grandiloquent

“Liquid silk,” “otherworldly,” “heaven in a cup,” and more resounding, grandiloquent, highly praiseful words and phrases fill your mind when you taste this amazing brew.

But it is one that predictably becomes more complicated in the Situation Room than it seems at the podium during a grandiloquent speech.

They sometimes drew on the singing talents of Mr. Lee and his two sisters, Consuela Lee Moorehead, a jazz pianist and music teacher at Hampton University in Virginia, and Grace Lee Mims, a librarian, whose voices lent grandiloquent color to the tales.

“Mott Street” is less successful when it awkwardly strains for a kind of grandiloquent universality, as when she asks, “Who among us wouldn’t contemplate our own mortality in the seemingly endless hours spent in a dark, airless, body-sized box?” referring to her relatives’ journey to the United States.

When he waxed poetic about his salad days as the page of the Duke of Norfolk, his voice turned light, proud and assured — grandiloquent, yes, but also creditable.