grandioseness

“And to reflect the different sides of being a kid, because those toys are kids as well. They have the grandioseness that kids have and they are naive. They are figuring it out just like William is.”

It was a typical revolution story that didn’t seem to match the grandioseness of the stories that came before it.

Herman Melville could display, at times, a somewhat iron fancy with rather more of grandioseness and terror in its fibre than genuine fancy admits.

What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing that this grandioseness and this burlesque should be amicable neighbors, that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the Judgment Day, and to-morrow into the reed-flute!

As regards the sacred dramas this grandioseness of conception extended even to the villains of the piece, who must be greater, more muscular, thorough-going, unredeemed villains than any now existing.