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France, -- war, in which every ancestor of mine whom I care to recall aggrandised the name that descends to me.

The Parisians — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

War, with all its perils and all its grandeur, -- war lifts on high the banners of France, -- war, in which every ancestor of mine whom I care to recall aggrandised the name that descends to me.

The Parisians — Volume 10 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Once heard, that first spectacular aural idea never returns in this 30-minute score, written in the 1890s for a late-Romantic orchestra aggrandised with extra horns, low woodwind, tubas, two harps and extravagant percussion.

CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review 2012

A man who steps over the metaphorical bodies of anyone who gets in the way of his quest for self-aggrandised power.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

Where the latter becomes co-opted to the service of psycho-cultural institutions of Empire (i.e. where "order" is aggrandised as an end in and of itself, "perfect" as a quality rather than the measure of a quality), it becomes necessary, in my opinion, to adopt a Dionsysian strategy of antidoxy, to attack sophistry with song, to fight ideology with imagination.

An A-Z Of This Blog Hal Duncan 2007

Where the latter becomes co-opted to the service of psycho-cultural institutions of Empire (i.e. where "order" is aggrandised as an end in and of itself, "perfect" as a quality rather than the measure of a quality), it becomes necessary, in my opinion, to adopt a Dionsysian strategy of antidoxy, to attack sophistry with song, to fight ideology with imagination.

Archive 2007-12-01 Hal Duncan 2007

I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't be any worse than the current crop of overpromoted and self aggrandised nonentities that we have at the moment.

Carwyn Is he Leadership Material ? Valleys Mam 2008

Currently looks like it'll be sniffles aggrandised by bored pundits to man flu.

Guardian Hippy Decca Aitkenhead: Move Over Darling 2008

The Pope himself had no desire to see Spain so aggrandised as to be able to dictate to Christendom.

England under the Tudors

He took care to give his friends from the Highlands a magnificent notion of his great personal consequence, which, of course, they aggrandised when they returned to the hills.

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various