| 单词 | grandiose |
| 例句 | Martin straightened, then began to speak in a grandiose tone. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z For a decade or so, Marsh and Cope’s mutual dislike primarily took the form of quiet sniping, but in 1877 it erupted into grandiose dimensions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z High Blade Xenocrates sat on a plush sofa in the grandiose mansion that had, until just two days ago, been occupied by the late Scythe Goddard. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He never forgot the grandiose, terrible sight of that tiny child entering the world, coated with all her bloody membranes, between the shrieks of her mother and the cries of the women bustling around her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His claim, that he had missed her at every major event in his life, was grandiose, he knew, but it was not entirely false. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But he also thought Dasch was unstable and high-strung with grandiose ideas of himself. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He would remain in there brooding for days, suddenly emerging to fire his warriors with grandiose schemes and wild ideas. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps she feared the grandiose love that had stood so many tests would not be able to withstand the most dreadful test of all: living together. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When one is lying on the floor of his bedroom exactly ten weeks and three days after his brother has vanished off the face of the Earth, he begins to imagine quite a grandiose scene. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Selfish and grandiose though Beck’s obsession may have been, it wasn’t frivolous. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He made a sweeping, grandiose gesture with his hands. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “It will take more than florid words and grandiose promises to persuade me.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Miss Petrocelli, representing the State, has presented this case in very broad and grandiose terms. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z However grandiose some of our individual ambitions may have been, nobody on Hall’s team ever really considered going for the summit without bottled oxygen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z As the student brought it up to me, Hemme smiled in genuine amusement, certain that the more grandiose my preparations were, the greater my embarrassment would be in the end. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Hanging Gardens, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was similarly grandiose. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Such grandiose declarations were commonplace during Ceaujescu’s reign, for his master plan—to create a nation worthy of the New Socialist Man—was an exercise in grandiosity. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I didn't want to think in grandiose terms like that, but it was impossible not to, because that night, catching my breath and looking up into the cloudless sky, everything did feel larger than life. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He possessed grand—some would say grandiose—spiritual ambitions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Monks Mound was the first and most grandiose of the construction projects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The oaken staff,” Lydia said in a grandiose, medieval voice. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Ernest spun a grandiose vision of how science being done right there on the Berkeley campus would change human lives, not just through advances in physics but in the fields of health and medicine. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The intrepid traveler was laid to rest in a grandiose funeral. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That was the grandiose name for the ballroom that now housed the library’s philosophy texts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I am a man of high taste,” he said in the most grandiose voice he could manage. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “They need me here more,” Zeitoun said, trying not to sound too grandiose. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Donovan’s arm swept outward in a vague, grandiose gesture, “You got me!” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z In fourth grade I embarked upon a grandiose reading program. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In his shabby, bereft solitude, Saul drinks alone and watches an old VCR tape from his previous life: a collection of grandiose “Better call Saul” ads. ‘Better Call Saul,’ a ‘Breaking Bad’ Spinoff on AMC 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Equally insulting to Arabic dialects and the Muslim Brotherhood, “The Misfits” is inarguably awful, its grandiose muddle of a plot unimproved by bored camels and barely clothed women. ‘The Misfits’ Review: Blood and Sand 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Banyai would never have described his career in such grandiose terms. Istvan Banyai, Illustrator Who Mined the Surreal, Dies at 73 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z It does not see itself as sitting at the pinnacle of a grandiose empire, though its role as a port and military base has been crucial to all of France’s international adventures. T Magazine: France Nouveau 2011-11-17T17:04:21Z Made at a time of hyperinflation in Germany, “Metropolis” offered a grandiose version — of a father and son fighting for the soul of a futuristic city — that nearly bankrupted the studio that commissioned it, UFA. The Full ?Metropolis? 2010-05-04T22:23:00Z “Writing a love letter to my mom” sounds kind of grandiose. Mike Mills’s ‘20th Century Women’ is ‘very long thank-you note’ to his late mother 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z His songs sometimes ended without ceremony, and he consistently cut short his own most powerful gestures, as if refusing to be grandiose. Review: Uncivilized Defies Conventionality in Concert 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Consider the synth-vocal bell chimes that open “Rose Gold,” a song as grandiose as its title. Review: Straight No Chaser and Pentatonix, a Cappella Sounds 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z At Mic, she was able to dabble in different jobs and negotiate grandiose titles like “executive social editor.” What Happens When Millennials Run the Workplace? 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z She seems earnestly interested in each man even if sometimes she’s obviously skeptical and other times apparently bored by his monomaniacal, grandiose or evasive discourse. Katarzyna Kozyra: ‘Looking for Jesus’ 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z But there is a significance to this comically grandiose assertion of identity that the casual visitor might miss. Art Review: ‘Judith Bernstein: HARD’ at the New Museum 2012-12-20T23:01:31Z If Ashton's choreography brushes against the superhuman, it's not through grandiose leaps or pirouettes, but his gift for distilling movement into the sublime. Royal Ballet: Ashton Mixed Bill – review 2013-02-13T17:50:49Z Young fans awed by the massive productions and installation art at this year's Electric Daisy Carnival might be surprised to learn that it wasn't always this grandiose. Watch a preview of the EDC documentary 'Under the Electric Sky' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Two separate and grandiose Italianate fountain gardens followed, along with other outdoor displays, and the original 200 acres grew to around 1,000. At Longwood Gardens, a new meadow for the ages Or rather, with a grasp of how to succeed in the music business that fell far short of his grandiose ambition, he formed Wah!, Old music: The Mighty Wah! – Come Back 2013-01-24T07:00:00Z So he invites Paul and Claire to an expensive and elite restaurant, where Paul does his best to disparage the grandiose surroundings. Books of The Times: ‘The Dinner’ by Herman Koch 2013-02-06T22:50:22Z Though the accident was a setback, the grandiose, unexpected destruction of the incident aligned well with Ruby’s expansive practice. | Sterling Ruby on Making It in L.A., His New Show in New York and the Power of the Art Market 2014-05-12T21:20:58Z But in “Unreal Estate” he gets nosy about grandiose estates, and these places tend to be gated. Books of The Times: ?Unreal Estate,? by Michael Gross - Review 2011-11-30T22:40:44Z “At a time of grandiose mythologizing, he marshals his considerable storytelling skills to demythologize himself.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z With a fine cast directed by Brad Malow, “Sky Boys” is sometimes as old-fashioned as its setting: no danger is insurmountable, no terror unconquerable, no dream too grandiose. | 'Sky Boys' : A Boy and a Building Help Shape Each Other 2011-02-22T22:02:27Z As David Chute concluded for IndieWire: the US Torchwood might be more grandiose than the British version but "it's still light on its feet and great fun to hang out with". Torchwood: Miracle Day - critical view from the US 2011-07-11T11:25:14Z His name is Eli Pate and he is obsessed with a grandiose scheme to topple the U.S. government by sabotaging the electrical grid system. Michael Koryta’s ‘Rise the Dark’ introduces a villain bent on taking over the U.S. 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z As opposed to the boredom of prosaic reforms, advocating for human rights is, in its own way, another grandiose and poetic enterprise where we, as a people, fight against exploiters. Mass Murder Relies on People Like Us: An Interview With Thierry Cruvellier 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z Editors at many of the fashion magazines bristled at what they perceived as grandiose behavior, in part because of the hallowed site he used for his Paris debut. Zac Posen’s Path From the Red Carpet to the Bottom Line 2013-05-31T22:16:15Z High self-esteem, by the way, is completely different from the grandiose, defensive sense of entitlement and perpetual bluster that characterize narcissism, which some experts see as an attempt to compensate for low self-esteem. Raising an Un-Trump: Don't just shield your kids from Donald Trump — use him as a teaching tool 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Especially one so determinedly unfashionable as Venice — a grandiose, over-the-the-top, melodramatic mix of political allegory and Shakespearean tragedy, set to hip-hop music by a white guy from the suburbs? Venice: A Hiphop Dystopia Comes to New York 2013-06-19T09:45:17Z You talk about this in the book, the way that your look and sound was not that grandiose, rock and roll, glittery thing. And she was: Talking Heads' Chris Frantz on their "Twilight Zone" sound & his romantic rock memoir 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z There was an opera singer wearing a floor-length beauty-pageant dress, a mariachi band heaving instruments to complex choreography, a leggy dancer gyrating in sequins and feathers, and a grandiose Spanish guitar interlude. Mexican ranchera star Juan Gabriel proves he still has what it takes 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Their temperaments were decidedly different: Elizabeth was self-assured and occasionally grandiose; Emily was quieter and more methodical, though her apparent equipoise concealed an inner turmoil. Two Sisters Who Changed the Medical Profession 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z It felt, especially to the grandiose kid that was me at the time, like one of those sublime serendipities in which big cities, with all their complexity and potential, specialize. Zaha Hadid Was Just Getting Started 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z “When I call myself a visionary, I don’t mean that in a grandiose way,” he says, before outlining a quixotic desire to build a “Hall of Fame” showcasing the school’s mostly unimpressive alumni. ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’ Catches Up With a Hard-Luck High Achiever 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Adds Jones: "I hate sounding grandiose, but the story rises above its parts. It becomes about the frailty of being human." Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones find mutual orbit in 'Theory of Everything' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The riffs, however, remain grandiose in his solo shows. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Nov. 21-27 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The grandiose vistas he photographed in Yosemite are not only sublime evidence of God's grandeur or America's glory, like the same scenes when looked at through the cameras of Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams. Eadweard Muybridge 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z But in what would be a baffling paradox, were this anyone but Berlioz, the Requiem is subtle and chastened more often than grandiose and bombastic. Music Review: Making a Mighty Sound for Berlioz, but Delicately 2011-02-14T23:29:09Z Head to the main cathedral here, for which Rubens painted his grandiose “Descent From the Cross,” and look at the eight figures bringing down Christ’s body in a torrent of sweeping fabrics and slashing light. High Drama, High Contrast: Finding the Baroque in Contemporary Art 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Much of The Trip relies on this dynamic – Coogan the somewhat grandiose figure, taking himself rather seriously; Brydon content with domestic happiness and more neighbourly fame, delivering the occasional levelling dig to Coogan’s ribs. ‘I like it when people think this is real’: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on The Trip to Spain 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Martin Bernheimer, then a critic for The Los Angeles Times, wrote that “Shapero reveals himself here as a superb craftsman, an artist totally in control of the grandiose variables at hand.” Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z Pond, an Australian rock band, toppled the stateliness of Britpop anthems into psychedelic turbulence, melting down grandiose riffs or pushing them toward screaming tantrums. Critic?s Notebook: Springsteen Gives Keynote at SXSW Festival 2012-03-18T22:27:10Z He thought “Fame” sounded grandiose, but the filmmakers went with it. A ‘Fame’ Screening in Central Park Draws Alumni Extras 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z It made about four and a half very good records — if you combine “Fleetwood Mac” and “Rumours” with the best of everything else — using dry, wakeful rhythm; grandiose emotional bloodletting; and rich long-tone vocal arrangements. New Music: New Albums Include ‘A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac’ 2012-08-13T22:29:39Z This might sound like a grandiose statement only worthy of a movie star, but I believed him. Canines of New York: a day behind the lens with The Dogist 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z So I’ve come up with some grandiose ideas about things I want to do, but “practically speaking” it just seems like a crazy fantasy that has nothing to do with an income. “Community” botches damage control 2012-05-24T16:00:00Z To get a sense of the potential for the grandiose historic structures, I headed a few minutes away to Sathorn Road on the back of a motorbike-taxi. Bangkok’s River of Kings 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Even the landline sometimes dropped out, usually after Rhys said something grandiose about the human condition. In ‘Perry Mason,’ Matthew Rhys Plays Defense 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Nothing that follows is as grandiose, which in a way is unfortunate, since the film is meant to be an epic. | 'Valhalla Rising': Robert Kane Pappas?s Documentary Nicolas Winding Refn?s Nordic Epic Spy Games With Ellen Barkin Marta Mondelli?s Troubled Beach House 2010-07-15T22:54:00Z Yet he was prepared to struggle past every social, financial and intellectual obstacle that stood between his schoolboy realities and grandiose dreams. Books of The Times: Alan Brinkley Tells Henry Luce?s Story in ?The Publisher? 2010-04-19T21:35:00Z In the 1950s the US was telling itself a mythic, grandiose, heroic story about the second world war and GI Joe saving the world. Censored gay sex in From Here to Eternity restored for new edition 2011-04-05T15:20:59Z Every morning, all sides of the political establishment — his family and friends, along with “the haters and losers” — must contend with Trump’s zigzagging proclamations, his grandiose promises, his spasmodic attachments. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z He was now the sort of person honored in the grandiose Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument at the center of his hometown, Indianapolis. Kurt Vonnegut’s POW nightmare: Inside the World War II battle that shaped “Slaughterhouse Five” 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z That’s particularly lamentable because Powers can be such a forceful writer when he resists the temptation to substitute grandiose gestures for his own hard-won wisdom. Review | Kevin Powers’s first novel exposed the horrors of the Iraq War. Now he takes on the Civil War. 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Not the personal, probing guilt of say, Roman Catholicism, but something far more grandiose. Come Sunday: how one of America's biggest preachers became a pariah 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z He’s erratic and demanding and grandiose and insecure, all at once. When Your Movie Is a Hit for All the Wrong Reasons 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z “Aquaman” is as elaborate as it is tasteless; it brings to life a story that’s as grandiose as it is inconsequential. The Superhero Movie as Secular Religion in “Aquaman,” “Bumblebee,” and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z “He was into doing grandiose things and that is what L.A. is.” This Preacher Would Be Happy to Share Your Bowl of Açaí 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The palimpsest includes a fox hunting club, an alpaca farm, a grandiose neoclassical lakeside house, and a community of nine houses. Glenstone’s landcaping as mindful as its artwork 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But at its less grandiose moments, the combination of expressive acting and kinetic action pays off in ways that are likely to satisfy both novices and adepts in martial-arts fandom. Movie Review: ‘Dragon (Wu Xia),’ Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan 2012-11-29T23:01:20Z We get the irony, or rather, the sarcasm: Metal’s grandiose racket seems completely disconnected from the banal lives endured by some of its listeners. ‘Days of the Bagnold Summer’ Review: 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z She doesn't always get to play these grandiose roles. Sigourney Weaver having a ball as a 'peacock' 2013-04-26T11:43:10Z Nineteen twenty-seven was also the first year in more than a decade that David Wark Griffith hadn’t released one of his grandiose films. In ‘The Mirage Factory,’ a Thriving Los Angeles Born From Humble Beginnings 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Were “design hostels” worthy of their grandiose labels? Haute Hostels Put to the Test in Europe 2013-04-26T16:24:14Z The sculpture, part of a building bonanza that has also erected gothic edifices, grandiose bridges and a triumphal arch, has been billed as the project's crowning glory. Alexander the Great or a warrior on a horse? 2011-08-14T13:50:56Z “Whatever the subject—be it bodily fluids, pop culture, or politics—terms that describe this sculptural strategy include grandiose and testosterone-driven,” Saltz wrote. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The reissue is an appropriately grandiose gesture for a band that’s never been shy about its larger-than-life ambitions. It’s time for the critical reappraisal of Def Leppard, whether you like it or not 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z But Rennes is a much less grandiose city than this flamboyant architectural welcoming would suggest. Overnighter: In Rennes, Away From the Crowds 2011-11-17T21:26:14Z "It was a much more enjoyable musical culture in many respects, focusing on songs rather than grandiose compositions and orchestral pieces." National Gallery's Vermeer-themed show gets musical accompaniment 2013-06-25T16:36:21Z We spend our hours playing epic-quest video games that stir the grandiose instincts absent from our daily lives. At the Close of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s ‘My Struggle,’ a Magician Loses His Touch 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Nor did Furtwängler step back from grandiose claims about the power of music, and his role as its savior. A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Joyce's claim to write "a chapter of the moral history of his country" was grandiose; the stories themselves evaded such easy description. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z None of its grandiose pavilions still contain anything worth seeing. Moscow's architectural heritage is crumbling under capitalism 2010-08-10T13:50:00Z One of the highlights of Cercas’s portrait of his impostor quarry is a tour de force imposture of his own, in which he captures Marco’s grandiose comic rhetoric — an imposture of an impostor. Unmasking the Spanish ‘Impostor’ Who Lied About Surviving the Nazis 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z And without trying to sound too grandiose, I wanted a meditation on a person as opposed to some record of him. Don Cheadle on playing the drug-addled Miles Davis in “Miles Ahead,” and the toxic costs of Hollywood racism 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z But it was Chanel that propelled him to rock-star status, as he sexed up the brand and lifted its profile with grandiose runway shows. Karl Lagerfeld: fashion's prolific commander-in-chief 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Johnny was capable of grandiose philosophizing while encountering a sunset; that was all. Extract: February by Lisa Moore 2010-08-06T08:53:00Z Yet despite his rather grandiose claims of being wooed by the best colleges in the country, he also admits that “the only offer letter I received” was from the University of St. Louis. Mindy Kaling’s brother is a bad spokesman for merit 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z It explores Moore’s interest with the subtleties of dub music, which is surprising given the artist’s penchant for grandiose dub-anthems. Skrillex: One Dubstep Forward, Two Dubsteps Back 2013-01-17T17:00:48Z With its grandiose, character-introduction opening credits and its "to be continued"-style ending, "The A-Team" is tempting fate in a big way. "The A-Team": A cheerful C-minus 2010-06-11T00:20:00Z The grandiose and frankly creepy Guiteau wrote so many letters that he became enough of a nuisance to be noticed by other members of the Garfield administration and family. Books of The Times : ?Destiny of the Republic,? on Garfield, by Candice Millard - Review 2011-09-11T22:00:13Z Furthermore, there’s a grandiose self-presentation, a swagger, that goes along with advancing your book as a Great American Novel that many women find impossible or silly. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z Tbilisi, Georgia, surprised me as a romantic city with houses clinging to the Kura River cliffs, latticework balconies, relics of the Ottoman Empire and grandiose modernist architecture. What a Trip: Georgian wine and the spirit of love on a vacation to the Caucasus 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Shot in the square, narrow dimensions of a cellphone video, it is a pocket opera of grandiose self-pity, a wild and uncompromising demand for attention, a cri de coeur from the selfie generation. Xavier Dolan’s ‘Mommy’ Depicts a Clashing Mother and Son 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z I'm so engrossed by Clark's description of flying buttresses – a supporting architectural structure that allowed early cathedrals to become taller and more grandiose – that I almost forget to snigger at the word "buttress". One man vs Civilisation 2011-02-05T00:03:00Z And the job title is changing, too: Mr. Martins was the company’s ballet master in chief, a grand, perhaps grandiose title; the new leader will be an artistic director. Who Should Run City Ballet? A Job Posting, Explained 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z So its main objective is to provide a grand tour of a humorously grandiose and showoffy world. Books of The Times: Kevin Kwan’s ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ Depicts a Cult of Opulence 2013-06-30T21:39:42Z Spector is gnomish, unstable and grandiose: "Extraordinary accomplishments," he says, meaning his own, "transform the grateful into an audience - and the envious into a mob." Pacino as a faded music whiz charged with murder 2013-03-21T14:43:15Z “But when you channel these big, operatic gestures into the puppet,” he added, slowly opening its arm in a grandiose gesture, “it’s beautiful.” It’s ‘Salome.’ But With Puppets. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z “It changes everything,” proclaim the film’s post-victory billboards across Hollywood – a grand statement that somehow, at this moment, doesn’t sound too grandiose. After the Moonlight fades: what's next for LGBT cinema 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Allen presents his Sid as the one sane man who, despite—or rather, because of—his neurotic inhibitions and practical artistic ambitions and ideals, remains invulnerable to such flights of grandiose and vapid thinking. Woody Allen’s Secondhand Sixties Radicalism 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z In modern movie terminology, “epic” usually just means long, crowded and grandiose. ‘Birds of Passage’ Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z There are grandiose failures driven by overreaching ambition. Review: ‘The Huntsman,’ a Study in Hollywood’s Overstuffed Playbook 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Despite a prolific filmography of grandiose art house fare that has often wrestled with the vast span of Chinese history, the filmmaker has suffused a dynastic war fable with elements of a slapstick whodunit. ‘Full River Red’ Review: A Song Dynasty Blockbuster 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z It was a grandiose artistic statement, and Washington hinted that it was the tip of the iceberg. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z For most, the games they’re making — with grandiose names like Rise of the Gods, Artificial Malevolence and Tactical Tech among them — are their first attempts and labors of love. Trial and error: Seattle’s board game designers and players work out bugs together with playtests 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z But the gal-dem team see it in less grandiose terms, as being true to their own experience. 'We are offering something people didn’t get before': inside gal-dem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Called “The Hotel de Luxe of the World,” in the grandiose verbiage of its founder and proprietor, Richard D’Oyly Carte, it opened on London’s Strand in 1889 — apparently not a moment too soon. The History of a Palatial Hotel and Its Famous Guests, From Kings and Spies to Presidents and Poets 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z But while it's grittier and less grandiose, it's still an epic drama, and the journey is very rewarding. Review: 'Dragon Age II' creates a new urban legend 2011-03-09T11:35:10Z That we’re too eager to conceive of Lear as a figure of grandeur may help to explain why on too many occasions, the play itself feels grandiose. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’ We had come to Cliveden, an estate run by the National Trust, a British conservation charity, for exactly this: an old-fashioned “Downton Abbey”-type of vacation, complete with grandiose architecture and brisk parkland walks. Cultured Traveler : Echoes of ‘Downton Abbey’ on Vacation in England 2014-04-15T20:58:55Z Magritte’s businessman father was aloof and grandiose, earning and losing several fortunes. Review | René Magritte was an enigma. A new biography tries to make sense of the genius. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The younger Mr. Speer’s impact on urban landscapes was ultimately far greater than that of his father, whose grandiose architectural plans for the Nazi Third Reich were never realized. Albert Speer Jr., Architect and Son of Hitler Confidant, Dies at 83 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The worst recession of our lifetimes, in other words, was in large part the result of our superiors’ longing to get themselves a piece of the grandiose. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z But it’s kind of a kick to hear this avatar of artistic seriousness – the woman Bono once asked to help remake the grandiose “One” – in such a lightweight mode. Mary J. Blige has a new album out. Has anyone noticed? 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z “How dare you? How dare you? How dare you not just mention us in your speech? You’re not going to mention us in these very grandiose speeches? That’s absolute hogwash.” Will the #MeToo movement catch up with Bill Cosby as his sexual assault retrial begins? 