Grandiloquent

Pemberton will be keeping that flame alive by setting his own questions, sourced online from something called The Grandiloquent Dictionary.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Pemberton will be keeping that flame alive by setting his own questions, sourced online from something called The Grandiloquent Dictionary.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

Grandiloquent patriotism can be fine in its place—I guess today is an especially good day for it—but it should be tempered by a sense of responsibility and morality.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture: 2009

Grandiloquent human rights speeches that amount to nothing have been a hallmark of American foreign policy since at least 1956, when we didn't come to the aid of Hungarians taking part in a rebellion we helped incite.

Sam Black: Hillary Was Right to Downplay Human Rights in China 2009

Grandiloquent declarations like "capital punishment is a societal imperative" also don't generate productive exchange.

Kill the Killers? Arsenian, John 1979

Grandiloquent promise has often been made without result; but one must admire the hard-headed Norman councillors who, representing a little provincial city which in 1884 had but thirty-six thousand inhabitants, gave even this modest sum to assure a future to one who might reflect honor on his country.

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 Various

Grandiloquent in ordinary matters, he "made little fishes talk like whales."

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

Grandiloquent sketches were passing and interchanging before his mind's eye -- Penrod, in noble raiment, marching down the staring street, his shoulders swaying professionally, the roar of the horn he bore submerging all other sounds; Penrod on horseback, blowing the enormous horn and leading wild hordes to battle, while Marjorie Jones looked on from the sidewalk; Penrod astounding his mother and father and sister by suddenly serenading them in the library.

Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

Still, Gingrich the Grandiloquent sneaked through.

NYT > Home Page By FRANK BRUNI 2011

Grandiloquent and sonorous, his lungs seem to play the better for the absence of the heart.

Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819