Sentence examples for High grandeur from inspiring English sources

For despite its occasional depictions of the apocalypse and its moments of high grandeur, Messiaen's music never aimed at achieving any goal other than that of celebrating his faith or hymning the wonders of the animate and inanimate world around him.

The day before the event, Heschel sent the president a telegram about civil rights, asking him to declare the nation's racial inequality a "state of moral emergency" and to act with "high moral grandeur and spiritual audacity".

Imagine a crop of new restaurants without even one that strives for the high-gloss grandeur represented by Gordon Ramsay at the London last year, Del Posto the year before, or Per Se the year before that.

Vast neoclassical apartment blocks still line the main roads here – talking about living in one of these Stalin-era apartments, architectural student Konstantin Budarin says "they fulfil my idea of dignity", with their high ceilings and grandeur.

With its high ceilings and hushed grandeur, it feels like a sanctuary.

In the old town there's faded grandeur and high ceilings at the Spléndido Hotel (doubles £16-£30 £16-£30

The risks of navel-gazing and delusions of grandeur are high when the media itself takes on that question.

Revealing the catastrophic impact of seemingly minor events on people who are struggling to subsist, De Sica endows slender side business and incidental pictorial details with high suspense and tragic grandeur.

And though "O" doesn't try to compete with the grandeur and high drama of Balanchine's "Apollo," neither does it suggest another path through Stravinsky's magisterial score.

It was clear from the opening chords that Mr. Nasseri's focus was on the work's grandeur and high drama, but even so his fluid tempos kept you guessing how the balance of athleticism and poetry would tilt at any moment, or how close to the edge of losing control he would take his frenzied account of the finale.

The White House that the American public sees is a place of grandeur and high purpose, the shrine where Presidents greet foreign leaders and host glittering state dinners, where leaders brandish the veto pen and solemnly announce the dispatch of military forces overseas.