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“Its not just the republicans against his grandoise ideas!”
“It sounds like you're making some grandoise claim, but what action could possibly unconvince a Calvinist that everyone was not "totally depraved?”
“At the far end of the scale are grandoise religious and philosophical abstractions, while at the other aretrivialmatters, debates that no sane person wouldtry to legalise.”
“This gives way to what clinicians call ‘narcissistic entitlement’ — grandoise illusions, inner emptiness.”
“Congress perpetually votes itself grandoise pay hikes, and then has the audacity to deny a poor struggling worker what amounts to pennies.”
“So let us not draw the big, grandoise conclusion that ID is right just yet, eh?”
“But listen, lack of specific knowledge concerning the brain certainly should not stop us from drawing big, grandoise conclusions!!”
“There was a lot of political solidarity and I received a grandoise welcome.”
“But now, the burden is on the party leaders to reach into the circuits of the nation's psyche and capture the subconscious allegiance of the people -- not through grandoise promises but with an understanding appropriate to this particular moment in our history.”
“[Text] A grandoise meeting of Cuban-Chilean friendship has taken place in”
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Telofy “Servants from the House Absolute, it seemed, had brought timbers and nails, tools and paint and cloth in quantities much greater than we could possibly make use of. Their generosity had waked the doctor’s bent toward the grandiose (which never slumbered deeply) and he alternated between assisting Baldanders and me with the heavier constructions and making frantic additions to the manuscript of his play.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator Oct 8, 2010
vanishedone A Galápagos giant tortoise, perhaps? Apr 5, 2009