| Tennyson's claim that his poem is the cry of the whole human race may be exaggerated, but undoubtedly one of its strengths is to evoke a particular, personal loss in all its intensity without, somehow, aggrandising that loss. |
| In his oil sketches, you can see how Rubens danced to the not-so-delicate tunes of his ecclesiastical paylords, aggrandising a donor here, taking an unloved saint down a peg or two. |
| It is a foolish question, for it assumes that these writers are somehow aggrandising themselves. |
| Since he's such a self-regarding and aggrandising fool, we look on and laugh. |
| That sounds a lot, until you reflect that using the same aggrandising tactic, the Government will spend nearly £4.2 trillion on welfare over the same period. |
| It is time to look into this from a safety angle and stop aggrandising the ownership of these gadgets until you can cover consumers' fears about their safety. |