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The frugal Pope Francis decided not to used the villa - similar to but smaller than some of Europe's royal residences, judging it too luxurious and grandiose. Papal summer residence, shunned by Francis, opened to public 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, my grandiose writing projects were all going nowhere for the same tedious reason. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z "Yes, he was a terrible person, but his music was grandiose." Germany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th 2013-05-22T10:41:08Z First and foremost, it is a truly great film: enthralling, beautiful, dark, humorous, thought-provoking, suspenseful, complex, and grandiose. Ranking: The Disney Renaissance From Worst to Best 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z We meet in the lounge of the grandiose Piccadilly hotel in Janakpuri, New Delhi, an ugly northern suburb of the Indian capital, and a popular venue for gaudy weddings. Geeta and Babita Phogat: ‘Our father taught us never to be scared' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Guns N’ Roses prefaced its grandiose hit ballad “November Rain” with the instrumental second half of “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos, the obvious model for the former song’s guitar-hero finale. Review: Guns N’ Roses, Partly Reunited, in Its First Arena Performance 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z “Underground” made many choices that made it more immediate by making it less grandiose. In ‘Underground’ Delivering Justice Along With Escapist Entertainment 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Why is there a grandiose equestrian statue on the right? Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z This is the record’s lowest point; it’s one of the most appallingly grandiose songs you may ever hear. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Korn, Currensy and Tom Jones 2010-07-26T00:05:00Z "It's not as grandiose as some of the stuff I've gone for before," the singer said in West Hollywood before an appearance on "The Late Late Show With James Corden." Brandon Flowers' new solo album, 'The Desired Effect,' takes personal turn 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z The show derives its energy from two semi-contradictory attitudes: contempt for grandiose tech oligarchs and sympathy for the entrepreneurs struggling to unseat them. How “Silicon Valley” Nails Silicon Valley 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z As is his wont, Mr. Brown begins with a crazily grandiose prologue, this one a little more unhinged than usual. Books of The Times: ‘Inferno,’ by Dan Brown 2013-05-12T21:14:59Z The final day, we entered the most grandiose of the temples, Karnak in Luxor. Ancient History Along the Nile 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Yoo makes clear that when one accepts a theory of presidential power as grandiose as his, almost anything — from the George W. Bush administration’s use of “enhanced interrogation” to Trump’s institution-breaking behavior — becomes permissible. The Many Varieties of Donald Trump 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z SS: Well, I tried to think about the trends — I’m not talking about grandiose houses, like what’s happened to the Hamptons — that can influence the ways people want to live today. The 25 Rooms That Influence the Way We Design 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z It’s about something less grandiose than evil, less widely discussed–but at least as important: decency. Don't Look: Beheadings, Stolen Nudes and Choosing to Be Decent 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z At first, his father, Abdul-Razak, is a harmless buffoon with grandiose dreams. Review: New Novels by Paul Murray, César Aira and Others 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The succinct pieces of Opus 11 represented one of Schoenberg’s earliest experiments with atonality and a rejection of the grandiose gestures of Romanticism. Music Review: A Piano Tour of Schoenberg?s Career 2011-06-16T22:11:12Z As America just watched Eric’s final scene on the show, Chris deems the Rose Ceremony trite in light of the grandiose finality of death, which is true. RECAP The Bachelorette Watch: Connecticut Yankees In Andi's Court 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Joseph's characters illustrate the grandiose self-image of a country that hasn't quite been successful in backing up its lofty aspirations with actions yet. Manil Suri's top 10 books about Mumbai 2013-03-13T13:28:19Z Not in a grandiose or threatening way, but in a portentous one. Review: Henry Taylor at Blum & Poe Gallery 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z If what he says is helpful in deciphering the film’s aesthetics, it also sounds grandiose. Movie Review: Braden King?s ?Here? Raises Questions of Philosophy 2012-04-12T21:55:25Z As a matter of honour, no less than as a matter of writerly decency – perhaps as a mark of respect to mankind – he refuses grandiose philosophising or theology. Howard Jacobson: rereading If This Is a Man by Primo Levi 2013-04-05T07:10:39Z There is an instinct for human truthfulness, and an avoidance of the grandiose, in both these choreographers. Signs of Choreographic Life: Alexei Ratmansky and Mark Morris 2012-01-27T19:35:36Z The center felt grandiose, and it seemed to cater to suburbanites who visited it by car. Perspective | At 50, Kennedy Center can no longer be a cultural island 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z In the end, despite his grandiose designs on the city, he’s just a man of “outraged loneliness” who wants to restore everything except his relationship with his own son. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The audience in Copenhagen cheered loudly, and the bookmakers see her grandiose ballad "Rise Like a Phoenix" as a runner-up. Conflict follows Russia, Ukraine into Eurovision song contest 2014-05-09T13:45:02Z They are capable of thinking that a grandiose Las Vegas must have been a church. Books of The Times: Life After Apocalypse in Justin Cronin?s ?Passage? 2010-06-06T21:22:00Z Volatile, sloppy and hard-drinking, yet often irrepressibly charming, the grandiose Welshman takes Manhattan by storm, so much so that he's thrown out of his hotel. 'Set Fire to the Stars' vividly captures Dylan Thomas visit 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z By plastering the walls with imagery as grandiose as Westminster Abbey and as mundane as fading green wallpaper, these projections spoon-feed scene setting that should be left to the set design and audiences’ imaginations. Review | ‘The King’s Speech’ amounts to a stale retelling 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z One doesn't want overblown monstrosities, or for artists just to make grandiose versions of the kind of things they have done elsewhere. The Tate Modern at 10 2010-05-04T07:00:00Z It knocked down some doubts about so grand — and even grandiose — a scheme. Plans for a new LACMA seem to be aligning, but first some questions 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z “Crown Vic” sidesteps any genuine ethical consideration of his choices, deploying a melodramatic twist and some grandiose speechifying that seems to respond defensively — and simplistically — to current debates about police brutality. ‘Crown Vic’ Review: A Cop Thriller Abounding in Cliché 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The next four rooms, their grandiose high ceilings suggesting salons of haute couture, are filled with four decades of punk inspirations, right up to Burberry’s current silver studs. At the Met, Punk Without the Down and Dirty 2013-05-06T11:58:12Z However, the grandiose term has been quietly dropped, in favour of the more informal term "the Oscars" – hitherto the trademarked name for the gold-plated statuette itself. Oscar losers' silver lining – a $45,000 goody bag 2013-02-20T20:10:22Z Soloway’s oeuvre, and interwoven, as its grandiose subtitle suggests, with some gender studies pontificating. They Live in Public 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z But the first few episodes of “Ray Donovan” are disappointing — grandiose, predictable and painfully slow. Television Review: ‘Ray Donovan,’ on Showtime, Stars Liev Schreiber as a Fixer 2013-06-27T21:32:46Z The story is deepened with a distinctively European political subtext as the increasingly grandiose Mesrine engages in a running dialogue with various characters about the differences between gangsters and revolutionaries. | 'Mesrine': Drunk on His Own Notoriety 2010-08-26T19:53:00Z His earnest and righteously grandiose direction evokes, as few movies do, a craving for Michael Bay at the controls. The Robotic Familiarity of “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker” 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z He later consulted on Disney's grandiose Epcot vision, originally planned as a model city for 20,000 residents in Florida, and the two of them enthusiastically planned monorails for Los Angeles. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-06-08T17:15:49Z She bought and embellished the chateau on a grandiose scale in the 1760s. Labor of love French chateau on market for $30 million 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z And the show's final exhortations are more grandiose than need be. Review: One-man show describes falling in and out of love with Steve Jobs' Apple gadgetry 2011-04-28T00:40:34Z To what extent do you think this book and this journey says something universal about solitude, endurance and the human condition – or is that grandiose? Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z It’s the only Lady Gaga album in history that could stand to be more grandiose. Review | Lady Gaga’s ‘Chromatica’ is a collection of sad bangers, a club album at a time when there are no clubs 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z In a quintessentially epic tragicomic way, Trump’s grandiose narcissism, delusion, and assorted bigotries have become a nation’s shame instead of merely his own. The Donald Trump jokes are on us now: This public humiliation should have tanked his politics career — but it only fueled his fire 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Don't expect that sort of grandiose presentation from Los Angeles band Silversun Pickups, but their music is no less robust. Muse, Silversun Pickups: Big music, built for KeyArena 2010-04-01T18:56:00Z Is there a lesson to be learned about appropriating pieces of the past — especially when that applies to such a grandiose place as Versailles? Style: At Versailles, Rock 'N' Rococo 2011-07-11T13:01:16Z Sometimes his songs run right up to the edge of the grandiose and hold still, and that’s when he’s best. Review: ‘Salt as Wolves’ Sets Middle-Aged Burnout to a Blues and Country Backdrop 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s all very straightforward and sincere, in language that’s simultaneously plainspoken and grandiose. Born in the U.S.A.: When the president met the Boss 2012-05-28T18:00:00Z But at its premiere in February, “Monochromatic Light” — ill-advisedly expanded for a grandiose staging at the Park Avenue Armory this fall — had a patience and invoked a history all its own. Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z This may seem like a grandiose question, given how hard you’re working just to pay the bills on time. How to Fulfill Your Dreams When the Magic-Wand Fairy is Late 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Lippman creates a complex suspense narrative that interweaves story lines about Tess’s harried home and professional life, Melisandre’s grandiose schemes to win back her daughters, and the damaged lives of those daughters themselves. Review: ‘Hush Hush’ by Laura Lippman 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z A few years ago, that symbolism tended to be grandiose and fantastical, now it is bleaker and earthier, even dystopian. Design: Furniture Designers Are Shifting Focus 2010-04-11T14:52:00Z Now, we're talking about grandiose people — they physically were also two big people. Chef Lidia Bastianich reveals why she cooks: "Food is comfort, food is memory, it communicates" 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z Some Nazis continued their grandiose self-mythologizing even when the war was lost, viewing the destruction raining down around them as a Wagnerian “Twilight of the Gods.” It turns out ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ wasn’t so far off about the Nazis 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Yes, that sounds grandiose and utopian, but I’m reluctant to bet against one of the world’s top pop stars and the person with the most Twitter followers in the world. Op-Ed Columnist: Born to Not Get Bullied 2012-03-01T04:18:08Z To me, in front of Neel’s gorgeous, jolting pictures, even “dignity” and “eternal importance” sound too abstract, too grandiose. Perspective | Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The group’s 2015 release, “Time River,” was both grandiose and immediately rewarding, guided by melody. ‘They’re Doing It Out of Love’: The Big Band Rises Again 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life. Sheen media blitz heads to Twitter after TV shows 2011-03-02T13:01:11Z But biographers have observed that Thatcher’s anxious disposition, pretentious accent and grandiose manner simply irritated the queen. How to Survive a Royal Weekend on ‘The Crown’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z I don’t want to be grandiose in my expectations of the book, but if it does something like that I will feel like it was well worth the effort. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z Since then, he has resisted the more grandiose offers that have come his way. The Tate Modern at 10 2010-05-04T07:00:00Z “They’re full of ideas, sometimes ideas that get grandiose and delusionally unrealistic.” Kanye West Tests His Corporate Partners 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z And for all his doomsaying, he sees basic weaknesses in these challengers that, with enough American resolve, will stop them from “implementing their grandiose dreams.” New Directions for American Foreign Policy 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z With “Heaven’s Gate,” it’s a big surprise: the movie is a Western that depicts, in intimate and grandiose detail, bloody battles between big-time ranchers’ hired guns and the mainly immigrant owners of small farms. These So-Called Bad Movies Prove the Urgency of Film Criticism 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The grandiose opening of the Tchaikovsky concerto is ripe for overemphatic clangor; instead Mr. Lang played with an almost prim decorum and restraint. Music Review: Need a Gala? Tchaikovsky Is a Go-To Guy 2011-01-02T23:00:20Z Both are also given to pursuing grandiose fables of agonized American manhood, and sometimes find themselves fighting uphill battles against mediocre material. “Southpaw”: A gripping, conflicted fable of a white champ in an imagined America 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Two US-based reviewers, Marshall Fine and Christy Lemire, found themselves targeted by Batman fans, with the former reportedly receiving death threats after claiming The Dark Knight Rises was "grandiose, not grand". Rotten Tomatoes squashes abuse from Dark Knight Rises fans 2012-07-18T15:49:36Z Fix You” marked Coldplay’s most overt embrace of arena rock yet—grandiose emotions designed for stadium-sized consumption—but for all of its treacly lyrics, the song is genuinely touching. Why we love to hate Coldplay: Admit it — the thing you hate most about this band is how much you really like them 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z As Scientologists, we always figured he stretched the truth a little — to make a good story a little bit better — but we thought most of his reportedly grandiose and holy life was true. HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z It’s not merely a Robert Jacobsen project but a project to place Denmark on the world map, with something grandiose.” Scene/Seen: A Bold New Art World Is Lighting Up Western Denmark 2011-10-14T13:30:15Z “Epic” belongs to what might be called élite brospeak, a collection of idioms that together reach for grandiose adventurism from a position of the comfortably banal. An Epic Takedown 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z So, I fell in love with that grandiose music and still listen to it. Liza Colón-Zayas Swears by Brené Brown, ‘Hacks’ and Hugs 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Travel to thin places does not necessarily lead to anything as grandiose as a “spiritual breakthrough,” whatever that means, but it does disorient. Cultured Traveler: Thin Places, Where We Are Jolted Out of Old Ways of Seeing the World 2012-03-09T21:51:17Z “The Longest Day,” which clocks in at almost three hours, was a grandiose attempt, in 1962, to tell the story of the D-Day landings from everybody’s point of view. A Forgotten D Day Film 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z We were soon drenched in sweat, trudging along trails through the creeper-clad trees, but were rewarded with grandiose views over a swollen river and lakes that had burst their banks. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z It remains shimmering and glib and grandiose, and it still leaves me gutted. A Bob Fosse Film-Festival Diary 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z And both play those emotions to the hilt, unfolding with a grandiose intensity that occasionally tips over into high comedy. ‘Billions’ Recap, Season 1 Premiere: Money and Sin 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z What all this means in English: Jackson sees himself as a grandiose, Lucas-scale producer these days, and is busy developing two "Tintin" films, with Steven Spielberg directing the first one. Will Tarantino direct "The Hobbit"? 2010-06-01T21:30:00Z Hodlengräber reminded him of the dictum, attributed to Blaise Pascal, that opens Lessons of Darkness, Herzog’s 1992 documentary: “The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation – in grandiose splendour.” In conversation with Werner Herzog: 'Facts do not constitute truth' 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z His playing is crisp and vertical and grandiose; he often seemed to be headed toward some big argument about finality, or totalistic power. The Bad Plus Greet the New Year With a New Lineup 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z For “Urban Angels,” a septet to grandiose music by Karl Jenkins, Mr. Gold says that he was inspired by the cold, villainous Weeping Angels from “Dr. Who.” Dance Review: Tom Gold Dance Presents Two Premieres 2014-03-08T00:55:43Z Within these few square blocks, the Ottoman rulers commissioned grandiose palaces and other buildings that proclaimed the durability of their empire. Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul 2014-01-31T18:45:16Z To me this one looks far closer to the gathering dread of Requiem for a Dream than The Wrestler's classy bathos, or – God forbid – The Fountain's grandiose silliness. In which direction is Black Swan flying? 2010-08-18T16:10:00Z And this leads to the rather counterintuitive thought that the Broadway audience has an increasing taste for the intimate over the grandiose. Noises off: Hair cuts and Broadway casts 2011-07-19T15:59:04Z His words may come off as grandiose, but he truly believes in the potential of this approach. Spectrum's Donald Byrd asks everything of his dancers, and his audience 2012-11-28T23:59:27Z Those characteristics distinguish the second application of simplicity: wines that are not fancy, grandiose or gaudy. In Montepulciano d’Abruzzo, the Gifts of Simplicity 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Rentals range from the grandiose Blue Sky Ranch vacation estate in Black Hawk, Colorado, from $999 a night, to a modest room in a private Denver home for $80. Bed heads: Colorado’s Airbnb-style website for cannabis lovers 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The German film historian Siegfried Kracauer called Fanck’s movies “extraordinary in that they captured the most grandiose aspects of nature at a time when the German screen in general offered nothing but studio-made scenery.” The Idolatry of Glaciers, Rocks and Leni Riefenstahl 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Are those overly grandiose ways to describe the meltdown of a deliberately scurrilous tabloid-style website? Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness? 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z “Shadow of the Vampire” is a gory and grandiose metaphor for the torments and sacrifices made, extracted, and endured in the name of art. What to Stream This Weekend: Willem Dafoe in “Shadow of the Vampire” 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z And yes, let’s acknowledge that Mr. Mehldau’s new release probably won’t mollify anyone who likes to grouse about a perception of grandiose interiority in his music, let alone the cerebral quality often filed under pretentiousness. Brad Mehldau Evolves in ‘10 Years Solo Live,’ a New Boxed Set 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z That sounds like a weird, grandiose thing to say, but it’s true. “Master of None” co-creator Alan Yang on writing himself into cheerful Brian and his family’s powerful immigrant story: “All that stuff happened to my dad” 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z But Ostlund’s modest comic skills are tethered to grandiose satirical intentions. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The director, Ken Loach, who started out in British television in the 1960s, is not known for grandiose spectacles. At the New York Film Festival, a Defense of Human Dignity 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z “I don’t mean to sound grandiose, but I don’t believe anyone else is doing, or attempting to do, what we’re doing,” he said. 2016 campaigns are beefing up staffs. So are the media who will cover them. 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z They might be retorts to the grandiose paintings of Anselm Kiefer. Wangechi Mutu: An Imagined World Made Possible 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The actor is known for going to great lengths for his grandiose performances; for The Revenant, he went to extreme ones - including eating raw bison liver on set. Oscars 2016: the winners and losers on the campaign trail 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z This may be a grandiose parallel, but I'd like to think that hipster culture is the movement that turned acceptance of gay people for the better. Hipsters are agents of social change 2011-01-21T14:29:00Z But it never loses sight of an ego so grandiose that it becomes, above all, a powerful agent of paralysis. Year in Culture: Machinations, Criminal And/or Familial 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z Soon, he started selling antiquities out of his back room, and cultivating grandiose ambitions. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Aitken reports how his subject, as a young champion of steelworkers' rights, was scathing about both grandiose building projects and the decision to locate a steel plant in a site with an appalling climate. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z You might have seen some of the posters for Limitless: a rip-off of vitamin supplement ads, they offer the grandiose promise of "the perfect version of you". Bradley Cooper: boy to man 2011-03-22T21:30:00Z The grandiose adjective, by itself, was not enough. The presidency has been swamped by the Trump Aesthetic 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z There is something electric about the collision of the high drama and grandiose themes of Shakespeare with the humdrum nature of objects from the cupboard, Etchells says. My kingdom for a can of beans! A radical take on the Bard in 'Table Top Shakespeare' 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z There are countless design prizes worldwide, yet despite their grandiose claims, many of them are indistinguishable. Design: The INDEX Design Award Takes the Prize 2011-09-04T12:15:08Z And I’m sure that all sounds misty and grandiose, but what are the options? The Basilica Soundscape Festival Features an Eclectic Lineup 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z Critics claim the projected grandiose economic benefit is really a fantasy that will end up costing the state. Nicolas Cage supports Nevada film tax credit bill 2013-05-07T22:29:08Z That grandiose house ends up feeling empty and alienating. The War of the Roses at 30: still one of the nastiest comedies of all time 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Both works, grandiose pictorial enterprises as if looking down on the world from a hot-air balloon, push the orchestral sound to bursting point. Les Troyens; Le nozze di Figaro; Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel – review 2012-06-30T23:07:11Z That's all rather superficial though: Python is always slapstick, especially since it's talking about the grandiose. Where are all the right-wing comedians when you need them? 2013-03-12T15:03:25Z Others found this later Robbins to be grandiose and pretentious. A Robbins Rarity, ‘Watermill,’ Reimagined as a Chamber Piece 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z The museum initially planned to take longer for the expansion — and to send many of its treasures during that time on what Monsignor Verdon called a “grandiose world tour” that would end in New York. Museum Draws Donatello From Italy 2014-04-27T22:02:51Z The train itself, outfitted in tones of sea foam, felt more like a clanging convoy than the grandiose high-speed numbers I’d ridden thus far. Personal Journeys: All Aboard the Orient Local 2014-04-23T21:47:59Z My paternal grandfather travelled to Belgrade to be there for the grandiose funeral. My Mother and the Failed Experiment of Yugoslavia 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z While reminiscing, Ms. Collins was never grandiose or boastful. Review: Judy Collins Performs at Cafe Carlyle 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Or maybe just that his conversations with his subjects were so grandiose that he hasn’t been able to translate them into visual form, as the show’s press materials suggest he meant to. Art Review: ‘Alexandre Singh: The Pledge’ at the Drawing Center 2013-01-17T20:50:38Z Arthur O'Connor, a teenager gripped by grandiose genealogical fantasies, ran at Victoria with an unloaded, broken pistol in 1872. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z Beyoncé tore open these issues in grandiose, sometimes gothic fashion on “Lemonade,” and Jay-Z addressed them in his unusually introspective album “4:44” last year. Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s Ode to Happiness in “Everything Is Love” 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Too grandiose for a casual meeting in somebody’s living room? Perspective | Feeling discouraged about the state of the world? Drop in on a book club. 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z He is known for speaking about his work in a way that is both generic and grandiose. Jeff Koons Unveils His Iffy “Bouquet of Tulips” for Paris 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z Franco may be, at first blush, an odd choice to topline the tale of a young illusionist with a grandiose attitude who is forced to flee a traveling circus. James Franco in early talks for "Oz" 2011-02-05T00:42:00Z The wall label describes it as “a grandiose summary of graffiti’s history and future,” its lettering intended “as weapons in a war against authoritarian control of communications.” Review | From Basquiat to ‘Black Panther’: How graffiti went mainstream 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z “Thank you for letting me attend this historic occasion,” Mr. Buckley told the crowd, neatly finding the seam between the grandiose and the comic. How Red Wing Became William F. Buckley Jr.'s Favorite Peanut Butter 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z With his grandiose vision of winning, he’s the ultimate fantasist and, in his mortal dependence on what actually happens, the ultimate realist. The Mesmerizing Chaos of “Uncut Gems” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Then there was Secret Cinema's grandiose homage to Blade Runner. Guerilla scientists infiltrate Secret Garden Party 2010-07-23T17:58:00Z That he ended up a drug-addled paranoiac with grandiose delusions about his world-historical significance is one of the great tragedies not only of American religion, but also of American leftist politics. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z But what makes Matthews of perennial fascination is that many of his grandiose claims about his life and times turned out to be absolutely true. Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise - review 2012-11-09T22:55:02Z As with most EDM artists, Flume’s songs are enveloping and grandiose. EDM star Flume blazes a new path 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z It opens with a big musical number, very grandiose, very Björk. What's the best arthouse film that makes no sense? 