Sentence examples for much grandeur from inspiring English sources

The question was: How much grandeur could we afford?

Like much grandeur of the antebellum South, both the estate and the Barnsley fortunes suffered during the Civil War and after.

The effect is slightly underwhelming, but when the deep-pocketed patron is not a wealthy individual but a series of public bodies that don't want to frighten people with too much grandeur, that is probably deliberate.The design, like much of the money paying for it, is continental European.

Let there be ever so great plenty of good things, ever so much grandeur, ever so much elegance, ever so much desire that every body should be easy; in the nature of things it cannot be: there must always be some degree of care and anxiety.

In the past, he has criticized de Blasio for giving his office too much grandeur, arguing that while his statements on income inequality may sound nice, the city's mayor doesn't really have the power to change macroeconomic policies in New York City.

I don't want to credit Max Payne with much grandeur or artistic credibility, because it is after all a game where you can use hand grenades to blow up drug addicts, or shoot a man to death while he's got his pants around his ankles.

U2 plays arenas with a garage-band informality, proffering vulnerability as much as grandeur.

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.

Much of the grandeur is left out.

Much of the grandeur of its lobbies and other public spaces recalls high-class motel decor.

It's not a good name for a way of thinking about aesthetics, but much of the grandeur of the Romantic imagination was dismantled by the 20th century.