What's the difference between grandeur and magnanimousness?
Grandeur
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has chosen to live in a modest Vatican hotel room instead of the grandeur of the apostolic palace; and he has dropped some of the papal pomp, while preaching the Roman Catholic church's need to identify with the world's poor.
(2) While gothic grandeur fills the windows, the walls are plastered with pop memorabilia and personal paraphernalia: tributes, affectionate caricatures; a Who poster signed by Roger Daltrey; a Queens Park Rangers banner and, relegated to the top of a bookcase, a ministerial red box from the Home Office.
(3) Is Sisi’s UK visit going to fill my car with gas?’ A lot of people are increasingly disenchanted with the government, simply because it is failing to live up to its own illusions of grandeur.” Among the disenchanted are thousands of workers in the critical textiles sector who are striking over pay and conditions.
(4) New Gambian leader Adama Barrow sworn in at ceremony in Senegal Read more But Jammeh, like most dictators, gives greater weight to his ego and grandeur over national peace and harmony.
(5) "The interesting thing about the protest camp for me is that St Paul's is very, very good at doing the grandeur and otherness of God.
(6) Given the unusual grandeur of the Buddhist temples and palaces in the settlement, Mes Aynak might once have been a theocracy like Tibet, with the monks exploiting the copper reserves as a source of power and profit, not unlike the Cistercian monks who dominated the pre-industrial economy in many parts of medieval France and England.
(7) I do not think so, or at least this is not my conception either of politics or of Europe’s grandeur.
(8) The idea is to inject grandeur (as conveyed by the cultural and official institutions) and if possible, beauty, to Paris's many environs.
(9) Somehow the story seeped into our bones, expressed in our best-loved sitcoms – with their tales of frustrated men, from Captain Mainwaring to David Brent, made ridiculous by delusions of grandeur – and by a brand of newspaper whose unspoken daily message is that the country is going to the dogs.
(10) Combined with a dig at his international translators, a long-suffering crew on the SS Roth, was an ironical detachment, even grandeur.
(11) Whereas Theresa May bases her vision of a “global Britain” largely on the country’s trade potential, Mr Macron invoked, among other things, France’s writers, painters and musicians who “put politics in its true place by making us see beyond everyday things to a place that gives the human condition its grandeur, beauty and even its tragedy”.
(12) The incidence of delusions with persecution, reference, physical persecution and grandeur was relatively high in patients in Shanghai or Tokyo, while the incidence of delusions with hypochondriacal and guilt was low in both hospitals.
(13) Some people make a point of moving to the most prestigious institution that makes them an offer in the expectation its grandeur will rub off on them.
(14) Unfortunately, for all its engineering grandeur, there is enough ammunition to be cynical about HS1.
(15) But soon delegates start arriving in the French capital for preliminary meetings ahead of COP21 , the United Nations climate change summit which will be launched on 30 November with all the grandeur attendant on a gathering of global leaders.
(16) It was the greatest running gag in basketball ever since he pulled off his Cleveland Cavaliers jersey after the shocking playoff defeat against the Celtics in 2010, and then followed it up with the league-wide embarrassment that was The Decision in all of its self-glorifying, ill-conceived grandeur.
(17) It was found that 72.9% of the patients were deluded, the most common delusions being of persecution, grandeur and guilt; in 34.9% of the deluded patients, the delusion had a religious content.
(18) O’Brien’s childhood was defined by an intense relationship with her mother, who kept precarious peace in a home of “semi-grandeur”.
(19) This appears to have given players such as the France midfielder Moussa Sissoko delusions of grandeur.
(20) Just as Francis has shunned the grandeur of the papal apartment in favour of a simple room, so John Paul spoke in the first person, declined to be borne aloft on the papal throne (until he was pressured into it), refused a papal coronation in favour of a more low-key investiture, and sent the clearest of signals that he was a moderniser.