Sentence examples for grandiose effect from inspiring English sources

Celibidache (pronounced cheh-lee-bee-DAH-keh), played the theater of self-effacement to grandiose effect.

It was not simply an attempt at grandiose effect, though the composer's use of such forces earned the work the subtitle "Symphony of a Thousand" from his press agent (a name still applied to the symphony).

In my work with the National Eating Disorders Association, Project Heal SoCal and Peaceful Hearts Foundation and from my own history of recovering from a seventeen year eating disorder, child physical and sexual abuse, I understand the grandiose effect AB 2539 will have.

Nevertheless, Pabst was a remarkable director, capable of creating films in which atmosphere is as much created by small detail as by more grandiose effects.

They are, however, immense in scale and grandiose in effect.

They are by turns resigned, anguished and noble, and the film is a curiously tender, slow-moving and meditative treatment of a subject that is more often an occasion for hysteria and grandiose special effects.

Nash was heavily criticised in his day and after for preferring grandiose scenic effects over actual build quality, with cheap brick houses under the painted cream stucco, but now his developments are kept up to a sparkle by their astonishingly wealthy occupiers.

Mahajan has a cinematic attunement to the spectacle of disaster, and he often focusses on the minor rather than the grandiose, to eerie effect.

Additional mediation analyses revealed that the effects of both narcissism subtypes on jealousy induction were reduced upon controlling for Machiavellianism, and the effects of grandiose (vulnerable) narcissism on jealousy induction were accentuated (suppressed) upon controlling for trait self-esteem.

And I could not help be intrigued to hear the origins, at first hand, of that grandiose, rich sound, the layered effects, multiple delays, switched pickup combinations and live overdubbing that complemented so well the famous flamboyance of Freddie Mercury.

The suicidally depressed can also exhibit romanticized and grandiose beliefs about the likely effects of their deaths (delusions of martyrdom, revenge, etc).