(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.
Marvellous
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) You marvelled at how easy it was to live two very different lives side by side.
(2) Of course, amid this mess some free schools are doing marvellously.
(3) The infrastructure of New York that was once an "engineering marvel" is now a "liability", he said, urging a long-term rethink.
(4) Any future movie will have to fit into a schedule that includes future Star Trek instalments for Pegg and Wright's long-gestating Ant Man movie for Marvel.
(5) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
(6) Tottenham had by far the best of the chances but either their own tension in front of goal or the marvels of Howard intervened.
(7) • The Wall Street Journal uncovers communications between Sony and Marvel discussing a Spider-Man crossover and speaking disparagingly about Spider-Man star Andrew Garfield.
(8) The store, with its marvellous window displays, was as influential as her books would eventually be, pioneering a new generation of shops devoted exclusively to kitchenware.
(9) Our Mutual Friend (monthly serial, May 1864-November 1865) Dickens's last completed novel is a marvel of play-acting and posturing, of taking on roles through delusion, calculation and ambition.
(10) There is also a precedent for the disappearance of Captain America, currently played by Chris Evans , from the Marvel universe.
(11) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.
(12) While his organising framework was Marxian (beginning as "an attempt to understand the arts", as he said himself), the subjects included mountain-climbing, opera, jazz and sartorial and eating fashions as well as work patterns, class solidarity and the movements of international finance – all delivered in a marvellously flexible and pungent style.
(13) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.
(14) "If I'm acting at all, it's going to be under Marvel contract, or I'm going to be directing," said Evans.
(15) This was, as the German said, “spectacular, wild football” featuring marvellous attacking and slapdash defending.
(16) Click here to watch It has been reported elsewhere that Star Wars could be packaged in line with the studio's Marvel universe, which successfully delivered a series of comic book films focusing on individual superheroes before bringing them all together for the $1.5bn box office hit The Avengers earlier this year.
(17) Then we sit back and marvel that 3.6m households are "one push from penury ", not because of unemployment, but because wages are too low.
(18) At the heart of it, Djinguereber was and remains a marvel of architecture where, when 2,000 people line up for prayers on a Friday, you feel the greatness of God and Islam in your soul.” Miraculously, the mosque was only slightly damaged by the Islamist groups - led by al-Qaida and Ansar Dine - who occupied Timbuktu in 2012.
(19) I suppose occasionally she may have spoken brusquely to one or two people who wanted more respect, but the job of the prime minister’s chief of staff is to be strong, it’s to be tough, it’s to be focused and she did an absolutely marvellous job.” Abbott said he did not want to criticise the new treasurer, Scott Morrison, whom he accused last week of “badly misleading people” by claiming he had warned Abbott’s office on the Friday before the leadership challenge to be on high alert.
(20) A computer server isn’t a marvel of modern technology.