insertion of grandiloquent notices in the newspapers. The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters A large part of his duties will be to strut about on the stage, and mouth more or less unintelligible sentences in a grandiloquent tone. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology The Cubans have a taste for prodigality in grandiloquent or pretty names. To Cuba and Back I do not think that even at that age I would have been so grandiloquent but for my alarm. Reveries over Childhood and Youth Virtually the able art-critics were divided into two camps, from which they issued grandiloquent manifestoes, and passed judgment on art and artists, past, present, and future. Fragments of an Autobiography This element simply enjoys the grandiloquent rôle of Bestower of Largess. The Itching Palm A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America It is interesting also to observe the same parallelism of style, no doubt with the same objects, in many old Egyptian monumental inscriptions, which, however grandiloquent, are scarcely poetical. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Bonaparte arrived at Toulon on May 9th, and issued one of his grandiloquent proclamations to his troops. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 The money-lender readily consented, thanking the prince for the favor done him, and adding, in the usual grandiloquent vein of the Castilian, that "all he had was at his disposal." History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 This relative of his, with his plausible and grandiloquent schemes, stood revealed a bankrupt swindler of the worst type. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley A priestess of life-glories, she magnified her office, and in its grandeur sometimes grew grandiloquent. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) F. was the most gentlemanly of oilmen: grandiloquent, yet courteous. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time Knott's grandiloquent forecast of its future, intended as a satire, has since been in great part verified by the city's wonderful development. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The grand and the grandiloquent Cathedral seem to gaze out over the town and the vast plain of the old kingdom of Leon and to listen. Cathedrals of Spain She blushed and laughed outright, not only at the boomerang effect of her grandiloquent description of the professor’s industry, but at the absurdity of her position. The Silent Barrier She was sometimes grandiloquent, sometimes excessive in her denunciation of popular evils and abuses, but her sincerity of purpose, her grasp of thought and keenness of apprehension, were felt throughout. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) Thank you, Bridget," she says, with quite a grandiloquent air: "put it there, on that table. Rossmoyne Nor must such anomalies between the type of the men and their deeds, between their abominable crimes and their high qualities, be merely made a subject for grandiloquent disquisition. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. I A bombastic account of a thunder-storm in Boston appears to have given occasion for the first skit, and it was scarcely necessary to do more than parody the grandiloquent newspaper language. Noah Webster American Men of Letters By way of contrast to these grandiloquent phrases, the eye is attracted to the surroundings. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. There was something theatrical and grandiloquent about him, and he seemed to pose like an actor who attracts admiration. My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 Gates," Tommy asked, without batting an eye at Monsieur's grandiloquent outburst—which seemed to me the absolute frustration of our plan, "we don't know this man. Wings of the Wind It stood grandly alone at the edge of the Strip, the grandiloquent Las Vegas version of Broadway or Hollywood Boulevard. Occasion for Disaster Politicians of the old school, indeed, shuddered at its array of grandiloquent maxims—"there are bombs enough in it," cried Panin, "to bring the walls about our ears." The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 With grandiloquent gesture he raised another of the tindery fragments and ignited it from the first. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Do those grandiloquent gentlemen state anything better than Epicurus, in opposition to these two things which distress us the most? The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero “It’s nothing at all, Miss,” said he with a grandiloquent gesture of a hairy, bediamonded hand. Counsel for the Defense Besides, the grandiloquent plans for travel and success which I had so confidently outlined to Burton must be carried out. A Son of the Middle Border He called them chambers, for he was nothing if not grandiloquent, but really they consisted in an attic in Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, above the curious club over which he presided. The Belovéd Vagabond "That was quite true, dad," he remarked with a grandiloquent air. The New Tenant He had received an indignant and grandiloquent letter from his cousin, of which as yet he had taken no notice. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite While it sounds grandiloquent to call it "the enclosure of the intangible commons of the mind," in a very real sense that is just what it is. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Such ideas, expressed in grandiloquent phrase, could not be regarded as indicating a pacific feeling. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) I almost expected to see German words on the post-office and on the tobacco-shop, and the grandiloquent Spanish seemed out of place; I thought the Spanish clothes of the men sat upon them uneasily. