grandiose

Example Sentences

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"The grandiose promises of destroying Hezbollah and Hamas and Iran are not coming true," said Dahlia Scheindlin, a Policy Fellow at the Mitvim Institute, a think tank focused on Israeli foreign policy.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

One almost gets a sense that the great doers of history were like robots, temporarily inhabited by an otherworldly spiritual force or, alternatively, were stick figures that Hegel moved about on his grandiose world-historical tableau.

From Salon • Mar. 28, 2026

This kind of content is what Donaldson has become known for: convoluted challenges and grandiose philanthropic efforts.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 17, 2026

Even when I was 9, Presley struck me as embarrassingly grandiose and cheesier than Wisconsin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

To keep them, they offered Hubler a special deal: his own proprietary trading group, with its own grandiose name: GPCG, or the Global Proprietary Credit Group.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis