But Google has much grander aims for the Assistant.
Ever stern in the paintings, Hortsense appears warmer in several preparatory sketches, suggesting that her husband had much grander goals for his art than physical verisimilitude or spiritual authenticity.
When Chris Woodhead left there in 1976, it must have seemed to him like a forgettable staging post on his much grander career, for the chief inspector of schools has left so many things behind: his teaching career, his liberal opinions, his wife - all have been shed, as his ambition propelled him upwards.
But they have something much grander planned for the next version of iBowl, which originally launched in October.
With the lock currently broken and stuck shut, the only vessels inside the quay are the HM Frigate Unicorn, the world's sixth oldest ship, now converted into a museum, and another historical curio in the North Carr, Scotland's last lightship - but Mr Watt has much grander plans for the area.
Now with 5 million users and a $3.8 billion valuation, the CEO has a much grander vision for Slack: to be an office worker's "always-on chief of staff". Speaking at the Forbes CIO Summit in Half Moon Bay, California to a gathering of chief information officers and IT executives, Butterfield said that such a virtual assistant represents a "holy grail" for Slack's evolution.
However, he had much grander plans for both Brasenose and Oxford – ostensibly to put Brasenose at the centre of a new "forum" for the University – that were not completed, despite some considerably time and money spent on them.
But today these students and their increasingly preprofessional programs have much grander ambitions, aiming for a published novel or a Hollywood contract.
Other boycotters include the main claimants to the Russian throne, Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and her 17-year-old son, Georgy, who will spend the day at the patriarch's much grander remembrance service for the imperial family near Moscow.
He has something much grander in mind for Henry and his son, and he teases Henry, torments him, hinting at mechanical wonders of an order the Englishman has not the wit to imagine.
