Sentence examples for grandiose assertion from inspiring English sources

But there is a significance to this comically grandiose assertion of identity that the casual visitor might miss.

The most grandiose assertion is a claim that Ergenekon planned to "manufacture chemical and biological weapons and then, with the high revenue it earned from selling them, to finance and control every terrorist organization not just in Turkey but in the entire world".

Its lyrical assertions, grandiose abstractions and pregnant fragments may sound profound in French, but they seem banal in Howard Curtis's English translation.

The Ideals of Global Sport investigates these grandiose claims, peeling away the hype to reveal the reality: that shockingly little evidence underpins these endlessly repeated assertions.

That's why the movie's grandiose title, its revolutionary revision of D. W. Griffith's monstrously racist 1915 drama, is justified: its subject is the assertion by enslaved blacks in America of their humanity, not by private acts of decency or social organization but by means of violence against their oppressors.

But grandiose hopes?

Oh, it's grandiose.

A grandiose claim, perhaps.

Grandiose mission statements abound.

The goal seemed grandiose.

Lives became grandiose.