overgrand

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With its immense boulevards, overgrand buildings, and monumental spaces, it presents the most unabashedly totalitarian cityscape in the world today, the kind of parade-ground capital that governments everywhere dream of building — hinted at in Washington, D.C., and achieved in Moscow to a greater degree, but nowhere executed to this extent.

Beijing's Olympic Makeover 2008
He was an overgrand body himself, and had excellent manners. "

Then Marched the Brave Anna S. [Illustrator] Hicks