Just as the Skibbereen Eagle grandly warned Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914 that it had its eye on him, so film reviewers feel moved to bellow their disapproval at the Academy.
Dr Orantes sits back in his chair, loosens his tie, takes a sip of cappuccino and announces grandly: "There are three factors: prohibited pesticides, combinations of pesticides, and no protection from pesticides".
A wide stone spiral staircase leads to the simply but grandly decorated high-ceilinged rooms, where old family furniture, vast stone fireplaces and beds with richly textured canopies, finely stitched by your talented hostess, preserve the medieval flavour; the bathrooms (also generously proportioned) are state of the art.
His most well-known series to date is the grandly titled Emissaries of an Iconic Religion, painterly portraits of the chief priests and diviners of the traditional Yorùbá religion, which was shown as part of a group show, Contested Terrains, at Tate Modern last year.
EARLIER this year, Bob Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, grandly declared that "2009 saw the end of what was known as the third world"—that is, the end of a distinct, separate section of humanity that is poor, aid-dependent and does not matter very much.
Mr Miliband and his gurus talk grandly about a 20-year project to remake British capitalism.Until now Labour has mostly resisted demands for detailed policies and fiscal plans.
He announced plans to form two new grandly named institutions: a European Systemic Risk Council, which is supposed to provide early warning of possible risks, and a European System of Financial Supervisors, which would be a super-committee of regulators from across the European Union.The goals of the two new institutions are admirable.
With that in mind, David Morris, one of Mr Livingstone's advisers, announced rather grandly that "the end of the Routemaster marks the end of transport apartheid".
Knowing that it is better to head off international crises than to clean up after them, the Clinton administration promised to detect potential wars early on; and United Nations people wished grandly for a UN army that would intervene at the first whiff of trouble.
When Mr Clegg speaks grandly of his party having brought a new pluralist possibility to British politics, he has a point.
Filling out the cast are a beautiful young freed slave who can pass for white, two gonzo rebel soldiers who, with the tide of the war turned, decide to pass for Union troops, and an emotionally cold but clinically brilliant Union surgeon, among a host of other walk-ons, both real and imagined.Still, the novel never feels overpopulated, but grandly panoramic.
