Sentence examples for grandest scheme from inspiring English sources

When the Works Progress Administration built 11 city pools in the mid-1930's, all under the steely gaze of Robert Moses, the urban planner, it reserved its grandest scheme for the Astoria Pool in Queens: 330 feet long and 165 feet wide, a diving tank 16 feet deep, an Art Deco pavilion, and two mushroom-shaped fountains to support mammoth torches.

His grandest scheme by far: mining precious and rare earth metals on asteroids, where trillions of dollars are just waiting to be made.

Griffin's proposal was "the grandest scheme submitted, yet it had an appealing simplicity and clarity.

Many of his defining works were private residences for wealthy patrons and his grandest schemes were never built at all.

Yet in Brazil the grandest schemes can be brought low by a recalcitrant regulator, a rogue judge or an angry citizen.

It is the thirteenth commission in the Unilever Series, which has allowed such artists as Olafur Eliasson and Ai Weiwei to realize some of their grandest schemes in the museum's Turbine Hall.

As the Victorian Society publishes its list of the top 10 most endangered Victorian and Edwardian buildings, it might be sobering to look at a scheme that will destroy, according to Save Britain's Heritage, "the grandest parade of market buildings in Europe".

The grandest new technology is the cellphone.

She was grand in the grandest way".

Or as William Blake once put it: "The very grandest poetry is immoral, the grandest characters wicked".

The grandest kibitzer of them all.