But it raised the possibility of grander, more profound ones.
Many would-be apprentices are crowded out by graduates of grander schools.
This notion has comforted the nation's dinner parties through years of grander failures.
Three veteran music journalists complete the list with books of grander ambition.
Mythical lands like Cockaigne, vulgar versions of grander imaginings, occur in many cultures.
Allowing for enormous differences of talent and seriousness, this is also the expectation of grander, more visionary investigators.
It shouldn't make President Obama feel bad, either — even though Giuliani, on Wednesday night, managed to conflate love for himself with all kinds of grander emotions.
Mr. Glass, thinking on a large scale, elicited Mr. Mortier's promise of grander performing forces than Mr. Glass had ever used before, even in his operas.
But in the mid-19th century the two Americans republics and the French Republic began to fight more bitter and more horrible wars, in the name of grander ideals.
What's more, if Mr Roos can run a big law firm, he can probably get the huge embassy staff to manage US-Japan relations more effectively than did many a former ambassador of grander standing.
For some people old documents, however historical, are little more than humdrum records, created to be filed for reference and cited when necessary, the documentary backdrop of grander happenings, with signatures that do no more than guarantee their authenticity.
