Adjective : grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.    From Dictionary.com. 

REVIEW SUMMARY: An immersive, grand-scale space opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [January 2006] Reference

No ordinary crooks there, but really grand-scale villains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Hayden: Meet the New Dr. Strangelove] Reference

But, B, it shows the -- you know, these rather grand-scale plans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden] Reference

We want to remember someone who brought us light and color on a grand-scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2009] Reference

In the past decade, the grand-scale Hollywood premiere has fallen from grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now Showing:] Reference

MSM is on a grand-scale mission to subtly but surely sign this election off to McBush.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Jokes About Obama's Overseas Trip And Press Coverage] Reference

It outlines all these risks and the role of Ms. Couric in this grand-scale, medical fraud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of a statin ad | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

Don't we all know by now that a very small number of people benefit from these grand-scale events?.    From Wordnik.com.  [anachronism] Reference

But these nations were only doing on small-scale what the American Bankers were doing on a grand-scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

There is no “eBook” or “Google-Search” to explain the metrics of value and strategy on a grand-scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domain Industry Rocked By Shill Auction Bidding Admission] Reference

It's a fittingly dramatic way to relaunch a venue that has a grand-scale appreciation for the art of moving images.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Film Transforms Our Reality] Reference

Introducing the trailer, Nolan said, "This is an original script for a grand-scale film designed for the big screen.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ShoWest Day 4: The Party Ends With Day-Long Celebration] Reference

This is what is needed to shakeupthe very smug and arrogant grand-scale ward heelers weare saddled within the leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cleaning the Two Party Garbage Out of the DrainTo Make Room for the Cream of the Heart] Reference

"The Valley of the Gardens" by Tony Daniel is a grand-scale space opera of war and love, told in two eventually-connecting threads.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 2 edited by Jonathan Strahan] Reference

Expositions in centuries past promoted grand-scale engineering feats -- from steamboats and grain combines to satellites and rocket ships.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Fair Could Flop] Reference

Saturday's event produced the world's first grand-scale portrait of the global climate movement-and most of them looked nothing like Al Gore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amanda Little: Eight Reasons for Hope on Climate Change] Reference

On May 10, 1917, the British naval mission in Washington heard another grand-scale proposal involving a vast webbing of mines and nets that would stretch across the same area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles of Steel]

A multitude of TV critics -- including the Post's own Hank Stuever -- had already trumpeted "Boardwalk Empire" as an example of epic, grand-scale television of the finest order.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Boardwalk Empire': Did it live up to the reviews?] Reference

It's the most grand-scale S&M fantasy I've ever heard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trouble With Spikol] Reference

The state of the art in grand-scale, two-disc space operas.    From Wordnik.com.  [RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds] Reference

Ready for a grand-scale epic that the entire family will love?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Craig Daily Press stories] Reference

Big consulting companies want to do only massive, grand-scale things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

What we have here is a grand-scale brutality and intra-state terrorism.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

"Green" candidates, and finds that the election hoax of 2008 is being recreated in grand-scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [TRUTH AZ Committee Formed Exposing Arizona's Sham Candidates in Recordings -- PHOENIX, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --] Reference

Zubo is an attempt to bring the grand-scale adventure of role-playing games to a younger audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference

A grand-scale rethink of financial standards is also important, experts say, but will take more time.    From Wordnik.com.  [CFR.org -] Reference

Wednesday night in the city centre felt more akin to a grand-scale music festival than a music moment.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The bank bailout that the White House and Congress pushed on us was nothing less than grand-scale looting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Party for Socialism and Liberation Stories] Reference

It was nothing like the more recently uncovered grand-scale larceny in the Ponzi schemes of Bernard Madoff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories From AOL News] Reference

University officials said they understood that her death might end such grand-scale giving by the Annenberg family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philly.com - Latest Videos] Reference

De-Haven, a once championed figure in the emcee's lyrics, and a grand-scale dealer of the late '80s and early' 90s.    From Wordnik.com.  [HipHopDX.com >] Reference

His screen print "Campbell's Soup (Chicken Noodle)" transports an ordinary object into a larger-than-life, grand-scale artwork.    From Wordnik.com.  [www.appeal-democrat.com - News :] Reference

His grand-scale projects promise fun, from new baseball stadiums to an ill-fated attempt to host the 2012 Olympics in New York.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference