Sentence examples for grandiose expression from inspiring English sources

The automaton-like cycle repeats itself for quite a long time, until it doesn't — until the "grandiose expression of consumption that coke inspires: cars, jewelry, furs, trips, houses, presents and messengers" sinks Phillips financially, and the "frenzy of overconsumption" becomes more toil than fun.

He recently told the Washington Post that he did not think human rights should be the defining issue in international relations, and he also shares his father's aversion to grandiose expressions of American exceptionalism.

For years critics have railed against these cultural complexes as pointlessly grandiose expressions of vanity — a poisonous brew of architectural egotism and excessive wealth that was destroying America's urban centers.

This band have never lost their passion for creating grandiose expressions of mortal dismay, however, and from its knowingly melodramatic title to the sprawling majesty of its sound, new album Feel The Misery is a triumphant statement of ongoing vitality from this veteran band.

Not one grandiose formal gesture or expression of feeling strikes me as sincere in this wobbling, honey-drenched pudding of Eurokitsch, starring Michael Caine as a retired composer contemplating existence and death and nubile young women at a Swiss mountain spa for the inordinately wealthy and contemplative.

Alexander Yakubov, a Bukharian real estate agent in Forest Hills, said his decision to partially demolish an old house in Forest Hills to make way for a larger one had nothing to do with grandiose notions of spiritual expression and everything to do with the economy of home ownership.

Your extra-big Christmas tree is simply an expression of your grandiose nature.

For grandiose narcissism, my usual formula is CPR.

Look for a grandiose self perception.

The ancient human-horse bond is the heart of "Odysseo"; its high-tech, grandiose bells and whistles seem to be the creators' expression of reverence for the magnificent stars in their care.

"Newt's a friend, I love him," Mr. Santorum said at the debate here with a pained expression even as he savaged him as having "grandiose" ideas, "incoherent thoughts" and "no discipline".