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What does grandiloquent mean?

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Adjective
  1. (of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid
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In the same grandiloquent tradition as Italian cinema, imagery is paramount in setting the mood and projecting the hidden psychology of the characters.
He duplicates the editors' preface in a rather grandiloquent manner.
You have to understand that he had a habit of making grandiloquent statements.
I can use the tools every other writer uses, the grandiloquent metaphors, the descriptions, but I don't think I'd be doing the reader any favors.
Presidents and prime ministers in the West have made grandiloquent speeches about making poverty history for fifty years.
His grandiloquent claim that there are five branches of the fine arts, and that the greatest of these is confectionery, is famous.

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