Sentence examples for Grandiose scale from inspiring English sources

Despite the grandiose scale of the St. Peter's undertaking, Bramante continued to work on lesser projects.

It developed into a conglomeration of secluded caliphal palaces and houses for the troops on a grandiose scale.

He went on to be a successful architect, not unlike Herr Todt, though on a less grandiose scale.

They are funny and touching because of the disproportionate relationship between their grandiose scale and their goofy images, which resemble those of downbeat Father's Day greeting cards.

The show, for logistical reasons, hasn't any of the vast historical canvases he painted but those, one fears, only reinforce his essential derivativeness on a more grandiose scale.

Large drawings, spare and mostly abstract, are the least interesting, and the incorporation of footprints and studio debris does little to make a case for their grandiose scale.

Not since the Septuagint had a translation of the Bible been undertaken under royal sponsorship as a cooperative venture on so grandiose a scale.

But no form has transported more people toward imaginary regions on such a grandiose physical scale as Disney's theme parks.

Deliberately grandiose in scale, this far-from-humble 18-room home has four terraces, eight and a half bathrooms and nine gaslit fireplaces, each sheathed in a different shade of marble and accentuated by a distinctive mahogany mantel.

"People love to have grandiose, grand-scale kitchens," she said, wrinkling her nose.

In the final gallery Picasso's mountainous "Nude Under a Pine Tree," from 1959, locks eyes — and a grandiose sense of scale — with a demonic 1945 portrait by Jean Dubuffet.