Sentence examples for was much grander from inspiring English sources

You can call such pols them overly ambitious, but I wish their ambition was much grander.

(She has admitted to giving journalists the impression that her background was much grander — "gilded youth, travels, cosmopolitanism, etc").

His mother was much grander, a descendant of the martyred Sir Thomas More, and he was raised a Roman Catholic at a time of fervent post-Reformation Protestantism.

The setting was much grander for Nishikori, who was bidding to become the youngest man to advance to the fourth round at the Open since Marat Safin in 1998.

My questions about his life seemed to afford him an opportunity to imagine one that was much grander than reality — or maybe, alternately, Nafeh was lucid to the end and, knowing that his words were limited, used those remaining to embellish what was finally a short and unexceptional past.

The scale of his imagination was much grander than the Founders' vision of a government powerful enough to protect individuals from the depredations of others but strictly limited and hedged by checks and balances to keep it from becoming an instrument of oppression, as history shows most governments have been.

Mr. Wolf's ambitions, naturally, are much grander.

The Corridoio Vasariano is much grander and more spacious than the dark passageway I had imagined.

At Euro Disney, the castle is much grander than its predecessors, and many rides are improved by more advanced technology.

It's just an hour and a half later than normal tea, but they feel it's much grander, and it isn't tea".

Someone should point out, however, that the house that now costs $1 million may not be much grander than the house that $700,000 bought back then.