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/grˌændiˈoʊs/ /grˈændiˌoʊs/ Listen

adjective

Grandiose adj.

Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; in a good sense. "The tone of the parts was to be perpetually kept down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole." "The grandiose red tulips which grow wild."

Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.

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"Grandiose" Quotes from Famous Books

... forest consists in its variety. France itself, the "splendid hexagon," with its mountains, rivers and plains, is hardly more varied than this vast area of rock and woodland. We can choose between sites, savage or idyllic, pastoral or grandiose, here finding a sunny glade, the very spot for a picnic, there break-neck declivities and gloomy chasms. The magnificent ruggedness of Alpine scenery is before our eyes, without the awfulness of snow-clad peaks or the blinding dazzle of glacier. In more than one ...

— East of Paris - Sketches in the Gatinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne • Matilda Betham-Edwards

... were in a huge open space that must once have been a park in the center of the city. There were structures which could not possibly be other than government buildings. But the population of this world was small. They were not grandiose. There were walkways and some temporary buildings obviously thrown hastily together to house ...

— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... the Bismarck exchanged lively flag signals. Yet the whole grandiose vision, from the moment of its appearance to its disappearance, lasted only three minutes. In that time the seething ocean was flooded with light. It was not until nothing remained of the Bismarck but a dancing mist of light that its band came on deck ...

— Atlantis • Gerhart Hauptmann

... had foreseen the criticisms that would rise in my mind as soon as I saw the servile effects of a courtier's life upon him. Monsieur de Mortsauf, king in his own castle and surrounded by an historic halo, had, to my eyes, a certain grandiose dignity. I was therefore greatly astonished at the distance he placed between the duchess and himself by manners that were nothing less than obsequious. A slave has his pride and will only serve the greatest ...

— The Lily of the Valley • Honore de Balzac

... insists on the unexpressed but inexorable scale by which Andrew and his following measured Lincoln. They had grown up in the faith that you could tell a statesman by certain external signs, chiefly by a grandiose and commanding aspect such as made overpowering the presence of Webster. And this idea was not confined to any one locality. Everywhere, more or less, the conservative portion in every party held this view. It was the view of Washington ...

— Lincoln • Nathaniel Wright Stephenson

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