grandeur
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The first shot has a miserable grandeur: a frigid landscape, frozen berries and wind so strong it nearly blows a starving traveler sideways.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2026
The cover of “Communion” eschews the grandeur of a Catholic cathedral, in favor of a photograph of a humble Methodist chapel in a rural part of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026
Shubow dismissed it as “ho-hum” and “lacking the grandeur of full-blown classical architecture.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
He did etchings, lithographs, even stained glass windows - equally at home working with the grandeur of opera design and the intimacy of pen and ink.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
She had to make a great effort not to throw at them their prissiness, their poverty of spirit, their delusions of grandeur.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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