(a.) Impressive or elevating in effect; imposing; splendid; striking; -- in a good sense.
(a.) Characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor; flaunting; turgid; bombastic; -- in a bad sense; as, a grandiose style.
Example Sentences:
(1) Paranoid states is a term that covers a number of different disorders in which persecutory and grandiose ideas and delusions constitute a significant part of the symptoms.
(2) It was found that psychiatric and nursing observations corresponded over a wide area of psychopathology: anxiety, tension, depression, hostility, preoccupation with hypochondriacal, grandiose and self-depreciatory ideas, hallucinosis, thought disorders, mannerisms, retardation, emotional withdrawal, hypomanic activity and uncooperative behaviour.
(3) Using various self-report indices of these constructs we found that (a) defensive self-enhancement is composed of two orthogonal components: grandiosity and social desirability; (b) grandiosity and social desirability independently predict self-esteem and may represent distinct confounds in the measurement of self-esteem, (c) narcissism is positively related to grandiose self-enhancement (as opposed to social desirability), (d) narcissism is positively associated with both defensive and nondefensive self-esteem, and (e) authority, self-sufficiency, and vanity are the narcissistic elements most indicative of nondefensive self-esteem.
(4) Variations in MAO activity were not significantly associated with the 65 clinical variables analyzed, although there was a tendency for patients in the low-MAO group to have more severely impaired reality testing, more paranoid and grandiose delusions, better prognostic scores, and less restlessness.
(5) Work has already begun to reshape some London roads and junctions, part of a grandiose £900m plan unveiled by Boris Johnson earlier this year.
(6) A distinction is made between infantile omnipotence and grandiosity.
(7) Doubles from £82 Royal Jardins Boutique Hotel Two blocks from the grandiose, futuristic sweep of Paulista Avenue, South America's Broadway, and right by its shady Triannon park, this is a hotel with all the cream tones, clever lighting and marble lobby that say "posh".
(8) In this paper the concept of the personal myth was expanded to include similar defensive constellations originating from within the grandiose self, built around omnipotent and omniscient fantasies and occurring in character formations with pregenital, narcissistic pathology.
(9) Certain problem behaviors of addicted clients can be addressed through confrontation and group pressure; to be expected are problems with manipulation, avoidance, aggression, impulsiveness, and grandiose denial.
(10) Concerning psychopathology probands with religious thematization in their psychosis had higher values of "grandiosity" in the IMPS (LORR), had more often experiences of immediate inspiration, evidence and clearness.
(11) In narcissistic individuals the grandiose self persists, making impossible demands for omnipotence.
(12) This was a galaxy-spanning utopia whose name was chosen for its self-deprecating modesty, rather than something grandiose like the Federation or the Empire.
(13) Maréchal-Le Pen, who grew up cosseted among the close-knit clan in Jean-Marie Le Pen’s grandiose suburban manor house – where she still lives with her husband, baby daughter and various relatives – holds an increasingly important role in the Le Pen family soap opera.
(14) Wen has scored at least one big victory in his time as premier: he is widely considered instrumental in sacking the Chongqing party chief Bo Xilai – a charismatic leader with a flair for Mao-era grandiosity – triggering the party's most dramatic political upheaval in decades.
(15) This development can only be understood as a social neurosis, with the narcistic frustation of the intellectual class as its cause, and grandiose claims, intolerance, dogmatic thinking and destructive behaviour as its symptoms.
(16) Moreau was a master of symbolist painting, who lived and worked in this grandiose house, which the artist himself had designed in the 19th century and today exhibits a quite incredible 1,300 of his striking works.
(17) We interpret these findings to mean that some schizophrenics may prefer an ego-syntonic grandiose psychosis to a relative drug-induced normality.
(18) Patients who persistently disapproved of the decision to override their treatment refusal were highly grandiose, engaged in denial of psychotic proportions, and responded poorly to treatment.
(19) Sadly, it would seem whoever is in government the grandiose ambition of the security state doesn't change.
(20) Nash was heavily criticised in his day and after for preferring grandiose scenic effects over actual build quality, with cheap brick houses under the painted cream stucco, but now his developments are kept up to a sparkle by their astonishingly wealthy occupiers.
Portal
Definition:
(n.) A door or gate; hence, a way of entrance or exit, especially one that is grand and imposing.
(n.) The lesser gate, where there are two of different dimensions.
(n.) Formerly, a small square corner in a room separated from the rest of the apartment by wainscoting, forming a short passage to another apartment.
(n.) By analogy with the French portail, used by recent writers for the whole architectural composition which surrounds and includes the doorways and porches of a church.
(n.) The space, at one end, between opposite trusses when these are terminated by inclined braces.
(n.) A prayer book or breviary; a portass.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a porta, especially the porta of the liver; as, the portal vein, which enters the liver at the porta, and divides into capillaries after the manner of an artery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maximum increases in portal plasma secretin concentrations of 143, 146 and 190% and maximum increases in VIP of 116, 155 and 147% after, respectively, intraduodenal 0.1 M NaHCO3, 0.1 M Na2CO3, and 0.025 M NaOH were found.
(2) The statistical T value calculated for the LP-TAE group showed that the administration of LP, the tumor size, intrahepatic metastasis, portal vein infiltration, and serum total bilirubin and alpha-fetoprotein levels significantly (P < 0.01) affected the patients' survival.
(3) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(4) Portal venous blood flow was reduced by approximately 30%.
(5) The concomitant reduction in aortic pressure and increase in heart rate following total occlusion of the portal vein were most pronounced during the first weeks after stenosis, and were probably due to diminished venous return to the heart.
(6) In cancer of the pancreas head, cancer cells could invade the portal vein and perineural space of the celiac plexus, and metastasize to regional lymph nodes around the celiac axis.
(7) Immediate hemostasis was not influenced by the etiology of portal hypertension.
(8) Portal vein ligation resulted in testicular atrophy and low serum testosterone concentrations.
(9) In chronic active hepatitis and liver cirrhosis, both carbohydrate antigen 19-9 positive biliary ductular cells and factor VIII-related antigen positive endothelial cells were not only observed in the enlarged portal area but also extended into the parenchyma.
(10) Compared with the portal vein, lymphatic duct revealed a greater resistance to hypoxia.
(11) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
(12) Thirty patients were evaluated in a blind fashion to study the effect of oral propranolol on portal hypertension of varied aetiology.
(13) These results indicate that the pars tuberalis forms and secretes LH via the hypophyseal portal circulation.
(14) Pregnant females displayed a greater hyperinsulinemia both in the portal vein and the artery over the first hour.
(15) A low-sodium diet (0.05% Na+, control 0.5% Na+) significantly lowered stimulated [3H]NE release from portal vein and anterior hypothalamus in SHR and WKY at all three ages.
(16) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
(17) On angiography portal-hepatic venous shunt was observed in one case.
(18) Terlipressin (Glypressin), a synthetic analog of vasopressin, induces arteriolar vasoconstriction which causes both a portal hypotensive effect and certain side-effects on the systemic circulation (elevated arterial pressure and reduced cardiac output).
(19) Portal lipogranulomas show a distinctive morphology with fat vacuoles surrounded by macrophages.
(20) A technique of diversion of the gastroduodenal vein in a canine model is described to compare long-term metabolic effects of systemic versus portal pancreatic endocrine drainage.