2010-10-20T11:00:00Z A brusque, arrogant blowhard, blind in one eye, he regales his fellow artists in a pub with grandiose recitations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Movie Review: ‘Summer in February,’ an Edwardian Romance 2014-01-16T23:32:39Z It is all the better if you don’t think of it in more grandiose terms. Art Review: ?Swept Away,? at Museum of Arts and Design 2012-04-05T21:43:03Z Finally, after 30 years, I had a name for those intoxicating and grandiose periods of my life when I felt so powerful and so high that I was practically vibrating. Intoxicating highs and deep darkness: living and loving with bipolar disorder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The movie’s lack of imaginative freedom reduces personal identity to pictorial identity; the grandiose and maudlin melodrama to which the movie rises feels as manipulative as did the dénouement of “Infinity War.” Review: What “Avengers: Endgame” Could Have Been 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z After all, who was the character of Jay Gatsby himself if not a spinner of grandiose tales and a peddler of lavish dreams? Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2013-05-08T20:12:26Z This is just great TV, simultaneously grandiose and human-scaled -- a "Survivor " specialty. "Survivor" redeems itself 2011-03-17T13:18:00Z Trump’s behavior since the election has been grandiose and narcissistic, with quick, surprising moments of apparent sanity or reasonableness that are swiftly overtaken by rampaging id. Trump and Celebrity Approval: You Can’t Always Get What You Want 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z The plans, it is true, were on the grandiose side: The village wanted to host the Olympics. Review: New Museum Triennial Casts a Wary Eye on the Future 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Cage was interested in recasting the sounds of the past — scratchy records, stereotypically grandiose classical music — in a radically new context. Music Review: The Knights Echo John Cage’s Happenings at the Stone 2012-06-05T21:28:02Z And Noah’s fantasies, which at first seem merely sweet, soon grow ridiculous and grandiose. Review: ‘Caroline, or Change’ Makes History’s Heartbreak Sing 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z To call the fighting that ensues a civil war seems a bit grandiose, though. Review: In ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ Super-Bro Against Super-Bro 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Talentless chutzpah usually wears thin once viewers see that it's really grandiose self-delusion, but all Rylan's spray tan and Lady Gaga-esque camp failed to conceal an intelligence and grace, which took everyone by surprise. Rylan Clark on The X Factor, death threats and being seen as a fame-hungry diva 2012-12-16T20:00:00Z Indeed, Mr. Baker himself is currently restoring the historic Trident Villas and its nearby Castle, a grandiose private chateau once favored by celebrities like Johnny Depp. Journeys: In Jamaica, a Mento Music Revival 2011-11-11T20:00:10Z Rufus resembles a villain out of fantasy or science fiction — a nearly superhuman avatar of evil with grandiose ambitions and a grudge against the universe. ‘The Harder They Fall’ Review: A New Look for the Old West 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Anthony could seem like the ideal New York striver-hero, more grandiose in ambition than in personality; tenacious, full-throated, romantic in his sound and in his service to music. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z This grandiose style, popular in the United States from about 1880 to 1930, emulated classic Greek and Roman architecture and was usually used for public buildings, such as libraries. Take an architectural walking tour of Norfolk 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z The letter was grandiose and insecure, highly specific but provided no checkable details. The weird moment on Colbert’s show that captured our political whiplash 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Beyond espionage, any public figure who combines grandiose ambition, perceived malign purpose and memorable idiosyncrasy will eventually be likened to a "Bond villain". James Bond – a ticket to distant joys 2012-09-28T21:55:09Z His memoir, titled “Will,” is a grandiose and gripping self-mythology of surmounting fear through recklessness. Perspective | Little Liddys everywhere: The legacy of a political ‘super-klutz’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z One month later, the only thing that’s come true from that grandiose intro is the part about stumbling. Utopia: Fox's Big-Budget Reality TV Disaster 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z "All great people are flawed, all of us," Brand announced last weekend, in a manner that can only be described as grandiose, one of his favourite words. Russell Brand: messiah or very naughty boy? 2013-06-15T23:05:40Z I had these mad grandiose schemes of making comics that were art. Neil Gaiman: 'I don't think I'm mainstream. I'm lots of different cults' 2013-07-26T15:00:00Z Could it be that Europe's abandonment of formal empire failed to provoke a cathartic revision of grandiose old notions of national and racial superiority? The ruins of empire: Asia's emergence from western imperialism 2012-07-27T07:00:04Z By the end of the grandiose piece, the wooden floor of the loft is vibrating, Notre Dame's arched ceiling echoes with the sound and below, flashbulbs flare upwards. Notre Dame's new pipe organ bears history's weight 2013-05-04T06:21:10Z But more often the humor comes simply from the incongruity of a grandiose thought in a less-than-grand setting, which to my mind amounts to a pretty good take on the history of Western philosophy. 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z The action shifts to Moscow and assorted gruesome and grandiose interiors in which Khrushchev and the rest take turns organizing the funeral and their own uncertain futures. Review: The Slapstick Horror of ‘The Death of Stalin’ 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Such grandiose claims have faded with time as we come to understand how little we really know about how – and if – Prozac works. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z Dr. Meyers noted that life as a celebrity often creates narcissists, “drawn to Twitter” because they “need constant feedback from others to keep up their grandiose image of themselves.” Noted: Celebrities Are Leaving Twitter 2012-07-18T19:24:09Z The reality is a bit less grandiose than the name. Carnegie Hall to Establish National Youth Orchestra in 2013 2012-01-11T21:00:13Z If it all sounds a bit grandiose to us now, it did, too, to Graham Greene, the English author of the 1955 spy novel “The Quiet American.” When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z But the film can also be tedious and inadvertently comic, as when Mr. Capaldi munches on grapes while delivering his grandiose oratory. Peter Capaldi Narrates ‘Inside the Mind of Leonardo in 3D’ 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z An outstanding, grandiose load of rubbish” He made his debut on the Light Programme, now Radio 2 and, in 1969, was asked to stand in for Jimmy Young on the mid-morning show. Obituary: Sir Terry Wogan 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z An original score by the electronic artist Blanck Mass, anachronistically interwoven with classical numbers by Vivaldi, certainly helps, creating a mood of grandiose delirium. ‘Ted K’ Review: An Eerie Descent 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z In 2003 a grandiose competition was launched, with architects of international renown, to build a commercial development between Pelham Crescent and the sea. The tragic battle for Hastings 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z Mount Airy now features a grandiose interior, five restaurants, that golf course, and a spa and fitness center. In Transit: Mount Airy Lives On, But in Name Only 2010-10-18T20:00:00Z Paul Georges’s often outsize, unabashedly grandiose landscapes, nudes, self-portraits and allegorical narratives have a terrifically sensuous, painterly flair. Art Review: ‘See It Loud,’ at the National Academy Museum 2013-12-26T22:02:57Z Ultimately, though, the prose doesn't matter too much as the story moves quickly from showdown to showdown, each one more violent and grandiose than the last. Revenge and corruption plays a part in Jo Nesbo's thriller 'The Son' 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z If you’re looking for the opposite of the grandiose, flashy electronic dance festivals, Red Wing might be your event. 5 July Music Festivals To Check Out 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Yet when Lang Lang played it as an encore at a Seattle Symphony concert a few years ago, he inflated it into a sort of grandiose public oration. Review: Hersh recital opens Olympic Music Festival season 2010-07-04T18:03:00Z For all that, the movie’s approach is gratuitously grandiose. Review: ‘SHOT!,’ About the Man Who Captured Rock’s Famous Faces 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z When Act 2 begins, Jeremy Jacob’s cartoonishly grandiose set — four columns and a fake chandelier framing the stage — has shrunken to dollhouse size. Review: Dancing Their Friends and Heroes (and My Little Pony) 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Frustratingly, the documentary declines to probe Demers’s evolving relationship to his activism and newfound fame — particularly once he assumes a grandiose Twitter persona and scores repeat appearances on Joe Rogan’s podcast. ‘The Walrus and the Whistleblower’ Review: The Fight to Free a Friend 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The symbol has overtaken grandiose modifiers like “premium,” “max” or “deluxe” for services and goods, while also supplanting the ampersand in many corporate names and logos. Many Pluses, Zero Minuses, Some Division 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z As a shy 10-year-old, I would practise his grandiose speeches and even more grandiose gestures from Moonstruck in front of the mirror: “I ain’t no freaking monument to justice!” Nicolas Cage: ‘If I don’t have a job to do, I can be very self-destructive’ 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z On it, the frontman Luke Temple’s existential angst sounded freshly grandiose. Pop & Rock Music Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T00:54:30Z Rather we get clusters of Marxist jargon and sweeping grandiose generalities. Dictator-lit: Kim Jong-il's political philosophy 2010-12-07T10:57:00Z On that album, the frontman Luke Temple’s existential angst sounded freshly grandiose; now he samples from his more minimalist recent solo album, “Good Mood Fool.” Pop & Rock Listings for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:11:42Z For many critics of “The Tree of Life,” their presence is an emblem of the film’s cardinal sin of grandiose self-indulgence. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z If the Tasmanian tiger is a ready-made symbol that invites all sorts of grandiose interpretation, “The Hunter” admirably refrains from pushing its implications to the forefront. Movie Review: ?The Hunter,? an Australian Odyssey With Willem Dafoe 2012-04-05T22:10:03Z Nearby, a photograph casts Mntambo as a toreador — a classic Pablo Picasso role enacting grandiose masculinity. Identity transformed in the Fowler's 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Something else is going on here, something quasi-spiritual and fully grandiose. The Playlist: Katy Perry’s Limp Olympics Anthem and Justice’s Grooving Return 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z His ideas are grandiose, but if you look at the history of Kanye, he would tweet an idea and it would happen. Kanye West floods Twitter with "train of thoughts" 2012-01-05T23:49:55Z The expansive scale and brisk but unhurried editing keep “For Greater Glory” from stumbling over itself and becoming a bloated, grandiose exhibition of righteous saber rattling. Movie Review: ‘For Greater Glory’ Traces Mexico’s Cristero War 2012-05-31T22:13:04Z He continues to tour in support of his grandiose double album, “The 20/20 Experience,” the second half of which was released last fall. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z He remains on tour in support of his grandiose double album, “The 20/20 Experience,” the second half of which was released last fall. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z But in Luger’s hands, the sound has become even more grandiose, almost operatic. Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This 2011-11-04T17:42:52Z “Thank you for letting me attend this historic occasion,” Buckley told the crowd, neatly finding the seam between the grandiose and the comic. The peanut butter that made William F. Buckley Jr. swoon 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Ms. Lee’s enjoyably fanciful script nicely meshes the grandiose and the mundane, but it’s messier than it ought to be. ‘War Lesbian’ Gives Ellen DeGeneres a Demonic Twist 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z Even the biggest fans of the Sorkin genre of delivering grandiose ideas in gunfight fast dialogue and public-lectures-as-corridor-chit-chat will find The Newsroom difficult to parse and disappointing to watch. The Newsroom: are news anchors really this important? 2012-06-23T23:04:22Z I don’t make such a grandiose claim lightly, though making grandiose claims lightly is as common on the internet as posting pictures of your face. Julia Louis-Dreyfus, greatest of all time: The “Seinfeld” and “Veep” star is the best TV comedy actor, hands down 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z It lets them be obnoxious, irritating, grandiose, unsympathetic. ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’ Season Finale: Two Seconds 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Even when not in character, the duo tend to describe what they do in grandiose terms. Empire of the Sun: Ice on the Dune – review 2013-06-20T14:29:01Z Enough about their harsh realities feels genuine enough for such grandiose fantasies to come off as a necessary indulgence. "Pose" kicks off its final fabulous walk by ratcheting up the nonsense as well as its optimism 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The nearly three-hour show was laden with familiar extravagances: grandiose guitar solos, the band’s aggressively priapic stage presence, Mr. Rose’s multiple costume changes and pliant snake dance. Music Review: Guns N? Roses, on Stage in Unchanging Fashion 2012-02-11T16:01:45Z Her many admirers and collaborators offer praise, generally in vague, grandiose terms. ‘Olympia’ Review: When the Moon Hits a Documentarian’s Eye 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z White Lies are a band from London whose three albums of dark and grandiose Joy Division-influenced synth-rock have all reached the top five in the UK. White Lies star writes theatre score 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Niru goes on: “Symptoms may vary but are exceptionally pronounced upon return to native soil and include hyperactivity, elevated mood, grandiose thinking and increased aggression.” A Young Man of Strict Nigerian-American Parents Comes of Age While Coming Out 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z “If you look at church design and iconography, the pope’s chair is incredibly important, and it’s usually a pretty grandiose thing,” says Moser, whose designs have a Shaker-like look. These are the one-of-a-kind chairs constructed for Pope Francis’s U.S. visit 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z That may seem like a grandiose comparison, but it’s apt. Perspective | Now the world can read Mary Trump’s blistering book about her uncle. Holding it back would have been pure censorship. