Sentence examples for less grandeur from inspiring English sources

On the other hand, Troy VIIa – a city with much less grandeur than the Troy described by Homer – was almost certainly destroyed by a major battle, as archaeologists have found arrowheads in the remains of the citadel.

Jazz-like strategy is more down-to earth and flexible, has less grandeur and occurs much more in the moment rather than based on long preparation.

As construction went by, funding for stations were reduced, resulting in less grandeur further north.

"Yeezus" is a fiercely edited, assaultive, and noisy work, concerned less with grandeur than with intensity.

It would mean more poor-country modesty and less superpower grandeur.

As Arthur Hobhouse wrote in his 1947 legislative proposals: "There is merit in variety, and with the wide diversity of landscape which is available, it would be wrong to confine [your] selection of national parks to the more rugged areas of mountain and moorland, and to exclude other districts which, though of less outstanding grandeur and wildness, have their own distinctive beauty".

Another text quotes Nebuchadnezzar as declaring that Nabu's tower should reach the skies and be no less in grandeur than that of Babel, which was dedicated to the god Marduk.

There is, none the less, a thorny grandeur about Lawrence the writer.

Watching "E.T" now, in an era dominated by cold, loud special-effects-laden extravaganzas, one is struck less by its lavish grandeur than by its intimacy and precision.

That leaves this as a slightly redundant exercise in biopic box-ticking and corner-cutting, puffed up with awards-friendly grandeur and less interested in the political questions than the personal heart-strings.

The performance of Schumann's Third Symphony was strong on energy, exuberance and bucolic humour, less so on majestic grandeur - which it really needs as well, particularly in its slow movement, which was slightly hectored here.