Sentence examples for grander thoughts from inspiring English sources

Two years ago Francine Prose showed just what a mug's game it was in an essay in Harper's Magazine in which she asked, in essence, why is it perceived that in serious fiction male writers have grander thoughts and themes and more muscular and crisp styles?

They sought to test their grand thoughts against the hard facts of the real world.

Inevitably, grand thoughts about one's place in the universe give way to lesser puzzles.

Is it just a black hole?" These were grand words, grand thoughts, and I found myself looking at Temple with a heightened sense of her mental spaciousness, her courage.

He was a figure of the 18th-century Enlightenment, filled with grand thoughts and amateur enthusiasms, but he was also a mid-20th-century professional and policy expert, ensconced in some of his epoch's most bitter conflicts.

CHIASSON: As to plot: there is that moment at the end where he says something like "Plot developments — how badly we need you!" I started thinking rather grand thoughts about plot and its absence in this book.

They are not grand thoughts and lofty concepts.

There was no grand thought or theme to unify the Venice Baroque Orchestra's program at Zankel Hall on Wednesday evening, unless it was a sheer delight in virtuosity.

At least, that's what you begin to think as, in grand Thought For The Day tradition, he quotes Jesus to justify his information revolution, WikiLeaks portrayed as a kind of Niagara Falls of fact, gushing down towards the common man against the traditionally upward flow of knowledge.

Start with a grand, thought-provoking statement.

Altitude sickness promotes grand, woozy thoughts, and this is mine.