Sentence examples for supposed grandeur from inspiring English sources

Young people from agricultural regions and small towns were eager to experience the supposed grandeur and sought work to support themselves.

As Nobel-winning economist Joe Stiglitz explains, "The failure of our financial system to do what it is supposed to do matches in destructive grandeur the macro-economic failures of the Great Depression".

He probably had Snoke filling him with ideas of grandeur throughout his youth... ...like an evil Morgana/Morgan le Fay (Snoke was even supposed to be a woman at one point).

How all of that is supposed to fit together is exercising many of the sharpest minds in Brussels just now.The constitution's grandeur alarmed voters sufficiently that in 2005 it was killed off by referendums in France and the Netherlands.

Callicles' somewhat inchoate ideal, the superior man, is imagined as having the arrogant grandeur of the larger-than-life Homeric heroes; but what this new breed of hero is supposed to fight for and be rewarded by remains cloudy to his imagination.

Supposed radicals.

Anyway, delusions of grandeur aside, I suppose I'd better explain what this is all about.

There is no suggestion that Bush wants to go in for humanitarian reasons and it is hard to know what Blair's motives are, I suppose it's just delusions of grandeur, strutting about on the world stage.

"I suppose I feel about it in this way because I have a delusion of grandeur.

I suppose that every family has its own habitual toast, a phrase that as all rituals do—sacralizes the ordinary and raises it to a mythic grandeur.

— I suppose.