From earnestness to grandiloquence was but a step. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
False familiarity, and rhetorical grandiloquence . From Wordnik.com. [Ending the Culture of Entitlement] Reference
It was a moment when his grandiloquence disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [Linda Keenan: Dreams From His Mother] Reference
I know you enjoy orotund grandiloquence and righteous insult. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Mitterrand persisted in this grandiloquence over the next two years. From Wordnik.com. [A 21st-Century Bretton Woods] Reference
And, in a live setting, Coheed and Cambria's grandiloquence is endearing. From Wordnik.com. [Prog rockers Coheed and Cambria take on 9:30 club in Washington] Reference
He's big and booming in his grandiloquence, an orchestra in and of himself. From Wordnik.com. [A Traitor to Memory]
Maybe Chavez in his grandiloquence to recreate some Inca cosmogony might have this in mind. From Wordnik.com. [Viva Bogota!] Reference
The grandiloquence of his criminal exploits made it virtually impossible for Hollywood to ignore him. From Wordnik.com. [“His story is written in bullets, blood and blondes!” – Dillinger (1945) | Obsessed With Film] Reference
The grandiloquence of the remorse thus flaunted hardly conceals the shrinking of ambitions and resources. From Wordnik.com. [Why democracies despise themselves] Reference
Julian Lewis: "So much to love in Oh & O too, what little of its allegedly 70-track grandiloquence —...". From Wordnik.com. [Disquiet » Popp Music] Reference
Squire Sancho assisted them in their studies, and magnified our importance with the grandiloquence of a Spaniard. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
The first line has taken on some of the grandiloquence of the essay and the last misses the point by a clear mile. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: TRANSLATING JÓZSEF.] Reference
When Mr. Wood goes for glory and achieves only grandiloquence, it seems petty and grudging to say that his thinking lacks rigor. From Wordnik.com. [Lit Crit as It Ought to Be: Open-Eyed, Recklessly Committed] Reference
Colonel's grandiloquence, which he usually reserved for The Greenbush and the town-meeting, without being able to account for it. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
Despite a bit of grandiloquence and a habit of quoting Longfellow (who was, in her defense, a Mainer), she is likable and earnest. From Wordnik.com. [What’s So Hot About Snowe?] Reference
Kumpee's circumlocutory answer was no different than any hustler's grandiloquence about selling one thing or another real or imagined. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
Her books capture the peculiar grandiloquence of children's speech; the ornate sentences, stippled with adverbs like raisins in a cake. From Wordnik.com. [A life in books: Lauren Child] Reference
Arrogance and grandiloquence and presidential congratulations, all was used to that effect, even a cadena of youth and student festival. From Wordnik.com. [The real result of Sunday's election] Reference
"Should we be alarmed or, in our British way, simply amused by the grandiloquence and abstract theorising in parts of the constitution?". From Wordnik.com. [A Bill of Frights] Reference
In fact, our readers, we are sure, will find the grandiloquence of these two tragedy-writers so very good that a little will suffice them. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The talk of a barber about the buckle of his wig told him more about the character of the French than the grandiloquence of her statesmen. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference
What grandiloquence Nono had prepared never transpired. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden House] Reference
He was young, and liked a bit of grandiloquence as well as another. From Wordnik.com. [Phoebe, Junior] Reference
He offered comment very chilling to the warm grandiloquence of the orator. From Wordnik.com. [Penrod] Reference
He adored eloquence, not to say grandiloquence: he was the son of a barrister. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
She knew all the lines by heart, in their spacious grandiloquence; lines such as. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
Here lies the distinction between grandiloquence and genuine fancy or bold imaginativeness. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
And yet, for all its grandiloquence, there was something in his speech that rang hard and true. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Sunset] Reference
It is extravagant grandiloquence confined to a newspaper about the size of a double letter sheet. From Wordnik.com. [Roughing It] Reference
Possibly Miss Corson was covering embarrassment with the jaunty grandiloquence that she displayed. From Wordnik.com. [All-Wool Morrison] Reference
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