Sentence examples for complex grandeur from inspiring English sources

Closer to home, in the deep American grain, two major biographers, Robert A. Caro ("The Passage of Power") and David Nasaw ("The Patriarch"), uncover the complex grandeur in a pair of 20th-century giants whose influence on our politics remains central to current debates.

While no one would deny that his skills deepened as the cycle progressed — the promising young composer of the charming, pastoral Opus 1 quartets is not the Olympian who brought the Opus 77 pieces to complex grandeur — it is fascinating to hear him going through the process.

Then again, perhaps you are one of the lucky ones, someone destined to age with a complex grandeur, like Georgia O'Keeffe; how will you ever know if you run for the scalpel the minute you spot a crow's-foot around your eyes or a marionette line above your lips?

In another e-mail to Syngenta, he acknowledged that it might appear that he was suffering from a "Napoleon complex" or "delusions of grandeur".

Mr. Szeto's arrangement for string quartet, wind quintet, trumpet and trombone sustained Janacek's complex balance of anxiety and fleeting grandeur.

"She knows there's no success like failure/And that failure's no success at all", he moaned at another.H.L. Mencken had a grumpy verdict on this attitude to success and failure: for him, the typical American was "vexed, at one and the same time, by delusions of grandeur and an inferiority complex".

Depardieu's performance doesn't achieve tragic grandeur but it is far more complex and moving than seemed remotely possible in the orgy scenes that open the movie.

It's a piece that's celebrated for its gracefulness and its lyricism; Schiff and Fischer found its expansive, expressive grandeur while also highlighting its immensely complex sense of harmony.

Organized labor loved him for his edifice complex; critics were less kind toward the folie de grandeur of Albany's South Mall and the World Trade Center's twin towers, mockingly christened Nelson and David (after Rockefeller's brother).

Where scientific explanations are inevitably complex, fictional accounts tend to trade detail for sweeping grandeur, focusing less on the specifics in favour of carving out a distinct origin for humankind.  .

Literature in old Javanese (kawi) flourished during this period, and a number of large temple complexes were constructed, none of which, however, approached the grandeur of Borobudur or Prambanan.