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- noun Plural form of
grandiosity .
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Examples
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Like Flann O'Brien in the De Selby novels, Syjuco has considerable fun with the grandiosities of academe.
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco Joseph O'Connor 2010
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Ross Perot mined this good government vein in his two presidential bids with a call to put our own house in order before promising new grandiosities and foreign interventionism.
J. Bradley Jansen: For Liberty Examines the Kingmakers J. Bradley Jansen 2010
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Elshtain asserts that women in the West have been cast as a collective Beautiful Soul and that Hegel captured an epoch (the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries), abstracting from social and cultural forces at work and honing them into dense grandiosities.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Ross Perot mined this good government vein in his two presidential bids with a call to put our own house in order before promising new grandiosities and foreign interventionism.
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Ross Perot mined this good government vein in his two presidential bids with a call to put our own house in order before promising new grandiosities and foreign interventionism.
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In Symbolic Formulation drawing on the extensible chivalric romance tradition (Amadis de Gaul?), the dramatic climax may be spectacular but doesn't really seem like a crisis of spectacle; the action builds against fantastic backdrops, but those backdrops are separable, CGI grandiosities of castles, mountains and battles against which the human-level drama takes place.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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It's just action against fantastic backdrops, CGI grandiosities of little import in dramatic terms.
More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007
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Ross Perot mined this good government vein in his two presidential bids with a call to put our own house in order before promising new grandiosities and foreign interventionism.
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Some Mao-era grandiosities remain visible, like the décor of the Great Hall of the People, China's parliament building, from which state photographs resembling the recent North Korean exemplar still emerge.
Julian Baird Gewirtz: Thoughts on Kitsch and Culture after Mao 2009
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Charles Stuart's letter, arriving a month later, made no mention of the child, but according to Jamie, was even more incoherent than usual, seething with vague plans and grandiosities.
Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992
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