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The grandiose expectations placed on actual children have grown wildly out of proportion with the economic reality into which they’ve been born. Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Yet the film dwells on grandiose spectacle far less than it might have done, or perhaps than its limited budget would have allowed. What's The King's Speech's secret weapon of mass adulation? 2011-02-22T16:45:41Z “If you don’t mind me saying so, Lorenzo has a tendency to get a little grandiose and I’m always the one saying, ‘Honey, you need to have more realistic expectations from the world.’ ” | Up Close: New York Fashion Week: Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez, Fashion Bloggers 2012-09-05T21:37:53Z It used to be called katebeaton.com, and then I wanted to remove my name from it, because it seemed a bit grandiose. Kate Beaton: How to Make It as a Cartoonist 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Tut is all about the tomb, the afterlife and desperate immortality — a fantastically grandiose and convoluted system that would help define Western civilization for the next several thousand years. How good is the King Tut exhibition? An art critic weighs in 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z It’s a grandiose, compelling, ridiculous, and moving show—a typical U2 production, in other words. U2: Bring Back the Irony 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z While the novel is grandiose in its chronological scope, "Pachinko" as a show starkly differs in that it travels back and forth in time and place. "Pachinko" told me what my grandparents couldn't 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Human foibles — not grandiose, Machiavellian plans — are what drive Allison and trap her: She wants to rise, she wants to buy clothing in Milan, she wants above all to avoid going to jail. ‘Homeland’ Recap: Season 5, Episode 8, ‘All About Allison’ 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z He vacillates between grandiose justifications for his dishonesties and mea culpa self-flagellation: “Nothing like the silken whip of self-reproach to soothe a smarting conscience,” he observes. ‘The Blue Guitar’ review: An artist’s heartbreaking crisis 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Scott Davis’s set on a thrust stage, beautifully lighted by Joel Shier, is a spare wooden structure, a modest counterpart to the brothers’ grandiose plans. ‘Road Show’: A journey into the ‘get-rich-quick’ 20th century 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z There was no word on whether Baron Cohen will try to imitate Mercury's grandiose singing style, but the comedian has appeared in several musicals, including Tim Burton's film version of "Sweeney Todd." Sacha Baron Cohen set for Freddie Mercury biopic 2010-09-17T17:12:00Z After disasters like Hurricane Katrina, the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Sandy, architects quickly responded with evocative ideas, transformative visions and alluring — if sometimes grandiose — solutions. Building Public Places for a Covid World 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z "The whole thing has become an outstanding, grandiose load of rubbish." Obituary: Sir Terry Wogan 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z After reading an article dismissing Andrew’s ridiculous theories, Margaret suddenly realizes how others see her husband’s blustering, grandiose claims; his circular reasoning; his obnoxious and deluded certainty. Books of The Times: In Jane Smiley?s ?Private Life,? a Marriage With No Sparks 2010-05-24T21:21:00Z The film breaks for an intermission and grandiose entr'acte music. The Agony and the Ecstasy: more passion would've been less painful 2013-05-24T08:57:47Z These pieces’ connection to their ancestors — Debussy’s own set of études, their movement perpetual, whether fast or slow; the grandiose drama of Liszt; the complex rhythmic games of Conlon Nancarrow — are ever more obvious. Review: Taka Kigawa Masters the Conflicting Rhythms of Ligeti 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z It sounds like a grandiose statement, but there are watches that have assisted in changing history. Special Report: Watches: Hodinkee, Watch Cheerleader 2014-03-27T12:01:18Z Even the word "modest" is too grandiose to describe LACMA's tiny acquisition endowments. LACMA landed Kirchner's 'Dancer With Necklace' through skill, happenstance 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z This young company’s name may be winkingly grandiose, but it also indicates a genuine seriousness of purpose. Theater Review: ‘The Golden Veil’ by Normandy Raven Sherwood at the Kitchen 2012-06-08T21:08:40Z Mr. Chávez, who receives the most screen time, offers a grandiose historical worldview. | 'South of the Border': Oliver Stone, Tour Guide 2010-06-24T23:25:00Z The tapes of the title seem to fulfill some universal contractual obligation to feature found footage in horror movies, but the ending at least is gratifyingly grandiose. Review: In ‘The Vatican Tapes,’ the Sinister Stare of Possession 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The renovation returned real gold leaf and alabaster to the 18th century theatre's grandiose interior. Russia's shiny new Bolshoi grappling with gripes 2012-02-01T15:46:09Z The film’s unexpected win capped off an evening that favored the restrained over the grandiose. Oscars’ biggest upset: Why Stallone’s surprising loss was the shock the Academy needed 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z From Thursday through Feb. 7 with the New York Philharmonic, Mr. Gerstein plays a new critical edition, more delicate and less grandiose. Listen to Tchaikovsky, Stripped Down to His Intentions 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z I don’t mean this in any grandiose or melodramatic way. Movie Review: Katherine Heigl in Film Based on Janet Evanovich Novel 2012-01-27T23:23:10Z Mr. Ruess has a knack for writing grandiose pop tunes with complex structures, soaring hooks and pensive verses. A Band Called Fun., With a Period 2012-03-10T00:25:53Z At its best, Briggs's own arrangement of the Third Orchestral Suite sounded suitably grand; at its worst, grandiose. Proms 38 & 39: Bach Day 2010-08-15T12:09:00Z Its sound, however, was less grandiose than that of better-known prog-rock bands like Yes or Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Daevid Allen, Guitarist and Leader of Gong and Soft Machine, Dies at 77 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z His aptitude for publicity and the grandiose gesture was on early display on the opening night of the Warhol show. A Collector of People Along With Art 2011-04-06T23:34:47Z That might be an inflated way of putting it, but failures are nothing if not grandiose. Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z If he was grandiose, he meant it as a joke: in Grand Pianola Music, two overworked pianos try their hardest to sound like automated machines. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z They were commemorated in stone, both modest and grandiose. The stunning rise of cremation reveals America’s changing idea of death 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z In Ron Raines’s devastating performance of “The Road You Didn’t Take,” the personal tragedy of Ben, a stuffy, grandiose shell of a man, steadily leaks through his shallow pomposity. New Music: New Music: Javier Colon and Taylor Ho Bynum - Reviews 2011-11-28T23:08:05Z Proportionately it seems less grandiose than the original, but it remains a towering, double-fistful of deliciousness. You won't leave Bellevue's Lunchbox Laboratory hungry 2012-04-12T20:15:10Z Banner said she was now looking forward to working within the Duveen galleries' "extraordinary grandiose space". 2010-01-20T11:53:00Z They were allergic to anything grandiose: When clients wanted large houses, the partners tended to divide them into smaller volumes, effectively disguising them as compounds. Harry Bates, Modernist Architect of Long Island Homes, Dies at 95 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Bono and the boys have put themselves in an unusual position, one that goes beyond their riches or grandiose tours with enormous pieces of hardware. Back off U2: Criticizing the band for not playing Paris immediately after the terror attacks is absurd 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s hated for lack of plot, a grandiose and oversynthesized Andrew Lloyd Webber score, zombie wigs and more belly stripes than you’ll ever find in nature. Review | Love it or hate it, ‘Cats’ the musical has way more than nine lives 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z In 1926 she joined the Hollywood Music Box Revue, “patterned after the Follies, only not so grandiose,” she told Interview magazine in 1999. Doris Eaton Travis, Last of the Ziegfeld Girls, Dies at 106 2010-05-12T06:05:00Z The second part of a bold but enjoyably nebulous concept piece, House of Gold and Bones Part 2 is a more menacing and aggressive beast than last year's grandiose Part 1. Stone Sour: House of Gold and Bones Part 2 – review 2013-04-04T22:00:01Z The Pulitzer, which honoured the ageing William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway for the grandiose and simplistic follies of their maturity, has assumed the character of a national institution. Paul Bailey: I prefer humble prizes 2012-07-13T21:55:14Z Self-aggrandizing and self-loathing, grandiose and goofy, leaping from stomping drums to cellos to sampled soul to dance-club electronics, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” is a wildly multifarious inventory of Mr. West’s fixations. The Year in Culture: 2010 Anthems: From a Kiss-Off to Jolts of Hope 2010-12-16T19:28:05Z Today, the walking memoir — in which the main character chronicles his amblings, making mundane observations and grandiose discoveries along the way — is a significant subgenre, with Kazin’s book as its keystone work. Alfred Kazin’s “A Walker in the City” charts an intellectual awakening, block by block 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z The highway’s lonely two lanes originate in the rather cheekily named town of Weed — this is, after all, northern California — and meanders the base of grandiose Mount Shasta, as if not wanting to disturb it. In Oregon’s lone National Park, hike the country’s deepest, bluest lake 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In Jobs' typically grandiose manner, he promises that "the planet's going to shift on its axis nigh and forever" once he unveils his latest wonder. 'Steve Jobs' trailer: Michael Fassbender takes on a tech iCon 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The painters of the Hudson River School were grandiose, romantic, dramatic and brilliantly colorful. Review | How Thomas Cole and the Hudson River School artists helped define a nation 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z He remains on tour in support of his grandiose double album, “The 20/20 Experience,” the second half of which was released in September. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:22:48Z You can quibble about a lot of detail – and his grandiose plans for global supervision of finance and global strategies for growth. Gordon Brown and Ann Widdecombe ? two possible paths for politicians post-power 2010-12-06T12:25:00Z The grandiose name reflected the group’s aspirations to greater influence as a ministry, a vision that would only begin to be realized as the group shifted away from its charismatic beginnings toward reformed evangelicalism. Evangelical church accused of ignoring sexual abuse, “pedophilia ring” 2013-03-12T16:17:00Z The gallery’s grandiose, marble-pillared Corinthian facade is that of a former bank, an appropriate front for a dealer with imperial ambitions. Scene/Seen: Rome Makes Room for Contemporary Art 2011-04-01T12:00:31Z Those tribulations are as much of a reward as the flowering of his grandiose projects, he said. Artist Christo Faces Opposition to Colorado Project 2013-10-18T18:40:33Z These stylings evoke a gentle sense of collective memory that compensates for the film’s more grandiose moments, including Strassera’s overwrought final address. ‘Argentina, 1985’ Review: All the Prosecutor’s Men 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z "And those folks are telling Trump, regularly and in grandiose terms, that he is in fact the Chosen One and has been anointed by God to be the president at this point in time." "The Righteous Gemstones" is an incomplete portrait of evangelical hypocrisy for the age of Trump 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z "I have never attempted anything this complex or grandiose," he says. New band of the day: Kiran Leonard (No 1,520) 2013-05-28T16:55:00Z If what he says is helpful in deciphering the film's aesthetics, it also sounds grandiose. Stunning visuals, wandering plot in cerebral road movie 'Here' 2012-06-21T20:24:04Z Its lush internal winter garden shares a grandiose covered courtyard with Café Glyptoteket, famed for its pastries. Five Reasons to Visit Copenhagen 2010-12-30T08:15:00Z Other observers were even more grandiose in their description of the river landing turned citadel: “The Gibraltar of the West,” they called it. ‘Vicksburg’ Review: The Falling Tide of Gray 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z As it is, like the grandiose new City of Culture of Galicia complex in Santiago de Compostela, it looks like a late work of bubble baroque. J?rgen Mayer H 2011-03-27T00:04:06Z The exhibition starts in a grandiose, upbeat key, with reproductions of designs created in the 1960s by a group of young Japanese architects known as the Metabolists. Art Review: ‘Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde’ at MoMA 2012-11-15T22:48:46Z But in a more compressed work like “dark dreams,” the very loud and very soft passages tended to feel unearned, grandiose rather than grand. Music Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s ‘dark dreams,’ at Berlin Philharmonic 2014-02-23T18:48:18Z Though it is full of surprising subtleties, it represents Berlioz at his most grandiose, a formidable notion in itself: both untidy and glorious. