Sentence examples for a grand affair from inspiring English sources

When Napoleon faced Wellington on June 18th 1815, it certainly was a grand affair.

In the face of any doubts, the inauguration ceremony on Thursday is set to be a grand affair.

It was a grand affair, a celebration of the arts in New York at a time of budgetary crisis.

Ms. Bhatia described her first shower as a grand affair of more than 100 people that culminated with her cutting a three-tiered crystal-encrusted cake.

NEXT month the great and good gather in New York for the UN's millennium summit, a grand affair that promises monumental tedium.

And what better way to advertise this achievement (besides announcing it in a newspaper) than hosting a grand affair centered on the woman who has fulfilled her dreams?

Others want a grander affair that evokes the national suffering of so many generations of all South Africans.

After Enola Gay, the perkiest song about a nuclear holocaust ever written, OMD's third album was a grander affair, full of blissfully stylish, futuristic pop.

Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark Architecture and Morality (1981) After Enola Gay, the perkiest song about a nuclear holocaust ever written, OMD's third album was a grander affair, full of blissfully stylish, futuristic pop.

On Wednesday night a rather grand affair took place at Carlton Hobbs' gallery.

By the autumn the participants are supposed to have laid out a list of grievances and reforms, together with recommendations on a new constitution and system of government.This grand affair was almost an afterthought to the internationally-endorsed deal signed in November 2011 that finally secured the removal of Ali Abdullah Saleh after 33 years as president and nearly a year of street protests.