(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.
Tall
Definition:
(superl.) High in stature; having a considerable, or an unusual, extension upward; long and comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast.
(1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(2) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(3) Treatment of tall peas with the growth retardant AMO-1618 reduces growth and oxidase activity.
(4) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(5) The stratum superficiale consists during this phase of tall columnar cells.
(6) Further analysis revealed Senebkay was tall for his time at 1.78m (5ft 10in), and died at some point in his late 40s.
(7) Two additional studies were conducted to determine the effects of lysocellin and monensin on macromineral apparent absorption and retention in steers fed tall fescue greenchop.
(8) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
(9) He has such good body and he has really really good legs Butt… And he is slim tall and good skin."
(10) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
(11) In fact, Wilson is 6ft 4ins tall, about an inch taller than Brown.
(12) We call for a more structured policy for tall buildings, with transparency for the public and clarity for developers.
(13) In those with tall R wave by ECG at baseline, who survived the 5-year follow-up, incidence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) by ECG criteria was 4.1% in the stepped care group and 8.6% in the referred care group (p less than 0.01).
(14) [In 2014 I saw two Oscars … one was this super-Olympian, very successful, who seemed totally in control and even physically tall with his prostheses.
(15) We have studied the effect of somatostatin analogue (SMS 201-995) given as a subcutaneous injection on the growth and growth hormone secretion in seven tall children (two male; five female).
(16) Maybe it will do him good to go away with England.” Such is the cyclical life of goalscorers, there are times when those fractions that can be the difference between a ball ending up nestled in the net, or agonisingly wide, or foiled by a goalkeeper that probably seems 10 feet tall, loom large.
(17) Preliminary reports indicate efficacy of Sandostatin in psoriasis, autonomic neuropathy (postprandial and orthostatic hypotension) and its ability to reduce height velocity in tall adolescents.
(18) In some areas farmers are not allowed grow tall maize – a potential source of cover for militants.
(19) In conclusion, high doses testosterone-treatment in excessively tall boys needs the additional care of dermatologist when mostly after a 7 months period acne begins to develop under this treatment.
(20) At more than 1.83m (6ft) tall and weighing more than 125kg (20 stone), Qatada is a conspicuous figure, but it still took 11 months to track him down.