grandiosity

• The music, too, all strings, from Ryoji Ikeda and Steve Reich, though surprisingly melodic for ears accustomed to contemporary composers, wears on those with more antique sensibilities, for it has no dramatic highs and lows, no invitations to grandiosity or fanfare or climax: only a steady seething, an almost tangible web in which the bodies sometimes stick, against which they sometimes fight.
• But all that aside, when you think of Peter Jackson-style grandiosity, and seafront pantomime, it eventually becomes clear what course the —  GreenCine Daily
• She is Candide awash in religiosity, grandiosity, and Neil Diamond. —  Pax Nortona - A Blog by Joel Sax
• Obama must have real, ingrained grandiosity, the kind that is anchored deep in the soul. —  American Thinker
• A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following: —  Latest Articles

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