grandiloquent

• “Overview: For his most popular book, Tom Brokaw coined the grandiloquent term ‘The Greatest Generation’ for the Americans who fought and triumphed in the crucible of World War II.”

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• “Indeed, judged by Anglo-Saxon habit, they would be termed grandiloquent and verbose.”

  Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development

• “The study also faults America for relying on "grandiloquent" rhetoric rather than careful diplomacy to build support for its missions.”

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• “One thing you notice is that the smaller and crappier a country is, the more soaring and grandiloquent is the music of its anthem, even where the lyrics don't say a lot because the country doesn't have much to brag about inasmuch as it has a turnip-based economy.”

  The Washington Post: What so proudly we failed

• “By the end of my visit I would have been happy to see photographs of kittens or even some grandiloquent paintings by Julian Schnabel, anything not so proud of being self-referential and small time.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Snapshot of a Movement

• “Please show me where I was “insincere” or used “grandiloquent language” in #7.”

  Atheists against postage stamps « Anglican Samizdat

• “Although the term “rhetoric” has several meanings, most of which are positive, am I right in assuming you are attaching this meaning to it: insincere or grandiloquent language?”

  Atheists against postage stamps « Anglican Samizdat

• “With such grandiloquent kitsch (and the author's implicit acceptance of its absurdity) and a cleverly freighted jeer thrown at a bandmate, we have the ingredients of a definitive rock star memoir.”

  The Wall Street Journal: So You Want To Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star

• “Then Tennant was back to the theater to play Hamlet, so what would have been 2009's season became a handful of specials, all leading up to a Christmas and New Year's two-parter in which the tenth doctor passed on in another grandiloquent Russell T. Davies spectacular, this time called "The End of Time.”

  The Huffington Post: William Bradley: A Welcome Blast From the New Doctor Who

• “Not that I am likening the Sardinian sex parties and dodgy property portfolios of our crooning capitalist to the gorgeously grandiloquent goings-on of that jewel-encrusted clan.”

  The Huffington Post: Frederic Whyte: The Long-Overdue Demise of Silvio Berlusconi

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