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z One refreshing trend is unlikely heroines – young women who are not really looking for fame or grandiose accomplishments but simply trying to survive. How female protagonists have changed – and stayed the same – in young adult fiction 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z He spoke further about the making of “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” the circumstances that led up to it and whether audiences still want to see his grandiose take on these enduring characters. Zack Snyder’s Rough and Tumble Ride With ‘Justice League’ 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z Martin Bernheimer, in The Los Angeles Times, wrote that Shapero revealed himself a “superb craftsman,” an “artist totally in control of the grandiose variables at hand.” A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z I’d swiped it from my father’s bookshelf because it had looked appropriately grandiose. Will Sheff: The First Time an Adult Took Me Seriously 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z His issues are largely of his own grandiose design but also fairly picayune. Review: In ‘The D Train,’ Jack Black and James Marsden in a Steamy Bromance 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Anthony, Courtesy of Freya Zaheer New Rochelle is a leafy New York suburb with a grandiose high school building, 30 minutes by train from Grand Central. My brother’s life, unraveled 2013-03-12T11:45:00Z Her performance is wonderfully proportioned, though, never grandiose nor unnecessarily rhetorical, with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra supplying perfectly scaled support. Brahms: Violin Concerto; String Sextet Op 36 ? review 2011-02-24T21:49:01Z As a commodity, as a show, as a commentary, as a mirror, Hirst's art is a grandiose epic of these times. Why I've joined Damien Hirst's bad taste party 2010-09-28T14:07:00Z It was lunacy born of the times, incubated in a world of secret Russian meetings, fudged inauguration sizes, and grandiose statements from a commander in chief whose greatest pastime and hobby was self-mythologizing. Did a 9-year-old called ‘Pickle’ really write that letter to Trump? Yep, he’s real. 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z He talks in English sentences, he's oriented in time and place, he harbors no grandiose delusions. "It's Kind of a Funny Story": Zach Galifianakis' dramatic breakthrough 2010-10-09T14:20:00Z He had always been capable of grandiose snark, and a rarely displayed mean streak. 'The clock of his life was counting down' – loving and losing my ex 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Verdi, writing in his best operatic style but without benefit of stage trappings, conjures a terrifying sonic image of the Day of Judgment in this grandiose setting of the Mass for the dead. Review: Verdi’s Requiem, in All Its Theatricality and Resonance 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Edwards comes to admire Thackery, even though he is a fierce and rather charmless mentor, grandiose about medicine and his own efforts to improve it, and dismissive of just about everything and everyone else. 'The Knick,' a Cinemax Medical Drama Set in 1900 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Rincón dabbles in the poetic, mixing the mortals’ sometimes self-help-sounding domestic discourse with grandiose statements of love everlasting from the divine duo, who are prone to endless arguments. Review: Star-Crossed Lovers in Need of a Divine Assist 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Both are sumptuous, grandiose and profoundly silly spectacles, liable to inspire over-the-top flames from some viewers and impassioned defenses from others. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z "My talents are melodramatic and a mite grandiose," he wrote with considerable self-insight to his editor, "and this goes down better with historical sauce." David Stacton: the method man 2013-01-26T10:00:01Z Part of the ideology is they'd rather have some collateral damage than the grandiose end of society that would happen if gays get their rights. Cancel Gay Pride until we have marriage equality! 2010-06-25T15:19:00Z Still, this is the ballet’s most diffuse, strenuous, and repetitious section, with a few awkwardly grandiose strokes. Review: Miami City Ballet in ‘Heatscape,’ a Fleeting Chase of Romance 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z She bought and embellished the chateau on a grandiose scale in the 1760s. Labor of love French chateau on market for $30 million 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z “It’s funny to take something which should be awe inspiring and serious and grandiose, and doodling bums in the corner of it,” Brooker said. Philomena Cunk Is Weird Enough to Take on the World 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z Later the palace belonged to another family as the Medici made themselves Grand Dukes of Tuscany and inhabited more grandiose Florentine buildings. Does great art make you ill? 2010-08-02T15:16:00Z The two-hour service at Washington National Cathedral was as close to a party as you could have in such grandiose surroundings. Washington’s media and political elite pay tribute to the late Jim Vance 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z What’s worse, julienning these disparate plots saps them of their natural drama, and no amount of grandiose narration can pump that tension back in. Review | Anthony Doerr’s ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’ is a convoluted love letter to books 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z Biographers melt in his presence: City University of New York professor Marc Dolan's new book bears the grandiose title Bruce Springsteen and the Promise of Rock'n'Roll. Why does Bruce Springsteen make middle-aged men behave like teenagers at their first pop show? 2012-06-21T09:34:56Z I had neither my partner’s apathy nor other classmates’ grandiose imaginations of monuments. West Point on Memorial Day: Race, one graduation photo, and the meaning of America 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z However, in contrast to Pennebaker’s earlier nimble hit-and-run style, this was a consciously grandiose effort. DA Pennebaker obituary 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z High-resolution transparencies mounted on lightboxes, they are funny and touching partly because of the disproportionate relationship between their grandiose scale and their cartoonish images, which resemble those of downbeat Father’s Day greeting cards. Art in Review: Rodney Graham 2013-05-16T20:35:11Z The grand backdrop sets the stage for even more grandiose props like horses, dromedaries, and even lions, depending on the opera. In Transit: Opera and Ballet, With Roman Ruins as Striking Backdrop 2011-06-02T10:00:39Z Nureyev’s aim was to set a simple, unembellished performance style against a grandiose world, conveyed in the lavish decor. Review | National Ballet of Canada gets it right: In ‘The Sleeping Beauty,’ it’s what’s inside that counts 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z The "Hallelujah" Chorus, for instance, began not as the usual grandiose declaration, but instead rather quietly — the better to build the drama into a gradual crescendo of considerable impact. Handel's 'Messiah' gets zippy, memorable treatment 2011-12-18T02:26:03Z In the pre-Gelb era the grandiose literalism of Franco Zeffirelli was the house style at the Met, at least for the core of the repertory. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z It's a grand claim and this is at times a grandiose book. Jerusalem, Jerusalem by James Carroll ? review 2011-08-05T21:54:01Z If Arnold was under any grandiose illusions that he was a white knight for American democracy, it helped that he was getting calls from serious journalists. Whatever became of the anti-Trump prophets? 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z The grandiose promise fit well with the other jokes made about the show’s success and failure in the season finale, dubbed ”Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television.” With The End Of Its Sixth Season, 'Community' Teases Viewers About That Movie 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The presenter still regularly appears on BBC airwaves, delivering erudite and grandiose soccer reports for which he is well-known to sports fans. BBC presenter charged with indecent assaults 2012-12-05T20:18:52Z The country’s first blockbuster set in space, “The Wandering Earth,” opens Tuesday amid grandiose expectations that it will represent the dawning of a new era in Chinese filmmaking. China’s Film Industry Finally Joins the Space Race 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Collins said of her group, “I see it as incredible content potential and, though this sounds a little grandiose, possibly culture shifting. These women are powerful, and they have made me feel more powerful.” A Chat Room of Their Own 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z On a glittery white set by Walt Spangler designed to evoke a grandiose pulpit, the show opens with McPherson facing the toughest of her literal trials. Theater Review: ‘Scandalous: The Life and Trials of Aimee Semple McPherson’ 2012-11-16T03:00:13Z At its launch, it was heralded by its makers as the most complex wristwatch ever made, and a grandiose work of art. Still ticking: The improbable survival of the luxury watch business | Simon Garfield 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The set, by Klara Zieglerova, mixes the grandiose and the rustic in pointedly tacky Euro style, and is pocked by doors all over the place, even on the grass expanse of the courtyard. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z I don’t want to get all grandiose and call it a new Harlem Renaissance, but it’s that kind of energy. Creating “Luke Cage,” the First Woke Black-Superhero Show 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Yet its size is grandiose and its security measures elaborate, for obvious reasons, which make it expensive in a location that is not New York's hottest commercial spot. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z This is a mean teen hero, obnoxious and grandiose, but oddly endearing, too. First sight: Craig Roberts 2011-01-06T23:03:00Z “Big, even in today’s world, but not grandiose.” Home & Design: History helps breathe life into a Georgian manor in Virginia I decide that when it's my turn to write about the Cocteau Twins' music, I'll say that if you have a broken heart it makes you feel even sadder but at least a bit grandiose. Cocteau Twins: 'It's music to bonk to' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-07-31T17:01:42Z She has a grandiose plan to become the PowerPoint Pied Piper in Prada ankle boots reigniting the women's revolution — Betty Friedan for the digital age. Is Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg really the new face of feminism? 2013-03-17T00:05:51Z Franco Zeffirelli does threadbare in lavish style in his grandiose staging of “La Bohème,” which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Friday evening. Music Review: ?La Boh?me? at the Met: Life in Zeffirelli Style - Review 2011-11-20T22:51:46Z It’s all suitably grandiose, but Mr. Remender grounds the story by giving equal importance to the relationships between the characters. ArtsBeat: Graphic Books Best Sellers: Wolverine Leads X-Force on a Mission 2012-03-23T20:35:18Z At a time of grandiose mythologizing, he marshals his considerable storytelling skills to demythologize himself. In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z A brilliant talker and aphorist, a fast-walking, fast-talking fount of gossip and insights, cutting wit and grandiose dreams, wild impulses and crazy projects, incisive observations and boundless audacity, Brooke seems like an ingenious invention herself. “Mistress America” and the Art of Making a Living as an Artist 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z To contemplate the grandiose chiselled memorials to shipwrights, merchants and manufacturers in the Eastern Necropolis at Dundee is almost to breathe the air of the prosperous Victorian days of the great jute city. Cemeteries: Far from the madding crowd 2010-12-30T00:05:09Z Berger thinks the design is too slick, the vision not grand but grandiose. The push to see Seattle waterfront transformed 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Obviously nervous, she seems inhibited at the beginning before some of those trademark wordless ad-libs soar over the grandiose string arrangement and the whole thing takes off. Björk's best TV moments 2013-07-26T11:10:12Z He refers to his family as an “arcadian experiment,” but what, precisely, Guterl’s parents hoped to achieve in shaping their family as a “grandiose, racial mélange” is not totally clear. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z This was the work of someone quirky, narcissistic and grandiose. A stranger e-mailed saying he planned to kill himself. What was I supposed to do? 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Casting Ms. Chase as both instrumentalist and performance artist, “Density 2036: Part II” is theatrical, moody, exhilarating, sometimes repetitive, sometimes lulling and often grandiose, even to the point of camp. Claire Chase Performs Part II of ‘Density 2036’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Byron took a grandiose villa with his doctor and servants, while Shelley, Mary and Claire settled into a more humble house by the lakefront. Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z On the following day Winston Churchill, recently returned to Downing Street as prime minister, spoke on the BBC to an audience at home and throughout the world, ending with a grandiose flourish. Dark Truths About Britain’s Imperial Past 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The Russian Army theater is housed in a grandiose Stalin-era building in the shape of a star. Alexander Burdonsky, Russian Director and Stalin’s Grandson, Dies at 75 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Washington, contemporary jazz’s reigning mainstream sensation, is touring in support of “Heaven and Earth,” his magisterial follow-up to “The Epic,” the equally grandiose 2015 album that turned this Los Angeles tenor saxophonist into a star. