grandiloquence

Example Sentences

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The dry grandiloquence of the narration puts Celeste at a remove, making her seem more distant than she might be in a movie more interested in milking the viewer’s empathy and tears.

From New York Times

Like almost everything about the Academy Awards, it rewards tragedy rather than comedy, and grandiloquence rather than subtlety, so there is something operatic in lining up a five-part fantasy league of the best actress winners.

From The Guardian

The grandiosity of their adjectives and adverbs is the grandiloquence of their emotions.

From New York Times

He energizes his soldiers with grandiloquence bordering on the Shakespearean, warning of “bloodthirsty rogues and unrepentant cutthroats bent on nothing short of our pitiless destruction.”

From New York Times

It had all the grandiloquence, Calvert Vaux sneered, of Napoleon III.

From New York Times