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
Callas’ was, indeed, a life of conflicts between the artist who grandly became La Callas and the woman who was Maria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2024
Here, water transport assumes a form that is grandly ritualistic if decidedly prosaic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
He had also shown entrepreneurial instincts as a teenager, creating the grandly named United Enterprises to supply student labor for such tasks as house painting and lawn care.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
“Mr. Greene and I met through my mother,” Ignatius answered grandly for Dorian.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
