Definition of Grandiose

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Grandiose

Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.

Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.

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Grandiose Quotations

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.
Sigmund Freud

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren Kierkegaard

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski

I had never done anything with blue screen before, or prosthetics, or anything like that. Lord of the Rings was like stepping into a videogame for me. It was another world completely. But, to be honest, I basically did it so that I could have the ears. I thought they would really work with my bare head.Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.
Cate Blanchett

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
C. L. R. James

It never occurred to me that we would have as grandiose a program as the Marshall Plan, but I felt that we had to do something to save Europe from economic disaster which would encourage the Communist takeover.
W. Averell Harriman

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
Lukas Foss

My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly.
Liz Phair

I tried to instill a different motivation, to give them the security and the conviction that they were doing something good, something necessary, something useful - if you want to use a grandiose expression, that they were doing something for peace.
Markus Wolf

Grandiose Translations

grandiose in Dutch is groots, grandioos, overweldigend
grandiose in French is grandiose
grandiose in Spanish is grandioso

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