(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.
Turgid
Definition:
(a.) Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
(a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) These cells infiltrated the vessels the walls of which were turgid but without fibrinoid necrosis (fig.
(2) From our experience and the recent literature, ultrasound shows a good reliability for the diagnosis of breast diseases during pregnancy and lactation in spite of oedema and breast turgidity, distinctive of these periods.
(3) Poland hold nerve after Switzerland’s Granit Xhaka blazes penalty wide Read more It was a turgid and torturous game, heavy on physicality and sorely lacking in class, particularly in the final third.
(4) The followup examination included palpation of the testes, at which time turgidity and consistency on both sides were judged.
(5) Thinking of this kind makes Ai not only a great artist, but a thinker of the world's next political and intellectual phase, beyond the turgid babble of contemporary politics.
(6) What makes it an almost uniquely powerful incident, however, is not the violence or the palpable menace but the open and repeated admission of racism, delivered through the turgid medium of the chant “ We’re racist, we’re racist and that’s the way we like it .” Almost no one in western societies admits to being racist.
(7) A biopsy specimen was obtained from the colon, which was thick and turgid.
(8) Or, if you prefer, Barney Ronay's analysis of a "turgid, tactically constipated semi-final”, "a deeply uninspiring match", "a game of no shots, no incident and a crushing sense of caution", "120 minutes of something that resembled a groggy second cousin of high-grade tournament football".
(9) In their wake has come a slew of me-too dramas, which have lurched between the well-made and just about worthy to the downright turgid, and in certain cases amounted to little more than excuses for veteran Hollywood stars to grab a piece of that TV-is-the-new-cinema action.
(10) Some are active growing, turgid cells, with thin protoplasts tightly pressed against their walls; in others the protoplasts may spontaneously withdraw from the wall; in still others the protoplasts disorganize, and walls thicken and become sculptured as the cells differentiate and even senesce.
(11) A scanning electron microscopical study of the third ventricular ependyma on the seventh postoperative day revealed pronounced surface modifications in the experimental animal which included (i) bulbous dilatations in the ciliary shafts with frequent apical blebbing, and an overall turgid appearance of most cilia; (ii) a profusion of tall and stout microvilli in the non-ciliated zones; (iii) an increase in the size and number of blebs; and (iv) a greater number of supraependymal cells especially on the ventricular floor.
(12) If this trend continues, China will fall back to the time when there isn’t any good literary work.” One foreign publisher said the impact was already noticeable at international book fairs where the China section had become a “dead zone” in which the most prominent work was Xi Jinping’s turgid 515-page tome on governance.
(13) Of the 8 patients who showed pronounced inflammatory cell reactions, atrophy of the testis was found later in 7; 4 of the patients who did not show any inflammatory cell reactions had normal testis size and turgidity.
(14) Thus the Koch-type reactions were indubitably more intense in inflammatory terms than the non-turgid variant form, but the results of this study do not exclude the possibility that there were underlying qualitative differences in pathogenesis between reactions of the two types as well as the obvious difference in severity.
(15) All patients were independently classified based on the evaluation of a minimum of one night of nocturnal penile tumescence recording, a sleep lab technician's rating of penile turgidity of erections, Doppler determination of penile blood flow, determination of serum prolactin and testosterone levels.
(16) Since then we have seen three bailouts, umpteen politicians driven from office, public protests, stock market plunges (and rallies), nail-biting deadlines, dramatic (and occasionally turgid) Summits.
(17) Fullness, distention, turgidity, thickening, induration, and other gross changes of the epididymides, including the formation of cystic spermatic granuloma, or spermatocele, indicated inadequate removal of spermatozoa and testicular fluid from the sequestrated proximal seminal ducts and the epididymis.
(18) Cells dissociated from normal prelactating mouse mammary glands or from spontaneous mammary adenocarcinomas, when grown at high density on an impermeable substrate, form nonproliferating, confluent, epithelial pavements in which turgid, blister-like domes appear as a result of fluid accumulation beneath the cell layer.
(19) The gonadotrophin changes were accompanied by an initial increase in the weight and turgidity of the testes which then became flaccid and atrophied.
(20) Repeated methanol treatments with glycine caused increased turgidity and stimulated plant growth without injury under indirect sunlight, but indoors with artificial illumination, foliar damage developed after 48 hr.