grandiose

1 It's a grand claim and this is at times a grandiose book.

2 His songs sometimes ended without ceremony, and he consistently cut short his own most powerful gestures, as if refusing to be grandiose.

3 Travel to thin places does not necessarily lead to anything as grandiose as a “spiritual breakthrough,” whatever that means, but it does disorient.

4 In Jobs' typically grandiose manner, he promises that "the planet's going to shift on its axis nigh and forever" once he unveils his latest wonder.

5 In fourth grade I embarked upon a grandiose reading program.

6 The lover's increasingly grandiose promises stand out all the more as stark fabrication against such a background.

7 But in what would be a baffling paradox, were this anyone but Berlioz, the Requiem is subtle and chastened more often than grandiose and bombastic.

8 The highway’s lonely two lanes originate in the rather cheekily named town of Weed — this is, after all, northern California — and meanders the base of grandiose Mount Shasta, as if not wanting to disturb it.

9 That's all rather superficial though: Python is always slapstick, especially since it's talking about the grandiose.

10 His claim, that he had missed her at every major event in his life, was grandiose, he knew, but it was not entirely false.

11 The tapes of the title seem to fulfill some universal contractual obligation to feature found footage in horror movies, but the ending at least is gratifyingly grandiose.

12 Rather we get clusters of Marxist jargon and sweeping grandiose generalities.

13 Speed's little boat makes for a touching, comic presence: small and vulnerable, but determined, in the grandiose parkland.

14 This is just great TV, simultaneously grandiose and human-scaled -- a "Survivor " specialty.

15 In the end, despite his grandiose designs on the city, he’s just a man of “outraged loneliness” who wants to restore everything except his relationship with his own son.

16 The exhibition starts in a grandiose, upbeat key, with reproductions of designs created in the 1960s by a group of young Japanese architects known as the Metabolists.

17 Indeed, Mr. Baker himself is currently restoring the historic Trident Villas and its nearby Castle, a grandiose private chateau once favored by celebrities like Johnny Depp.

18 This timely plea feels at odds with the way that Ms. Rossellini herself has presented other cultures and, like her title and grandiose preface, outstrips the more limited goals of the book itself.

19 Watts has a remarkable stylistic range, capable of the biggest and most grandiose technical feats, and also the most gossamer, evanescent effects that belie the firepower for which he is famous.

20 "It's not as grandiose as some of the stuff I've gone for before," the singer said in West Hollywood before an appearance on "The Late Late Show With James Corden."

1 壮丽的

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2 崇高的

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3 壮丽

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4 夸张的

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5 堂皇的

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6 浮夸

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7 做作

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8 雄伟

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9 雄伟的

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10 堂皇

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11 沾沾自喜的

smug

12 浮夸的

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13 自以为是的

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14 壮观

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15 夸张

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16 夸大

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17 沾沾自喜

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18 铺张的

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19 宏大的

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20 壮观的

hotsy-totsy spectacular splendid imposing pompous

21 夸大的

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22 宏大

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23 铺张

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24 宏伟的

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25 庞大的

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26 做作的

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27 不切实际的

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28 崇高

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29 华而不实的

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30 宏伟

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31 不切实际

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