grandiose

Example Sentences

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It’s all gotten too ego-driven, too strangely dependent on the magic of personality, too vainglorious and, yes, grandiose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

"The grandiose promises of destroying Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran are not coming true," said Dahlia Scheindlin, a Policy Fellow at the Mitvim Institute, a think tank focused on Israeli foreign policy.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

Tellingly, though, the moment has very little to do with her characters, which are yet again overwhelmed by her grandiose ideas.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Donovan’s arm swept outward in a vague, grandiose gesture, “You got me!”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov