(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.
Perorate
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a peroration; to harangue.
Example Sentences:
(1) Efficacy and tolerability of perorally administered desmopressin were evaluated in 12 adult patients suffering from central diabetes insipidus.
(2) Fifty-six out of 60 schizophrenic patients completed a double-blind study of two long-acting neuroleptics, penfluridol (peroral) and flupenthixol decanoate (parenteral).
(3) In addition, the first patient was given a peroral prophylaxis with dantrolene; in subsequent cases this route of administration was abandoned.
(4) The subjects were studied after peroral intake of digoxin at 2 dose levels and after withdrawal of digoxin.
(5) Patients were controlled regularly both before and during peroral treatment with terbutaline.
(6) Forty-two consecutive patients undergoing uvolopalatopharyngoplasty were subjected to peroral examination of the oropharynx combined with nasendoscopic examination of the velopharyngeal valve.
(7) Three basic techniques (and one modified technique) were developed, allowing successful excision of subepiglottic cysts in 10 horses (5 Standardbreds, 4 Thoroughbreds, and 1 Quarter Horse; mean age, 3.5 years) via peroral approach.
(8) These findings represent the first clearly prenatal brain damages described for experimental peroral lead exposure.
(9) When he finished his peroration, the congregants applauded and sang the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah.
(10) Mice aged 1 week or less, however, died after intracerebral, intraperitoneal, subcutaneous and intranasal inoculation, while some of them survived after peroral inoculation.
(11) Compared with 1977 peroral anticoagulation, low-dose heparin and mechanical methods had decreased significantly, low-dose heparin in combination with dihydroergotamine increased significantly and dextran showed an unchanged use.
(12) This is again interpreted to indicate that different mechanisms control the peroral infection of Cx.
(13) The major route of excretion after peroral doses was in urine, making this mode of excretion consistent for both routes of administration evaluated in this study and including the doses given in previous iv work.
(14) We conclude that intravenous lidocaine or peroral mexiletine may be an effective analgesic treatment in patients with Dercum's disease.
(15) The nature of the gastrointestinal absorptive defect for triglyceride in three subjects with abetalipoproteinemia has been investigated by studying peroral biopsies of the gastrointestinal mucosa.
(16) These findings were taken to indicate that a significant fraction of ethanol administered perorally was metabolized during absorption before reaching the systemic circulation and that this FPM of ethanol became clearer in smaller ethanol doses.
(17) In six patients, the excretion of titratable acid was determined after peroral loading with ammonium chloride.
(18) It has been determined that submucous cleft palate can occur even when a peroral examination shows an intact uvula.
(19) When peroral ACV was started 48 h after UVR, delayed lesions developed but were less severe (P = .01-.05).
(20) Retroperitoneal group demonstrated significant decrease in blood (630 vs 1300 ml) and crystalloids (1700 vs 3250 ml) requirement, shorter nasogastric intubation time (1.6 vs 4.4 d) and quicker peroral intake.