grandly
Example Sentences
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Less a recondite modernist experiment than a grandly mysterious yet accessible achievement, the composition marked a profound shift in 20th-century classical music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
This contrasts soon, however, with the surviving oaks, shown standing grandly among empty, otherwise deserted streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 8, 2026
And pretty quickly thereafter, some slamming winter rains did their own kind of christening and Prospect Bar got washed away, to be replaced almost at once by the even more grandly named Eldoradoville.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
Each of these side characters is introduced theatrically — intertitles grandly announce their names as they appear in the tale, and flash an “End” onscreen when they exit.
From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024
Then, realizing that I had forgotten the wagon, I returned grandly to retrieve it.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
