Presidents and prime ministers in the West have made grandiloquent speeches about making poverty history for fifty years. |
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. |
His grandiloquent claim that there are five branches of the fine arts, and that the greatest of these is confectionery, is famous. |
To the delight of nineteenth-century readers, phrasings were predictably grandiloquent. |
Some of the politicians who give grandiloquent speeches on Europe's future seem to know history only as far back as Hitler, Stalin and the Cold War. |
But in no time one realizes that the claim is not grandiloquent, but humble. |