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Yet it’s a tragedy devoid of the greed, courage, sacrifice, betrayal or violence whose glamour mitigates calamity in more grandiose narratives. A little rain must fall: the tragic secret of a musical movie masterpiece 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z None of the guests, who include Sam and Clementine’s two young daughters, know much about their grandiose host. Review: In Liane Moriarty’s ‘Truly Madly Guilty,’ a Very Unfortunate Barbecue Indeed 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z The exhibition features Piranesi's etchings depicting ruins of ancient Roman buildings alongside sketches and models of grandiose Soviet-era buildings modeled on the classical examples. Piranesi exhibition opens in Moscow 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z This was a galaxy-spanning utopia whose name was chosen for its self-deprecating modesty, rather than something grandiose like the Federation or the Empire. Iain Banks: 'A star whose light will travel a long way' 2013-06-10T16:56:34Z The only big-ticket item we had yet to see was bighorn sheep, which only live in the North Unit, about an hour’s drive north, where the people are even fewer and the scenery more grandiose. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The Smith Center, a temple of visual and performing arts, is easily the most grandiose of Las Vegas' new cultural institutions. Arts community demanding spotlight in Las Vegas 2012-02-26T17:02:08Z Longborough now has a proper artistic pedigree to go with its grandiose pretensions. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z Everyone assumed at the beginning that the grandiose concept would be accomplished with computer graphics and miniatures. What’s bigger than an event film? ‘Tenet’ might just be 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The Detroit techno luminary Carl Craig led a group that included four fellow synthesizer artists and a concert pianist, all playing together, and just about everything they did was grandiose. An Afrofuturism Festival Brings an Energy Shift to Carnegie Hall 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z Bay directed three videos for Meat Loaf, all of which somehow fit both of their styles and personalities to a T. They are ridiculous, grandiose, and everything we want from the two. Michael Bay Got His Start Directing Music Videos for Meat Loaf 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Early Hollywood was an anarchic world, with upstart production companies launching grandiose projects on every side. Animal penises’ amazing evolution 2012-06-12T15:40:00Z They also “savor celebrations,” she said, going on “babymoons” while pregnant and holding “gender-reveal parties” at which the unborn child’s gender is disclosed, in grandiose fashion. Children’s Clothing Inspires Lines for Adults 2012-12-19T22:49:39Z While “American Hustle” and “The Wolf of Wall Street” have the kind of grandiose titles, A-list actors and based-on-a-true-story subject matter associated with prestige dramas, they are, at their best, flamboyantly savage comedies. ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z Scott called the film “a pocket opera of grandiose self-pity, a wild and uncompromising demand for attention, a cri de coeur from the selfie generation.” For Mother’s Day, Movies All About ‘Mother’ 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z “Kind of over the top, grandiose, but never campy. She believes in that over-the-topness.” In This Ballet, a Sweetly Disturbing Confection From Alexei Ratmansky 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The idea that an artist should have his own “touch” struck him as grandiose and laughable. Magritte, Surrealism and the Pipe That Is Not a Pipe 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z The Balenciaga show reveals historic textiles and costumes, which Mr. Saillard calls “grandiose, simple, ethnic, folklore and liturgical,” all collected by the couturier and bequeathed to the museum in 1979 by his family. Are Les Docks the Next Cool Thing? 2012-06-04T11:30:24Z This album sums up the best of her: fun to dance to, laughably grandiose, self-revelatory but on her terms. Like a Prayer by Madonna 2011-08-23T15:22:20Z His voice has lost most of its melody after three decades of nicotine and grandiose yelling, but it still works; even his apologies sound like commands. Music Review: Philip H. Anselmo & the Illegals Have a Story to Perform 2013-08-18T22:06:45Z Intentionally composed by Jagger and Keith Richards as a grandiose rejoinder to the Beatles’ “Hey Jude,” “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” took on a life of its own in the studio. The Rolling Stones' "Let It Bleed" at 50: An even darker "Gimme Shelter" emerges 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Among Newport's grandiose "cottages," Belcourt Castle's eccentricities stand out against its neighbors' more austere origins. Great American Castles 2010-12-10T17:45:00Z And sometimes these songs become facile and grandiose: A good portion of the song “Quetzalcoatl” rests on ascending-and-descending, contrary-motion harmonies almost identical to those from the end of the Beatles’ “I Am the Walrus.” Review: ‘The Ark Work’ Is Liturgy’s Third Album 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z As grandiose movie memorabilia, though, the bronze sculpture's conceptual resonance is on the order of a colossal baby's shoe. Matthew Barney's 'River of Fundament'? Well, it's certainly big 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z A dense mist arises from the Snoqualmie Falls and blankets the grandiose Salish Lodge at the top of the waters, the exterior of Twin Peaks' Great Northern Hotel, run by the duplicitous Ben Horne. Misty peaks, verdant trees, fresh cherry pie: the real 'Twin Peaks' 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Whether the show lives up to their expectations or the grandiose claims that Mr. Mahdavi and his colleagues make for it, will be a matter of taste. | 'Crazy Horse': ?Crazy Horse? by Frederick Wiseman - Review 2012-01-17T23:09:27Z The point is that there's nothing high-minded or grandiose about this – it's fun. On Poetry by Glyn Maxwell – review 2012-07-13T21:55:02Z As with his peers' pop hits – and this is the new pop – Devlin's music is grand, even grandiose. New band of the day ? No 841: Devlin 2010-08-05T14:29:00Z There is a certain kind of son who is often living between a rather rough, sometimes grandiose father and a helpless mother. Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Perhaps, but these grandiose dreams may not have been too far off. You don't have to be rich to lead an 'eco friendly' lifestyle - here's how I do it 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z A natural ham, Grammer only amplifies what is grandiose and bogus in this material. ‘The God Committee’ Review: At a Hospital, Judgment Day 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z If you have ever driven north on the M6 and looked left between junctions 33 and 34, you may have been puzzled by this grandiose, green-domed folly dominating the skyline. Lancaster's Dukes theatre: the great outdoors 2013-07-04T14:13:02Z There is no escaping history, though: Das Stue is in a curved 1930s Fascist-style stone building that was designed in concert with Albert Speer’s grandiose plans for the capital. In Berlin, History Squares Off Against Hip 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z “Those grandiose fantasies still echoed as man and wife now sat facing one another in their new squalor.” Rubble and Repression: An Intimate Look at Germany in the Decade After Hitler 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z Rather than embarking on grandiose odysseys, these are understated albums that squeeze into intimate spaces, inverting the work that concept albums used to do. Perspective | A hotel room more interesting than the cosmos: In praise of the downsized concept album 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z Will it be as grandiose as the previous series? Brian Cox: Physics is better than rock'n'roll 2011-03-24T08:01:00Z The web might seem like a fairly tame environment for such an adventurous temperament, but it is also the repository of — or at least the inspiration for — mind-blowingly grandiose ideas. Review: ‘Lo and Behold,’ the Danger, and Potential, of the Digital Revolution 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Theatrical but not grandiose, with an edge of humor, it’s a cannily judged introduction to the work of Ms. Levete and her practice, AL_A. A British Architect Finds Her Solo Voice 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z Sweden's flexed pixieish power as she hammered on drums and poured out her frustrations in grandiose -like break-up songs, then demonstrated a lush ballad voice on a staggering cover of the Drifters' "Please Stay." Lollapalooza closes on high note 2011-08-08T02:22:00Z He referred to Trump as “chaotic, corrupt, incurious, infantile, grandiose.” Perspective | ‘We’re not doctors’: The perils for journalists in assessing Trump’s mental health 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z They fit this Manhattan musician and self-proclaimed “purple panther” well: his rhymes are explosive, unfussy and untethered to the trends of some of his more grandiose peers. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z "Cultural catalyst" is comically grandiose, yet not inaccurate. A fitting headstone for Tony Wilson's grave 2010-10-26T19:00:00Z But as any politician knows, even the most grandiose words are just words. Newt Gingrich and the Dawn of a Toxic Political Era 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z But he scoffs at the notion that Washington can transform other countries against their will or under less-than-ideal conditions, and he scorns those who assign the military grandiose tasks that can’t be accomplished. How Can the U.S. Fix Its Foreign Policy? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Many critics at the Venice Film Festival last week were scornful: a grandiose, self-aggrandizing statement like this makes for an easy target. At the Telluride Film Festival, ‘Women Talking’ and Other Topics of Conversation 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z But some in attendance, perhaps hopped up on free espresso, jokingly reached for even more grandiose claims. ArtsBeat: In a Brooklyn Cafe, It's Write! Camera! Action! 2012-11-20T00:06:03Z If you analyze what was happening between November and January, during the transition period, you will see that they were getting ready for a grandiose project. Garry Kasparov Says We Are Living in Chaos, But Remains an Incorrigible Optimist 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z My tastes run more towards the dark and absurd than the epic and grandiose. My life with J.J. Abrams: The moral code of the celebrity Doppelgänger 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Other essays have the kind of grandiose titles you’d expect from a more traditional book on craft: “The Writing Life,” “The Autobiography of My Novel,” “On Becoming an American Writer.” Writing as Drag: Alexander Chee’s Essays Consider the Novelist’s Craft 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The sly question teased in “Unbreakable,” the mystery that sets it apart from run-of-the-mill grandiose superhero fables, is whether Dunn is the real deal or if Glass merely wants a foil worthy of his self-aggrandizement. ‘Glass’ Movie Review: A Nutty Ride With M. Night Shyamalan 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Galgut's not after any kind of universal truth, however: at no point is his book maudlin or grandiose. The Booker prize-shortlisted tale by Damon Galgut that's both truth and fiction 2010-09-08T08:50:00Z At times Kraftwerk seem like pioneers, at others they just seem to delight in doing what others are doing, just that little bit better – the sound that tiny bit clearer, the space more grandiose. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night eight: Tour de France 2013-02-15T16:43:55Z Unlike other movies about jihad, “Horses of God,” doesn’t concentrate on the terrorists’ grandiose indoctrination and the rituals of their final meals, prayers and preparations, which can attach a perverse glamour to suicide. ‘Horses of God,’ Nabil Ayouch’s Film About Islamic Extremism 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z It’s the end of the year, which means ’tis the season for grandiose hyperbole. This May Have Been the Best Year for Women Since the Dawn of Time 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z You see the effects of poverty, and the grandiose claims that imperial nations make about the mission to civilise, which in practice doesn’t happen. Paul Theroux on travelling 2012-06-25T11:00:00Z What Scott delivers in “Alien: Covenant” is the simulacrum of seriousness without the sense of self-conscious silliness, a grim earnestness that’s reinforced by a thudding, grandiose aesthetic that utterly lacks originality. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z And he’s hesitant to make any grandiose declarations about suddenly transforming into an actor. Adam Levine changes his tune in ‘Begin Again’ 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z He notes, for example, that elections in African countries often feature grandiose, larger-than-life candidates and violent outbreaks among a party’s supporters and opponents. Despite the beatdown, reporters love the Trump beat 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z What Mussolini did to the medieval city to make space for his grandiose triumphal Road of the Imperial Forums was a different kind of civil sack. ‘Rome: A History in Seven Sackings’ Review: The City That Survived 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z No matter how grandiose the space, it’s a good bet that Mr. Tepperberg will still tend to matters quietly, leaving the stage to the celebrities. | Noah Tepperberg: A Nightclub Mogul Can?t Avoid the Spotlight 2010-08-31T23:24:00Z Yes, it's ever so slightly self-indulgent – and grandiose. Dancing on the Edge; The Year of Making Love – TV review 2013-02-05T07:00:11Z I point out how different this seems from the more grandiose Serpentine Pavilions. Edinburgh festival: art comes out of the gallery 2012-08-10T21:54:01Z First, there’s the grandiose certainty of the marriage’s opponents, who cite Scripture and what they see as the intent of God and the proper way of nature. TV Tonight: The Loving Story 2012-02-14T19:12:46Z “Black Ribbons” is grandiose, resentful and way, way overcooked. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-28T23:00:00Z In the historical novel “Under Fishbone Clouds” one character pauses to contemplate the failure of Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution and its grandiose plans to change the world. Books of The Times: Dumplings With the Kitchen God 2010-12-08T23:25:00Z |
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