Sentence examples for grandiloquent statement from inspiring English sources

"Whether the people want to accept it or not, we might be the best band in the last long time!" This is a typical Flowers claim, and is the kind of grandiloquent statement that generally makes the listener's hackles – or bile – rise.

The listings actually feature the Central Park Casino, the depicted phone number (Rhinelander 4-3034) and "Eddy Duchin's ha-cha orchestra," as well as the blurb, phrased as in the movie, for Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing"—and also the grandiloquent statement of purpose (which dropped off the page several weeks later), "A Conscientious Calendar of Events Worth While".

Through dozens of 65ft-high tropical trunks rising up to a forest-like canopy through which the sun's rays pour and dance across the walls, the Sagrada's interior creates a heavenly vision of the New Jerusalem – not a ponderous, grandiloquent, statement of a powerful institution, but a glimpse of God, something free and light and generous and intensely beautiful, a space fit for soaring spirits.

The insular "Need You to Fall" opens with aggressive acoustic guitar — "Bolton Comes Emo!" — and "You Comfort Me" is stunningly controlled, full of grandiloquent statements of loyalty: "When life makes me a prisoner, it's your love that sets me free".

In spite of the Military Council's grandiloquent statements about justice and democracy the way the law and the security forces have treated the presidential candidates has varied according to their relationship with the Military Council, which negates the principle of equal opportunities and makes the elections undemocratic.

Once the camera lights went on, he talked and talked and talked, mixing sharp political insights with controversial statements, grandiloquent hot air, and even — this being a somewhat chastened world-historic figure — occasional self-criticisms.

When the discussion was over, Gingrich was grandiloquent on the subject of his own grandiloquence.

Very grandiloquent.

It is a grandiloquent gesture.

He is grave, not grandiloquent.

Friedman treats that as grandiloquent delusion.