What's the difference between extravagant and grandiloquent?

Extravagant


Definition:

  • (a.) Wandering beyond one's bounds; roving; hence, foreign.
  • (a.) Exceeding due bounds; wild; excessive; unrestrained; as, extravagant acts, wishes, praise, abuse.
  • (a.) Profuse in expenditure; prodigal; wasteful; as, an extravagant man.
  • (n.) One who is confined to no general rule.
  • (n.) Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Such extravagant claims will be familiar to the scheme's architect, Richard Rogers, whose designs for the office development beside St Paul's Cathedral in the 1980s were torpedoed when Charles implied in a public speech that the plans were more offensive than the rubble left by the Luftwaffe during the blitz.
  • (2) I want to pick them by the armful and fill the house with their extravagance and glamour.
  • (3) While his more eminent predecessors, Gerald Durrell and John Aspinall, established that displaying wild creatures may occasionally be compatible with respect for them, zoos around the world have also sanitised – with extravagant claims about conservation, breeding programmes and species reintroduction – the essentially unchanged business of showing caged animals for cash.
  • (4) There is the rigorously landscaped swimming pool complex designed by a young (now disbanded) practice called Paisajes Emergentes, and the extravagantly roofed sports arena designed by Mazzanti, again, and Felipe Mesa.
  • (5) Apparently the sea wall is a favourite base for extravagant jumps into the water, but not at low tide.
  • (6) The author contrasts the creative urbane Goethe with the unempathic, self-absorbed, and extravagant Goethe.
  • (7) After years of on-and-off e-dating, in which I've met 150-200 women, fallen in love with one and invented extravagant excuses to extricate myself from awkward encounters with countless others, you might think I'd be tired of it all.
  • (8) He also sometimes falls, as in his account of Frederick Valk’s Othello, into extravagant hyperbole.
  • (9) The Candy brothers, the property duo behind the scheme, like to claim that the address sits at a sort of super-rich intersection – turn one way, and you look down Sloane Street, Europe's most extravagant shopping street.
  • (10) It will be Australian consumers who’ll pay extra to make sure that Tony Abbott can deliver this paid parental leave scheme which not only do I think is extravagant, I can tell you most of his own members seem to think is extravagant.” Abbott has been forced to defend his scheme multiple times since announcing the policy in 2010 and responded to reports in February the Commission of Audit had found it too expensive.
  • (11) I like a big, extravagant frock, but I wanted to feel like me.
  • (12) Mrs Tsvangirai was widely respected in Zimbabwe as the antithesis of President Robert Mugabe's extravagant and free-spending wife, Grace, who showed little concern for the plight of the many hungry and poor in her country.
  • (13) The booming Bollywood music beckoned a stream of families, wearing ornate saris and sharp kurtas, fragrant plates of samosa chaat in hand, toward the stage, replete with an extravagant display of lights and visuals.
  • (14) There is a small, but significant, increase in frequency during hypercapnia in vagotomized, anesthetized animals, indicating involvement of an extravagal mechanism in the response.
  • (15) She told Murdoch's biographer , Michael Wolff, that Murdoch was worried about the extravagance of buying a new yacht.
  • (16) Fleming was intrigued by Engelhard's extravagant lifestyle and when he wrote Goldfinger , published in 1959, he based its eponymous villain on him.
  • (17) Antony and Cleopatra is in many ways a reflection of Jacobean court extravagance and decadence.
  • (18) It would honour the record of CND and scrap Trident missiles, submarines, aircraft carriers, manned fighters and the extravagant paraphernalia of the arms lobby.
  • (19) Up close, even the supposedly most extravagant new BBC properties are less lavish than you might think.
  • (20) The temporal rearrangements of the respiratory cycle seem to be due to the vagal effects, while the extravagal influences, probably the reflexes from the stretch receptors of intercostal muscles, are responsible for changes of the volume component in the relations characterizing the mechanism of cessation of inspiration.

Grandiloquent


Definition:

  • (a.) Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Accepting an award he said: "At the risk of sounding grandiloquent, I would like to thank you, the American industry.
  • (2) "There are no accordions without Tulle and no Tulle without accordions," they tell visitors, with a certain grandiloquence.
  • (3) It began with suitably grandiloquent flourish: “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind.
  • (4) He now writes symphonies, concertos, and sacred works of grandiloquent romanticism and religiosity.
  • (5) There is no evidence whatsoever that cutting tax credits will mean wages will rise Sustained wage rises need higher productivity, but, as the Economist puts it , “the French could take Friday off and still produce more than Britons do in a week.” Osborne spoke grandiloquently about the “march of the makers”, but this quarter’s weak GDP growth reveals construction has slumped by 2.2% and manufacturing by 0.3%.
  • (6) This grandiloquent psychiatrist-poet, a bear of a man with waves of white hair, has played the role of national martyr throughout the proceedings.
  • (7) They included Sir Peter Tapsell, now father of the Commons, whose grandiloquent style of speech prompted Hoggart to suggest that monks must be writing down his every word on vellum.
  • (8) In the fourth volume of his account of the first world war, published in 1929, Churchill had grandiloquently pronounced: “The conclusion of the Great War raised England to the highest position she has yet attained.” That was dubious then, but he could not possibly have said as much after VE Day.
  • (9) He resents the slur and goes to great lengths to impress journalists with his grandiloquence.
  • (10) If the Turner prize provides a rough-and-ready compass bearing for visual art in Britain, the needle has for some time been twitching towards this grandiose, grandiloquent, sometimes rough-and-ready city.
  • (11) The same fate has befallen the grandiloquent mansions of other men before and since.