grandiose

Example Sentences

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Many of those projects have struggled as grandiose vision and gravity-defying architectural plans have met budget reality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"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

His grandiose persona rubbed many the wrong way early on, earning him a villain label.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

Donovan’s arm swept outward in a vague, grandiose gesture, “You got me!”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov