grandeur
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The photographs were almost absurdly theatrical: silver serving pieces and candelabras, the gilt-and-cream grandeur of the White House, and, arrayed beneath it all, mountains of branded fast-food packaging.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
But here Dudamel became more simply an architect of awe, unfazed by Mahlerian uncertainty as he worked his way to an inevitable cosmic grandeur unfazed by uncertainty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Here is declamation as we might have imagined coming from a rhapsode, for Mr. McKellen brings grandeur to his reading.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Word of the country’s natural grandeur and abundant resources seeped back east, and by the mid-1800s Manifest Destiny—the supposedly divinely ordained quest to expand across the whole continent—became a rallying cry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 20, 2026
And for a moment he had wonderful delusions of grandeur.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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