Sentence examples for rather grandiose from inspiring English sources

The rather grandiose statement is often followed by a certain fuzziness about the details.

"They combine a rather grandiose vision of themselves with an ability to live on scraps rather than compromise their principles.

Pavel Kolesnikov was the soloist in the latter, wonderfully assured in his virtuosity, yet teasing out the emotional complexities beneath the work's rather grandiose surface.

For her utopian project this earnest and rather grandiose conceptualist created a perfume by mixing scents of plants from 230 different countries.

But it is to say that his short fictions are very modest in scope – despite the rather grandiose allusions he makes in an afterword, regarding their "inter-textuality".

Had this rather grandiose thought occurred to him as he stood on Turnberry's 18th tee on that fateful Sunday this July it might have offered some comfort.

The camera language will be intimate, extremely intimate, rather than grandiose.

Trade and prosperity would be the watchword, rather than grandiose schemes to remake the world.

He is, rather, a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison.

Such buildings were meant to be elegant and practical rather than grandiose, and this remains their charm.

In conversation these quotations come off as reflective rather than grandiose -- evidence that he trolls good distances from "Who Moved My Cheese?" for business insights.