He talks in a grandiloquent and boastful manner. From LearnThat.org.
Her memoir was called Living History, though she habitually fails to live up to the title's grandiloquent claim. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Katovsky: If Hillary Loses - Will She Blame it on "The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy?"] Reference
It would seem that the grandiloquent dedications prevalent in those days had not escaped her youthful penetration. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
A grandiloquent and boastful manner. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Indeed, judged by Anglo-Saxon habit, they would be termed grandiloquent and verbose. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development] Reference
The study also faults America for relying on "grandiloquent" rhetoric rather than careful diplomacy to build support for its missions. From Wordnik.com. [Primary Sources] Reference
Sympathetic avowals and grandiloquent phrases, such as. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
You bored me to tears with your grandiloquent prolixity. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
Phillips; as witty and irregular as Thomas Corwin; as grandiloquent as. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail] Reference
A truer, if more grandiloquent, assessment was made by Winston Churchill. From Wordnik.com. [The Plan And The Man] Reference
The whole passage is, of course, in parody of the grandiloquent style of Aeschylus. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
The letters are current, witty, and simple; the published work is stilted and grandiloquent. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
You hence have recourse to these grandiloquent arguments to shove words of counsel down my throat!. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
The glass door was thrown open for him to pass through, with a gesture that was positively grandiloquent. From Wordnik.com. ["Contemptible", by "Casualty"] Reference
"Not a chance," said the grandiloquent new darling of the hard right, with a nod to rally co-star Sarah Palin. From Wordnik.com. [Hans Johnson: Extremism, the Makeover, and Election 2010] Reference
Upon such grandiloquent occasions you will find that side by side with a poem in Greek there figured a speech in. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Mr. Blaine, in reply, referred to Mr. Conkling's "grandiloquent swell" and his "turkey gobbler strut," and concluded. From Wordnik.com. [Political Recollections 1840 to 1872] Reference
In 1907 the first complete military airship in England was built, which bore the grandiloquent title of Nulli Secundus. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
He disdains colleagues who blow hard behind closed doors, who indulge themselves in grandiloquent statements of principle. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Inside] Reference
Love in "1984" is grandiloquent, an escape from reality, based on false hope and desperation -- just as it was in the book. From Wordnik.com. [High Notes] Reference
But what's remarkable is how much of "City of Hope's" epic ambition pays off, with a power that never becomes grandiloquent. From Wordnik.com. [No One Is Immune From The Rot] Reference
Among them all there was but one of two floors, a substantial red-brick little house with a most grandiloquent chimney-stack. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
He loathes the war, and the grandiloquent speeches of politicians irritate him by their failure to realize how loathesome war is. From Wordnik.com. [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference
The idea of tactical retreat must have been perceived by one of those brilliant inventors with grandiloquent revolutionary theories. From Wordnik.com. [LASO CLOSING SESSION] Reference
For some have been grandiloquent men, (if I may use such an expression,) with an abundant dignity of sentiments and majesty of language. From Wordnik.com. [The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4] Reference
These praises were in the form of grandiloquent, overloaded poetry, full of strange similes and allusions, but with little real feeling. From Wordnik.com. [A History of China] Reference
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