Grandiloquence

"Thus, to dismiss writer-director Darren Aronofsky's hyper-ambitious third feature The Fountain - a heady fusion of science fiction, metaphysics and a melodramatic quest for immortality both romantic and spiritual - for simply believing in its own sentimental grandiloquence is to deny one of the most exquisite and strangely moving trips to the multiplex this year." ❋ Unknown (2006)

It's the economy, stupid, which reflects the government close association with the "grandiloquence" of Britain's economic performance in the past few years. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, Evie's mother sounds a little too much like her daughter, and this lack of distinctiveness can be levelled at most of the voices: they share a slightly fusty grandiloquence at times redolent of a 19th-century novel. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Her books capture the peculiar grandiloquence of children's speech; the ornate sentences, stippled with adverbs like raisins in a cake. ❋ Sarah Crown (2010)

But in the course of the debate, several of them managed to express, amidst a sea of bubbling and pompous grandiloquence, their lack of knowledge on various subjects, especially on the one they repeatedly stated is the most important job of the next Commander In Chief--National Security. ❋ Gabriel Lerner (2011)

Or consider the scene in which the author and his wife fall for that lovely house with the big mortgage: "We picked up one corner of the rug and gasped with pleasure at the grandiloquence of the hardwood floors." ❋ Eric Felten (2011)

The source of Mr. Fortuna's power in the film resides in his lithe gait and the sly air of grandiloquence with which Cesar hunts down his man. ❋ Steve Dollar (2011)

It's no longer the dark arts of grandiloquence that obscure our politicians' thinking. ❋ P.J. O'Rourke (2011)

The article is thus meaningless grandiloquence when it comes to the courts. ❋ Iris Erlingsdottir (2011)

Enter Kekhman, then 39, a multi-millionaire fruit importer who described himself , with Freudian grandiloquence, as "the Emperor of the Banana". ❋ Unknown (2012)

In submitting his reports of the Churubusco and Chapultepec battles to Scott, he inflated his own role with elaborate grandiloquence while diminishing his colleagues. ❋ Robert W. Merry (2009)

And, in a live setting, Coheed and Cambria's grandiloquence is endearing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have attended public events where black Zimbabweans deliver speeches with an ornate eloquence, or sometimes grandiloquence, that seems more Victorian literary salon than oppressive African dictatorship. ❋ David Smith In Harare (2010)

I am no John Wilkes Booth, full of grandiloquence, theatrical self-dramatization, narcissism, and insanity. ❋ Stephen Hunter (2010)

Vigorous and theatrical, alternating between corrosive sarcasm and heaven-shaking grandiloquence, the seventy-year-old Darrow deployed all his courtroom skills. ❋ DANIEL OKRENT (2010)

He became more than usually grandiloquent as if to [make up for] the years of [silence] with words of [gold]. ❋ JRob (2006)

the [american psycho] feigned [intelligence] by being grandiloquent ❋ Bond.jane Bond. (2003)

Her big features matched its [grandiloquence] and [spoke] volumes from a [distance] ❋ (2022)