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is grandiloquent

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Given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid

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But while the musical setting is grandiloquent, Cooke's tale is down-to-earth.

Now he appears to have tilted away from moderation: the nationalisation decree came hours after he returned from Havana, where he signed a "people's trade agreement" with Messrs Castro and Chávez.The tone of the nationalisation decree is grandiloquent.

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

Silent film scores were grandiloquent, meant to heighten what we saw on screen.

(Jackson did not bring a movie camera, did he?) Also in evidence are grandiloquent lines of voice-over in the conditional tense that signify little, as when Jackson's drive is called "an adventure that would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another".

If you think that it's the job of rock stars to be grandiloquent, complex, controversial and occasionally ridiculous figures, so remote from everyday life that they seem almost otherworldly, then it's hard to think of anyone currently doing a better job.

Stephen Holden from The New York Times wrote that the orchestration of the song was "grandiloquent", while describing Madonna's delivery of the lines as an "angry triumph".

The name of your steed should be grandiloquent, noble and sonorous, as befits the creature whose destiny it is to endure the spurs of the greatest knight of history.

He is pompous, grandiloquent, asking to be cut down to size.

It is a grandiloquent gesture.

The atmosphere, warmed by wine and fellowship, is expansive, grandiloquent.

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