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He sounded very grandiloquent, and perhaps very poetic at times in the interview.

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  1. Speaking or expressed in a lofty style; bombastic; pompous. On March 2,1770, there was a scuffle at a rope-walk between some soldiers and the ropemakers, and on the night of the 5th there occurred the tragedy which, in the somewhat grandiloquent phrase of John Adams, “laid the foundation of American Independence.” Lecky, Eng. in 18th Cent., xii.

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  • Besides, I did not want to waste my muse on one whom I consider superficial and grandiloquent, a swashbuckling pop star, simply because he had committed incest (very probably) with Augusta Leigh. —  A Guilty Thing Surprised
  • This may sound arrogant or grandiloquent, but it's the kind of journalism that the public needs, even if it doesn't always want it. —  Nicholas D. Kristof
  • His fantasy press conference at the end of the G20, with his grandiloquent (and preposterous) claim to have founded a "new world order", confirmed it. —  Latest Articles
  • He sounded very grandiloquent, and perhaps very poetic at times in the interview. —  All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
  • Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent: turgid prose. —  Latest Articles
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  1. = Spanish grandilocuente = Italian grandiloquente, from Latin grandis, great, grand, + loquen (t-)s, present participle of loqui, speak. Cf. grandiloquous.
 

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