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia Behind them crouched the real legislators, the dead, the deputies in their winding sheets, whose presence was unguessed by these men of grandiloquent vanity, who imagined that they ever spoke by their own inspiration. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan "Then you had better let the blood of the Wittleworths cool off, my son," added his mother, who had no taste for the grandiloquent. Make or Break or, The Rich Man's Daughter The grandiloquent style of the regular navy vanishes, and in its place we find homely names; such as "Jack's Favorite," "Lovely Lass," "Row-boat," "Saucy Jack," or "True-blooded Yankee." The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 "All ready there!" shouted the marshals with grandiloquent gestures of their be-ribboned rods, the band blared out again and the teams began to move toward the west. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West From this point, “up and up to the heaven-scraped granite of the top,” Doctor Cook grows grandiloquent and vague, for at this point his true narrative ends. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America The hours moved slowly, and Henry began to believe that his grandiloquent speech—purposely so—had met with some success. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" He smiled amusedly at the thought of this hypothetical collection, and the grandiloquent tone in which he referred to it. The Silver Butterfly This grandiloquent decree destroyed the effect of the armament. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration "Enough to blow you all to pieces before an hour," was the grandiloquent reply. Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15) The Romance of Reality In its wrapping of brown paper and twine it suspiciously resembled a child's toy, and Prince Michael's grandiloquent manner added a touch of buffoonery to a farewell scene made poignant by a woman's tears. A Son of the Immortals These Extension Schools are advertised by posters just like a country circus, except that the language is less grandiloquent. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization A very grandiloquent Goat Sat down to a gay table d’hôte; He ate all the corks, The knives and the forks, Remarking: “On these things I dote.” The Jingle Book The extravagant and grandiloquent diction of his early dedications read like commonplace prose when compared with the inflated verbosity of his later dedications to Queen Anna. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 In the depth of mortal anguish, or at the climax of human joy, we do not use a grandiloquent and incomprehensible phraseology. Mushrooms on the Moor And ten years before that it was something even more grandiloquent. Nights in London The muser felt two distinct senses, one that a sweet voice had touched the quick of his nature, the other that he had been grandiloquent in his talk while looking at the stars. Old Ebenezer “Hunger under the belt gnaws more potently than conscience,” said Pike, with a grandiloquent gesture. Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point I was so much impressed by him, that I failed to catch the whole of the grandiloquent speech with which he greeted me. P'laski's Tunament 1891 Mr. Chilvers loved to adorn his dainty discourses with certain words of strangely grandiloquent sound. Mushrooms on the Moor Nevertheless, Sir Joseph had never bestowed upon his estate, nor had it ever deserved, a more grandiloquent name than that which it had possessed of old. Orley Farm It would seem that the grandiloquent dedications prevalent in those days had not escaped her youthful penetration. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record This is a pretentious word, which, with its derivatives, many persons—especially those who like to be grandiloquent—use, when homely English would serve their turn much better. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Well, you see, Don Nemecio is the Alcalde, of his city, and he showered me with such grandiloquent Spanish phrases of concern for my comfort that I fancied he had outfitted me in extraordinary luxury. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier His blood warming with this exercise, he began delivering in grandiloquent tones the address which he had declaimed at school, when a voice from the darkness near at hand brought him back to his situation. Chums of the Camp Fire "I wish no trifling insinuations, sir," replied Ned, with a grandiloquent air. Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys The solemn, grandiloquent words had nothing of melodrama in them, falling from his grave lips. Play the Game! I think she will appreciate my confidence,” said Darsie, with a grandiloquent air, at which her companion whistled softly, his face twitching with amusement. A College Girl Those hills, inland there, are called the Organ Mountains; though, to my mind, the name is much too grandiloquent for such insignificant elevations. The Cruise of the Thetis A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection The same good accent and facility of expression and gesture, the same native eloquence, grandiloquent similies, philosophical allusions and vivid descriptions, not only concerning things great and important, but things commonplace and everyday. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Like most of his race, he is fond of grandiloquent language, and his rapturous expressions, as he lights up some fine point of view, are at times fine specimens of glorification. The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Among them all there was but one of two floors, a substantial red-brick little house with a most grandiloquent chimney-stack. Little Novels of Italy He says that an enlightened bourgeoisie will be just as likely to be Socialist as the working classes, and that therefore the class struggle is merely "a grandiloquent and aggressive figure of speech." Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement The incantations in which the fire-god is exalted in grandiloquent terms belong to the finest productions of this branch of the religious literature. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Indeed, judged by Anglo-Saxon habit, they would be termed grandiloquent and verbose. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development His advertisements too, so unique in their grandiloquent phraseology, will not soon be forgotten by those who relish such things. Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 As a cripple displays his wounds and sores, proudly, so Wilson Avenue throws open its one-room front door with a grandiloquent gesture as it boasts, "Two hundred and fifty a month!" Gigolo "I came from a land," said Mr. Mole, with a grandiloquent flourish, "where we despise physical suffering." Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series And you, sir, with your thunderous and grandiloquent Liszt Ballade, do you call that pianoforte music, that constant striving for an aping of orchestral effects? Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques The orthodox economists are in the unenviable position of having taken their morals from the exploiter and of having translated them into the grandiloquent language of high public policy. A Preface to Politics From the towers and walls of New York there fell a breath, a grandiloquent language, a stridency and a glory, that were Wagner's indeed. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers I wrote each at the top of a separate page on a scratch- block, intending to fill them out in the usual somewhat grandiloquent fashion which seems to belong to that kind of literature. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The money-lender readily consented, thanked the prince for the compliment, and, in the usual grandiloquent vein of Castilian courtesy, told Carlos that all he had was at his disposal. Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII A really magnificent and grandiloquent appeal to the boy's sense of honour and a homily on the dignity of labour were abruptly terminated by shrill cries resounding from the house. Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Hilary Vance, who was very busy, fell to work again, and after his manner, grew grandiloquent about the pleasures of the day before, which he had spent in the country. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Echoing the fashion of the day, painting became pompous, theatrical, grandiloquent—a mass of vapid vanity utterly lacking in sincerity and truth. A Text-Book of the History of Painting "Never," said General Banks, in his somewhat grandiloquent fashion. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The House of Assembly of 1833 was the youngest constituent body in America, but it was not one whit behind any of them in stately parliamentary pageant and grandiloquent language. The Story of Newfoundland His language is free, perfectly clear, often redundant, sometimes grandiloquent, and usually addressed more to the pit than to the boxes. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Exactly as it stands in the Nairne Papers probably Dundee did not deliver it; the style being somewhat more grandiloquent than he was in the habit of employing. Claverhouse His work showed great intelligence and had an elevated grandiloquent style about it that was impressive. A Text-Book of the History of Painting The glass door was thrown open for him to pass through, with a gesture that was positively grandiloquent. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" "It is just the usual claptrap," said Mr. Low, "only put into language somewhat more grandiloquent than usual." Phineas Finn The Irish Member In the grandiloquent style of the autobiographical prefaces, we may say that they recall to us the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the Political Testament of Richelieu, and the Conversations of Napoleon at St. Helena. Studies in Early Victorian Literature It would seem that the grandiloquent dedications prevalent in those days had not escaped her youthful penetration. Memoir of Jane Austen His paintings are impressive, decoratively splendid, but they often smack of the stage, and are more frequently grandiloquent than grand. A Text-Book of the History of Painting There are two pulpits, one occupied by a man who expounds the Bible, while in the other a woman responds with the grandiloquent platitudes of Mrs. Eddy. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin It is extraordinary the grandiloquent language which even the most humble peasant will use, and he speaks with the polished ease of a gentleman. The Land of the Black Mountain The Adventures of Two Englishmen in Montenegro The restraints upon Mr. Maguffin's eloquence being removed, it flowed in a grandiloquent stream. Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life If the little old fellow grows grandiloquent or garrulous at times—he did that. When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth After Alexander, painting passed still further into the imitative and the theatrical, and when not grandiloquent was infinitely little over cobbler-shops and huckster-stalls. A Text-Book of the History of Painting The springs of emotion, touched potently as they had been by the surging recollections of the last half-hour, were faintly stirred again in Miss Redmond's heart by the stranger's grandiloquent words. The Stolen Singer Undesirable qualities are the diffuse, verbose, redundant, inflated, prolix, ambiguous, feeble, monotonous, loose, slip-shod, dry, flowery, pedantic, pompous, rhetorical, grandiloquent, artificial, formal, ornate, halting, ponderous, ungrammatical, vague, and obscure. Talks on Talking In an attempt to wax eloquent he is likely to become grandiloquent, bombastic, ridiculous. Public Speaking Under her breath she repeated over and over, lest she forget some of its polysyllables, a sentence which was half-incomprehensible to her, yet which was sonorous enough and grandiloquent enough to impress her deeply. Destiny He is grandiloquent and turgid to an extent which often obscures his meaning. Anglo-Saxon Literature It was grandiloquent, and it often took long to reach the point. The Stolen Singer Perhaps it was the consciousness that he was using rather grandiloquent language in the wording of this enigmatical little speech, that caused the good professor to look so red and embarrassed. Bressant "As to Chaldea shooting Pine—" "Leave it to me, leave it to me, ma'am," said the old gypsy with a grandiloquent wave of her dirty hand. Red Money Some announced themselves with the usual grandiloquent generalities. The Ramrodders A Novel He turned a grandiloquent, deaf ear; Powell fidgeted and studied his newspaper; she persisted, determined that no man should come between her and her own order for coffee, cornbread and beefsteak. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years The letters are current, witty, and simple; the published work is stilted and grandiloquent. English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction I feel as if I could be grandiloquent on this interesting occasion," twisting his scalp round, "but raley I must forego any such exertions. The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana "Yes, and if I could think of more grandiloquent words to express him, I'd use them," said Marise defiantly, launching out into yet more outrageous flights of rhetoric. The Brimming Cup He was eloquent in public, grandiloquent in private. The Altar Steps "God knows, I do," he replied without hesitation in the grandiloquent tone he loved to assume upon occasions. The Wheel of Life This sounds somewhat grandiloquent, but it seems to me somewhat like the truth. Sister Teresa The handwriting is exceedingly neat and clear; and the style, though often grandiloquent, is creditable to a writer in his station. Montcalm and Wolfe Burgundian officials revelled in grandiloquent phrases—which this time bored Charles, He cut short the harangue impatiently, took the floor himself, and made a statement of the injuries he had suffered. Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 The appeal took the form of a letter, dated August 27th, 1895, by the author to the Irish Press, under the quite sincere, if somewhat grandiloquent, title, "A proposal affecting the general welfare of Ireland." Ireland In The New Century They have excessive reverence for grandiloquent language, and the less they understand of it the better they like it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 Queed cut him short; he felt that he could not bear one of the old man's grandiloquent speeches now. Queed The idea, then, of a nation is a grandiloquent fallacy in the interests of commerce and ambition, political and military. Prose Fancies (Second Series) Some sheets of paper were scattered near him, on which he had written an incoherent and grandiloquent confession. Harvest My lord, I am constrained to believe, that all Vivenza can not be of the same mind with the grandiloquent chief from Hio-Hio. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II It appears to have been written in good faith, and for this reason the incongruity of such a grandiloquent rhapsody on such a prosaic subject is all the more noticeable. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 James's combats, adventures, skirmishes, disguises, trials, and escapes, and Bulwer's sentimental and grandiloquent romances, had begun to pall upon the public taste. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The punctilious etiquette, the wigs, the powder, the patches, the grandiloquent speechifyings, the stately bows and graceful curtsies, the prevalence—nay, the domination—of taste, what a business it all was! Haydn And its success may have been partly owing to its faults, inasmuch as the public ear, long used to rhyme, needed some compensation in the way of grandiloquent stuffing, which was here supplied in abundance. Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Her only remaining work was a life of her father, written in an extraordinarily grandiloquent style. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and grandiloquent. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Others produced, from bamboo tubes, parchments of equally royal origin, setting forth in grandiloquent Spanish the confidence reposed by the Sovereign in such and such a cabecilla. The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon When music in London came to life again, both Haydn and Salomon were much in evidence, but the Salomon concerts were now given under a more grandiloquent title, following the fashion of the time. Haydn As the Scout Master made this elaborate announcement in his most grandiloquent manner, the boys responded laughingly, clapping their hands appreciatively, but uttering no word. The Boy Scouts of the Geological Survey With much grandiloquent argument, in the stately, old-school style, they bemoaned the breaches which they charged him with making in the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II But ink flowed in place of blood, and the newspapers were filled with a mass of silly, grandiloquent, blustering, insolent, and altogether pitiable stuff. Abraham Lincoln, Volume I One of my visits this morning was to a certain Miss ——, whose rather grandiloquent name and very striking style of beauty exceedingly well became the daughter of an ex-governor of Georgia. Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 And he had pompous, grandiloquent manners, and wore white gaiters and a long hanging eye-glass. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections One of the greatest frequenters of the club was a man whose inventions," with a grandiloquent gesture, "revolutionized the industries of the world. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator The genial Bud placed a chair for her with grandiloquent courtesy. Jim Waring of Sonora-Town Tang of Life Taste and good judgment will help you to avoid the unsuitable or grandiloquent. Composition-Rhetoric The bombastic spread-eagle orator, the grandiloquent gas bag, the highfaluting stump speaker gain few verdicts and win small applause except from their clients. By Advice of Counsel One of the documents prepared at that time contained grandiloquent passages that were a portent of coming events—though I was ignorant of the fact. A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography These women write poor novels because they aim at fine writing, and believe they must be learned and grandiloquent. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy He knew that he could, better than any man living, pander to the popular appetite for the melodramatic, for the grandiloquent, and for the obscene. The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes With this grandiloquent subterfuge Carteret turned to his next article on white supremacy. The Marrow of Tradition Pesquiera issued a bloodthirsty proclamation, in the usual grandiloquent language of Spain, calling all patriotic Mexicans to arms, to exterminate the invaders and to preserve their homes. Building a State in Apache Land It would have been a trifle too grandiloquent had he not been laughing. Alcatraz Turning imaginary periods with certain grandiloquent phrases concerning delicacy of feeling and high sense of honour, he arrived at the second landing, where he paused to take breath. M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." Barker made his grandiloquent announcement about the wonderful act about to be seen, and her eyes wandered to the distant church steeple. Polly of the Circus I was full of pity and a sort of tenderness for my aunt Susan, who was doomed to follow his erratic fortunes mocked by his grandiloquent promises. Tono Bungay After all those months of preparation, after all those grandiloquent resolutions, after all the arrogant presumption of the League! The Octopus : A story of California Adj. speaking &c., spoken &c. v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent &c. Roget's Thesaurus Hackers at their most grandiloquent perceive themselves as the elite pioneers of a new electronic world. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier To tickle the ears of the groundlings, this must have been delivered in grandiloquent mimicry with all the paraphernalia of the tragic style. The Dramatic Values in Plautus Life is a beehive, Miss Parlow," said Alma, her rather grandiloquent and apiarian simile highly inaccurate, "some of us are the drones, some the workers, and some the queens. Star-Dust Why I have known the weather in this grandiloquent condition for a whole day. Homeward Bound or, the Chase It is probably nothing more than a grandiloquent way of saying that he was a precocious child, who impressed his elders. Josephus Other groups, such as the "Farmers of Doom," closely allied to LoD, recognized this grandiloquent quality, and made fun of it. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier She resented the question, and the tone of it, remembering his first grandiloquent letter to her. Delia Blanchflower You hence have recourse to these grandiloquent arguments to shove words of counsel down my throat! Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books So the male dancers are quiet, but even grandiloquent, their feet nimble, their bodies wild and confident. Twilight in Italy "You pay your fourpence and takes your choice," I said, with an intended grandiloquent sweep of my hand towards the dozen derelict beds. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 He answered the cordial greeting with warm words of thanks in the grandiloquent manner usual to him on such occasions. Casanova's Homecoming There is nothing like taking all you do at a moderate estimate: it keeps mind and body tranquil; whereas grandiloquent notions are apt to hurry both into fever. Villette To pass an idle life reeling off grandiloquent speeches and foolish quibbles, is the part of a madman. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 The bridegroom of but a day or two said this somewhat grandiloquently, but he was not disposed to be vain or grandiloquent a little later. The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man We prospected and took up new claims, put "notices" on them and gave them grandiloquent names. Roughing It, Part 3. Not content with his Christian name Lucilio, he assumed the grandiloquent and high-sounding cognomen of Julius Caesar, wishing to attach to himself some of the glory of the illustrious founder of the Roman empire. Books Fatal to Their Authors Sir, if they really believed their own grandiloquent assumptions, they would feel that the responsibility of their mental training was greater, not less, than any one's else. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography The whole passage is, of course, in parody of the grandiloquent style of Aeschylus. The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 Heath did so, and in a rather grandiloquent summons called upon Fort Independence to surrender. Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched "Commence" is a very old word; it is used by the best writers; it is easily pronounceable and not in the least grandiloquent; indeed it has precisely the length and cadence of its competitor. America To-day, Observations and Reflections Esther and I laughed at the grandiloquent manner in which he spoke of the two potato-sacksful of books. The Mystery of Cloomber They spoke of Pope's grandiloquent dispatches, and they wondered what had become of Lee and Jackson. The Sword of Antietam A Story of the Nation's Crisis He made a grandiloquent gesture with a sooty hand. The Happy End He had tired of his Salmagundi fooling and was looking for variety when his eyes lighted on Dr. Mitchill's Picture of New York, a grandiloquent work written by a prominent member of the Historical Society. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived Sir Charles Grandison is a comical rather than a courtly figure to this generation; and the man whose manners may be described as Grandisonian is usually called a pompous and grandiloquent old prig. Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" Subjects relating to religion and politics were heard pro and con in articles, or rather letters, signed with grandiloquent pseudonyms and frequently marked "Papers, please copy" in order to secure for them a larger public. The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut Only the barbers seem to have preserved something of the old traditions: grandiloquent and terrible talkers, like the cooks in Athenasus. Old Calabria Victor Hugo is grandiloquent, and the others all have some serious fault or limitation. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne "O Doge of Little Rivers, I expected you in a gondola of state!" said Jack, with a playfully grandiloquent gesture, as Jasper's abundance filled the doorway. Over the Pass I mentioned his "residence" just now, and the term is truly grandiloquent in its application. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 36, October, 1860 He styled himself a Rationalist, a title then more honourable than it is now; and in grandiloquent language, 'spouted' on religious subjects to an audience admitted at a shilling a-head. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 Adj. speaking &c.; spoken &c. v.; oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken; eloquent, elocutionary; oratorical, rhetorical; declamatory; grandiloquent &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Alfonso excelled the grandiloquent poet himself in his love of pomp and worship; and as he had no particular merits to warrant it, his victim bantered his love of titles. Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 Aside from this important fact, and viewed solely as a novel, it is sentimental, grandiloquent, and wearisome. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World F. was the most gentlemanly of oilmen; grandiloquent, yet courteous. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia It certainly must have been exasperating for the general of the Continental Congress to be reduced to such expedients as tying a grandiloquent ultimatum to an arrow and shooting it into the beleaguered town. The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton I mean by this that she dealt most with the figures of the great world, but by no means in a grandiloquent, consequential, or Beaconsfieldian sense. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography With a grandiloquent front and a superb bluff they would organize a company to build a railroad from this to that point; an undertaking costing millions, while perhaps they could not pay their board bill. Great Fortunes from Railroads The debts still pursued him, and after two years of grandiloquent misfortune he was thrown into the poor-debtors' prison. English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World It grew, untrammelled by codes, uncrystallized into formulas, a living thing always, not a subject-matter for grandiloquent manifestoes and more or less dignified squabbles. Proserpine and Midas He makes mistakes in grammar and construction, and is often stilted and grandiloquent. History of American Literature The truth is, I was not free from the consciousness that I had suffered some of the grandiloquent to appear in my manner while speaking the sentence which had provoked the ridicule of my uncle. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story The prospectus which Mr. Hammerstein published for his second season was magnificently grandiloquent in its promises, but the season itself marvelous in its achievements. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time And then, having uttered these somewhat grandiloquent words, he shut himself up as though there were no longer any need for discussing the subject. Castle Richmond Merri, who had embarked on his proposal with grandiloquent phraseology, suddenly paused, almost awed by that strange, hysterical laughter. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel Well, sir, that sounded so infernally grandiloquent to Old Man Grant that his hand actually trembled with emotion as he signed it—at my suggestion. Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley Like other great masters of a decorative style, he frequently becomes pompous and grandiloquent. Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America He was not the only man specially interested either; seniour councel on both sides had its grandiloquent eye on the new-comer, so to speak - interested to know how he would acquit himself. Winding Paths Philosophy, especially in the hands of a writer of German, presents inexhaustible opportunities for vague and grandiloquent language. Concerning the Spiritual in Art So we unstrapped our belongings from the back of the beast, and the old fellow whose grandiloquent title was "Master of the Herds," led it away. Ayesha, the Return of She The boldness of my grandiloquent and bombastic expressions roused my uncle Adolph's alarm and astonishment. My Life — Volume 1 Theos smiled,—the grandiloquent manner of this self-important individual amused him. Ardath Having been enjoined what to say by his commander, this good man and valiant soldier betook himself to the preparation of these grandiloquent articles. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter Sonorous, rather grandiloquent, it is a study in declamation, the declamation of the slow movement in the F minor concerto. Chopin : the Man and His Music He is very shabby now in spite of all I can do with my needle, but he becomes more grandiloquent and consequential all the time. The Hohenzollerns in America It may be even grandiloquent, but still that makes no difference! Yama: the pit When the moment demands it, he is pompously grandiloquent; in dealing with a delicate situation, he becomes involved and obscure. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy It was only in the intellectual domain that she evinced pretentiousness and grew grandiloquent; talking of her private affairs, she was very direct and simple, with no inclination to unhealthy ways of thought. Our Friend the Charlatan But the contrast between the grandiloquent words and the ridiculous figure which uttered them was too much for him. The Window-Gazer "Not so grandiloquent, my little abbe," replied De Bouillon, superciliously. Prince Eugene and His Times I look on them as one of the famous proud bulletins for which your emperor is noted, and to whose overbearing and grandiloquent language all Europe is accustomed. Andreas Hofer I little thought when I occupied the position of a gentleman, Mr. Meekin"—the cunning scoundrel had been piously grandiloquent concerning his past career—"that I should be reduced to this. For the Term of His Natural Life He seeks a great advantage with a modest air, in contrast to the Greek who seeks a modest advantage with a grandiloquent air. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy Very well," she said, in a tone that was intended to be grandiloquent, but which failed grievously; "I will tell him that he has your permission to think a second time on this matter. Doctor Thorne The Chancellor wrote him in his most grandiloquent style. The Lady of the Shroud This society bore the grandiloquent name "Heroes of America" and had extended its operations into Tennessee and North Carolina. The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South The house, in spite of its grandiloquent title, was of excessively shabby exterior. The Champdoce Mystery Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan—to an ant or a flea—such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent. Moby Dick, or, the whale "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. War and Peace "No, I am studying," answered the young man, somewhat surprised at the grandiloquent style of the speaker and also at being so directly addressed. Crime and Punishment Applied to any other creature than the Leviathan—to an ant or a flea— such portly terms might justly be deemed unwarrantably grandiloquent. Moby Dick: or, the White Whale "Ah," said he, raising his hand with a grandiloquent gesture, "I have it; I can see it all in my mind's eye." Caught in the Net "I helped make it and I adore it!" said Rebecca, who was in a grandiloquent mood. The Flag-Raising The fame of Friedrich is high enough again in the Gazetteer world; all people, and the French themselves, laughing at their grandiloquent Dauphiness-Bellona, and writing epigrams on Soubise. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 Friedrich has still his hopes of Bavaria, so grandiloquent are the French in regard to it; who but would hope? History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 Witness grandiloquent Pauli our fatal friend, with his Eight watery Quartos; which gods and men, unless driven by necessity, have learned to avoid! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 The man had a rather grandiloquent manner which he never abandoned under any circumstances. The Financier, a novel It was all very dramatic and grandiloquent to tell the workingmen of the world to unite, that they had "nothing but their chains to lose and the world to gain." The Pivot of Civilization The Counsellor was laying aside his irony, that grandiloquent, crushing irony, weighing many tons, as enormous as a ship. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse By all the standards that you know he is the most egregious and grandiloquent and gorgeous fool in all the world. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million "I helped make it and I adore it!" said Rebecca, who was in a high-pitched and grandiloquent mood. New Chronicles of Rebecca To all his grandiloquent account of the bald-headed chief and his countrymen, the Big Hearts of the East, his cousin listened with great attention, and replied in the customary style of Indian welcome. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West The advent of the factory system, due especially to the development of machinery at the beginning of the nineteenth century, upset all the grandiloquent theories of the previous era. The Pivot of Civilization If she did less for trade and industry, she did more in the way of legislating and writing grandiloquent manifestoes. Russia If he undertook to boss or tease us more than to our fancy, we would subdue him with an imitation of his grandiloquent, "You forget that I am to be President of the United States." 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