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By the second debate, staged by the BBC in the Edwardian grandeur of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and screened live across the UK and overseas, Salmond was in sharper form and better briefed, largely thanks to Sturgeon.
Certainly the Excelsior Vittoria did not let us down in that department, recapturing as it does some sense of past grandeur when celebrities such as Caruso were regular patrons.
Eschewing the grandeur and trappings of his predecessors, he arrives for meetings with heads of state in a blue Ford Focus; he wears old shoes; he astonishes members of the global public who have written to him by picking up the phone and calling them himself.
On a day of Labour unease about the scale, cost and grandeur of her funeral, as well as fears it was being exploited for contemporary Tory political gain, Chartres's subtle defence of her ideology, as well as its focus on her as an individual, drew wide-ranging praise from Tory MPs.
He talks about restoring some of the "grandeur " and "dignity" of riding a London bus, qualities that "had evaporated in the name of pragmatism".
With harrowing, unrepentant exactitude it is a year to the weekend that the garish and tearaway business of motor racing was grotesquely freeze-framed into an eerie Pompeian stillness the moment its champion of cold-eyed invincibility and single-minded grandeur Ayrton Senna died in a 190mph crash in the name of sport.
But, while the physical presentation was flawless, I felt a strange disproportion between the ceremonial grandeur of the occasion and the contentious politics of Thatcher herself.
"On the whole" said the novelist, "I came away from London with a profound admiration of its wealth, grandeur , and immensity.
Pink Floyd, presumed lost in action following the death of Richard Wright in 2008, will re-emerge with their cosmic grandeur ; Adele – saviour of the music industry with her last album – will excite both the record-buying public and the executives, if she can get her album out before Christmas.
Diagnosed with a number of mental health problems, he was a relentless attention seeker with delusions of grandeur and a con man, who elevated his personal grievances with the heavenly glow of Islamic jihadism.
It is an undeniably beautiful part of the world; a seductive combination of sea, lemon groves, vineyards and towns imbued with the faded grandeur of a gracefully ageing ballerina.
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"Grandeur" primarily functions as a noun. As supported by Ludwig, it denotes the state of being grand or splendid; magnificence, nobility, or greatness. For example, "the Edwardian grandeur of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum" or "Pink Floyd, presumed lost in action following the death of Richard Wright in 2008, will re-emerge with their cosmic grandeur ."
Expression frequency: Very common
