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Meanings of grandiosity in English
High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.
Synonyms
Examples for "rhetoric"
Examples for "rhetoric"
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Therefore, official US rhetoric on Syrian citizens defending themselves must change today.
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His new rhetoric, however, has so far failed to regain voters' enthusiasm.
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Anacrites is a good speaker; it was a good exercise in rhetoric.
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Some Democrats expressed doubt that the rhetoric would result in meaningful change.
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President Trump's rhetoric suggested a major military strike against the Assad regime.
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To have found expression for it, without grandiloquence, is no commonplace achievement.
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But your grandiloquence, and your conduct in swinging the beetle-howexcessively odd!
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It was a long speech, but this was clearly the time for grandiloquence.
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Possibly Miss Corson was covering embarrassment with the jaunty grandiloquence that she displayed.
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It was mostly put on, of course, this false grandiloquence of the prig.
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However, Johnson's attempt to appease him was a curious specimen of his magniloquence.
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Nevertheless, the Sultan detected a shade of hesitation in spite of the magniloquence of this refusal.
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You speak of her with the magniloquence of a poet and the feeling of a troubadour.
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I trust his magniloquence will be rewarded with a loud fanfaronade as he leaves The Irish Times.
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Into what magniloquence does vanity betray us!
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He was well-clothed, but with a shade too much ornateness.
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I remembered being moved by the music, and astounded by the ornateness of the theater.
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Apologists for the building say that the profuse ornateness rightly suggests the richness of California's horticulture.
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His English was a marvel of ignorant ornateness, like his vest and his watch-chain and rings.
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Naivete is to be desired rather than ornateness.
Usage of grandiosity in English
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This triumphant concrete structure celebrates the birth of Afrikaans in abstract grandiosity.
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I'm very confident in that because of the grandiosity of the decision.
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He casts them as the audience in the theatre of his inflated grandiosity.
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Within the early psychosis group, both violent and non-violent traumas predicted elevated grandiosity.
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Paranoia, grandiosity and hallucinations aren't confined to those with serious mental health problems.
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Thomson grows tumid wherever he assays the grandiosity of his model.
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His twisted, tortured phrases mock the vague grandiosity of his visions.
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But Billy Joel also has a grandiosity that Irving Berlin never got near.
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The narcissist's grandiosity and sense of entitlement are equally incommensurate with his achievements.
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He would be checked by the grandiosity of somebody else's ambitions.
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So, to Kohut, grandiosity and idealisation are positive childhood development mechanisms.
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It was captivating for me to hear Led Zeppelin's 'Kashmir' with all its grandiosity.
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To bridge the grandiosity gap, the malignant (pathological) narcissist resorts to shortcuts.
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It appealed, of course, to his own vanity and grandiosity.
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It teeters on the brink of grandiosity, yet never apologises or loses its nerve.
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The grandiosity, to use a mild phrase, of such a measure needs no comment.
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Grandiosity through the time