| More important than her posture of self-martyring altruism was the vagueness of her masochistic grandiosity. |
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| This is music that has a megalomaniac quality, that creates a portentous grandiosity without much in the way of inner self-reflexivity. |
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| The matzah also stands in contrast to chametz which symbolizes false pride, absorption in our individual egos, and grandiosity. |
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| His rhetoric is larded with mythic grandiosity that amuses the jaded Western ear. |
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| These are worthy elements of foreign policy but also modest ones compared to regime change, nation-building, and other grandiosity. |
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| The grandiosity of its concept encouraged several rulers to continue adding to the structure and adding further stages. |
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| He admires Pompadour's magisterial self-invention, but deplores her grandiosity, womanish myopia, and bulimic shopping. |
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| In narcissism, an inflated grandiosity is repeatedly punctured by an unbending reality. |
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| A world of grandiosity, refinement and luxury, mythical universes that are the inspiration of legends. |
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| The grandiosity of these topographic features, which served as an impregnable refuge for nineteenth century bandits, leaves no person unaffected. |
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| Although he's among the most successful and best-regarded action-figure sculptors in the world, Kiwus isn't given to flights of grandiosity about his work. |
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| On occasion Wolf approaches a Wagnerian grandiosity of utterance, stretching the Lied to its breaking point. |
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| The perfect roundness of the Tahitian pearl embellishes the pendant by giving him the grandiosity of luxury. |
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| There is serenity and ecstasy, introspection and grandiosity in the last interpretation of the Goldberg Variations. |
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| The success, if it is painted on the life of a person who has not gone through a struggle, there is an attitude of grandiosity and superiority that taints success. |
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| In their glory days, drive-ins expressed a particular, wacky strain of American imagination, their grandiosity and gadgetry revealing a culture captivated by technology. |
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| This recording is not reaching for grandiosity or gimmicky newness. |
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| Although Korra looks at PTSD and assault with supernatural grandiosity, fans were quick to pick up on it in some forums. |
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| There is a fineness of line in combination with a splashy, fumy grandiosity. |
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| The essay itself seems an artifact of a dying tradition, and not just in its grandiosity. |
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| But his remarkable combination of grandiosity, self-delusion, and brazen, utter, shameless chutzpah keeps him coming back. |
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| Newt Gingrich had similar personnel problems, and his grandiosity makes her look humble. |
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| That is where the throne speech attains the peak of its grandiosity. |
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| A richly layered production on every level, the costumes, sets and overall art direction burst at the seams with a grandiosity that so perfectly reflects Verdi's fine masterwork. |
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| And though he expressed some concerns about cost overruns in the mountain events, there is no doubt that a certain amount of exorbitance and grandiosity have been part of his plan from the beginning. |
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| Her work combines seriousness and simplicity of form in a determined eschewal of grandiosity. |
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| The first part in F major begins with a well chosen sound of the trumpet, after which the entire orchestra joins in, signifying and underscoring an atmosphere of calm grandiosity. |
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| In it he contrasts stormy and unsettled sections with passages of more rhapsodic nature to portray the grandiosity of his native British Columbia. |
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| Though sometimes inclined to indulge in grandiosity when writing for a full symphony orchestra, he was adept in using smaller forces to the maximum effect. |
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