grandioseness

Example Sentences

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It was a typical revolution story that didn’t seem to match the grandioseness of the stories that came before it.

From The Verge • Dec. 2, 2021

Herman Melville could display, at times, a somewhat iron fancy with rather more of grandioseness and terror in its fibre than genuine fancy admits.

From Time Magazine Archive

As regards the sacred dramas this grandioseness of conception extended even to the villains of the piece, who must be greater, more muscular, thorough-going, unredeemed villains than any now existing.

From Ex Voto by Butler, Samuel