Sentence examples for grandeur around from inspiring English sources

From here on, the dumb-ass grandeur around which superheroic plots revolve can no longer be taken on trust.

Their songs are craggy, pensive chronicles of love and loss; GLEN HANSARD, the band's singer and main songwriter, sounds more desolate than heroic as songs build a bleak grandeur around him.

It is only when gliding along midstream that you can fully appreciate the grandeur around you.

Dot-com frenzy and cultural activity of all kinds continue to bloom and, as always, late spring and summer remain a time when the natural grandeur in and around Seattle is on particularly glorious display.

Smith wandered around, inhaling the grandeur.

I try to imagine what it must have been like to see glaciers looming 19 or 20 stories above, as the guide puts it, from a small, fragile craft, rather than from our three-story-high cruiser, and then I realize how strange it is that we resort to the architectural measurements of skyscrapers to wrap our minds around such grandeur.

There is grandeur and beauty all around us, and at times, often just for a moment, it comes rushing in.

There's a grandeur to the architecture centring around a third movement that plays out like a noble collective confessional.

Her grandeur didn't erect walls around her; it widened her vistas, increased her curiosity, enabled her adventures, overcame narrow boundaries.

The work has all the aural brilliance of a concerto for orchestra and gives an impression of grandeur despite its short duration – around eight minutes.

The whirlpool area suggests grandeur with modified classical columns around a domelike ceiling, floor mosaics in a vaguely Roman pattern and a bubbling pool roomy enough for a dozen Olympians.