Sentence examples for a grandiloquent from inspiring English sources

It is a grandiloquent gesture.

Pakistan's government -- regarded as insufficiently pious -- was also taking a grandiloquent beating.

Its Othello is a grandiloquent hero adrift in the age of Freud and naturalism.

And the actors rose to it, Laurence Fishburne managing to anchor the whole thing in a grandiloquent theatricality.

"To speak in a grandiloquent way about it, this whole process is about shaping civil society," Roginsky said.

The program ended with a grandiloquent traversal of Strauss's "Alpine Symphony," in which Mr. Ashkenazy's handsome molding brought out sumptuous warmth, sharp detail and stormy power.

Through dozens of 65ft-high tropical trunks rising up to a forest-like canopy through which the sun's rays pour and dance across the walls, the Sagrada's interior creates a heavenly vision of the New Jerusalem – not a ponderous, grandiloquent, statement of a powerful institution, but a glimpse of God, something free and light and generous and intensely beautiful, a space fit for soaring spirits.

Writing in The New York Times nearly 30 years afterward, when the film was re-released for a brief run, Vincent Canby called it "a gaudy, grandiloquent Hollywood classic" and suggested there was more than a touch of "the rugged American frontiersman of myth" in Mr. Heston's Moses.

Just before lunch, during a meeting with his editor at Rodale, he spoke in an animated voice and expansive style, saying that he had a biblical, grandiloquent notion for the cover of his save-the-oceans book, scheduled for publication in April 2011.

The result was the orchestral Nights In White Satin, followed by a newly grandiloquent sound.

Mr Fischer's writing style is somewhat inconsistent; a rather grandiloquent introduction sits oddly with the rest of the book, and the flow of his prose is occasionally interrupted by ugly, donnish jargon.