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grandiosity

[ UK /ɡɹˌændɪˈɒsɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    the grandiosity of his prose
    an excessive ornateness of language

How To Use grandiosity In A Sentence

  • Is that a portent of grandiosity, which is sometimes a characteristic of sociopathic personality? CNN Transcript May 24, 2007
  • That so many around the world are humoring his grandiosity is owing mainly to the country's impressive deposits of oil, which began to be developed intensively after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Sultan of the Steppes
  • indeed, in its orotund grandiosity, its declamatory incoherence, its choliambic grandeur, and its unedited seediness, it threatens to leave me fixed here in speechlessness, gaping. Making Light: Rowling's being sued for plagiarism again
  • His rhetoric is larded with mythic grandiosity that amuses the jaded Western ear.
  • There is the grandiosity of that self-description – splendidly undercut by the prosaicness of the "twenty practical actions for happiness", which urges people to hug each other, exercise more often and say thank you more often. Happiness: When smiling becomes policy | Editorial
  • Though the film broadly spoofs the priapic grandiosity of heavy-metal acts and riffs knowingly on the rock-doc genre Mr. Reiner, as director Marty DeBergi , is a spoof on Martin Scorsese in "The Last Waltz", it doesn't seem to have aged much in 27 years. Rocking and Rolling in the Wild, Wild East
  • And to what adolescent striving to define an identity do inflated self-esteem and grandiosity not appear attractive?
  • The Thai Buddhist temple external appearance shape grandiosity grand view, the building decorate delicately unsurpassed, possess"Thai art museum" beautiful call, is Thailand culture of pick.
  • One of the real contributions of Relational Life Therapy is the focus on what is technically called "grandiosity" or what is known in the vernacular as pride or ego, which is a state of contemptuousness, feeling better-than, superior or above the rules. Terry Real: Obama vs. Rev. Wright: The Wrongness of Righteousness
  • This recording is not reaching for grandiosity or gimmicky newness.
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