Sentences with phrase «as grandiose»

[7] Although her work is not as grandiose as Kippenberger, both their works engage with the dense history of European, and more specifically, German painting,.

Floor after floor showcase donations as a grandiose «thank you» to the donor pool.

Personally, the myth functions as a grandiose metaphor for the creative quest.

Not to mention, there's plenty of epic landscapes, intense action sequences, as well as grandiose monsters and creatures on display, with the game's co-protagonists Talion and Celebrimbor steadily remaining the video's focal point.

Cyber Connect2's focus is on making these fights as grandiose and surprising as possible, an initiative that undoubtedly succeeds (more on that later).

Naturally, it didn't take long for clever viewers to solve Mr. Miyamoto's puzzle, and while the answer may not be as grandiose as net sleuths may have hoped, it's still delightfully clever.

Sure, ideas as grandiose as that take some time, but they are do - able — and fun, to boot!

Although not as grandiose today, Old Goa is still worth a visit, as it's home to the Basilica of Bom Jesus, the Se Cathedral, the Church and Convent of St Cajetan and the Church of St Francis of Assisi — all of which are still lavishly decorated, so make sure you take your camera.

Your moment could be something as intimate as a beachside candlelit dinner, or as grandiose as a helicopter ride to survey a local landmark.

It isn't quite as grandiose as the S - Class Coupe nor as sleek as the C - Class Coupe.

Bridge of Spies may not be as grandiose as Saving Private Ryan or Lincoln, but it still retains those Spielberg elements we know and look forward to with his films.

The title card reading «Circle of Blood» gives way to an image of three of the Libertines made up in drag, wearing ridiculous hats, that made me think Terry Gilliam could be the man for a contemporary remake of Salò, perhaps staged as a grandiose opera à la his Damnation of Faust.

Battlefleet: Gothic Armada is as epic as its grandiose name in terms of design and gameplay scope.

But that is far from saying something as grandiose as Buddha Mind or Unity with God or some such thing happens.

Paranoia is, among other things, a stratagem for avoiding that self - destruction by designing oneself as the grandiose hero who, against a hostile world, possesses the explanation of explanations that survives every doubt and denial.

Faith exists in everyone, whether it is in something as grandiose as a mythical being of awesome power or that the sun will simply rise in the morning and fall at night.

You wouldn't think it would be hard to list your accomplishments but often times we tend to belittle our own achievements, thinking that they are not as grandiose as we would like or as exciting as other stories we have heard.

It seemed like a happy home, even if it isn't as grandiose as the mansions that many Twitter employees can now afford to buy.

Not exact matches

Surrounded by small - business owners as signed the order, Trump was characteristically grandiose on its impact if vague on the specifics.

In the beginning was the Dream, as is the case with most entrepreneurial ventures, only at that stage it wasn't too grandiose.

Not long after founding Facebook in his Harvard dorm room, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stopped talking about the company as a social site and started telling people he was building a digital phone book for the new millennium, and he never wavered from that grandiose vision.

No new grandiose neologism (the favourite of late is «North American energy security,» which presumably aims to get Americans to think about the energy market as the missing piece in the larger economic integration process underpinned by NAFTA).

But the most remarkable fact about SpaceX is that — right from the start, before the first rocket had lifted an inch off the ground — it was explicitly intended as the means to another, far more grandiose and idealistic end: colonizing Mars.

He's concerned that grandiose claims might one day trigger questions about the fairness of some athletes using technology to stimulate the brain, which has been referred to as «neuro - doping.»

One should add that, while he is filled with ambition to be the leader of the USA and all that that entails, he doesn't appear to have grandiose weirdo expectations of his own world historical significance, nor does he (as do most of the professing Mormons I have I known) have any of the minor peccadilloes of ordinary vice that cause embarrassment for candidates and elected officials alike.

Grandiose delusions may have religious content, such as the person believes he or she has received a special message from God or another deity.»

This will, Solzhenitsyn argues, can not find happiness in serving any abstraction, even one so grandiose as heaven on earth.

I cant speak much for the other Religions, but one can say the same about them as well... Buddhism for example... while their temples can be seen as less grandiose in the native locations, in the West they become Statements of what MAN can do to show - off, and not what man can do to seek the Divine.

Religious insti.tutions make grandiose and false claimes about historical events or «miracles» that aren't miracles at all, science has been able to wrap each one up as false, hoax or true but because of natural laws that have no need of a diety.

But if we pass in advance this bitter judgment of uselessness that paralyzes and discourages us, if we are thus completely lacking in love for God, or if on the other hand we magnify our works and regard them as important and successful (Jesus, little Jesus, I have so wonderfully exalted you, but if I had attacked you in your defenselessness your shame would have been as great as your glory...), if we come before God decked out in the glory of these lofty, grandiose, and successful works, then... «Woe to you that are rich» (Luke 6:24), for the rich man today is the successful man.

It will not be achieved simply by implementing a grandiose plan designed by a body such as the United Nations; even less can it be imposed by the dictates of one or more strong leaders.

It's all quite thought - provoking... as are my other crazy ponderings about God being bi-polar with His grandiose violent behavior in the Old Testament and somewhat paradoxical catatonic tranquility in the New or my atheist son's idea that God, if he exists at all, certainly exhibits traits of narcissistic personality disorder.

Further, learning from the bitter experience of grandiose notions of the state, contemporary Catholic teaching sharply delimits its role as spiritual or moral tutor.

The grandiose dedication page of The Five Gospels invokes the names of three historic figures who hover as presiding genii over this ambitious work:

Applying for college is a difficult, emotional process that often involves a lot very grandiose attempts to prove yourself as being separated from the pack, several sleepless night of studying...

In retrospect, these objectives seem overly ambitious, even grandiose, so far as their possible accomplishment in any one volume.

As his reality situation becomes increasingly grim, X requires an increasingly grandiose self - concept to protect his alcoholic ego.

At the center of the tree - filled atrium, an opulent chandelier dangles over a grandiose fountain, as luxurious a setting for a bacon club sandwich as there ever was.

Making his debut for Arsenal against Manchester City, Welbeck was inches away from kick starting his Arsenal career on a grandiose note, as his attempted chip over Joe Hart struck the post and ricocheted back into the England No. 1's grasp.

There would be a director of football, an academy director, and maybe even some other specialists with more grandiose titles such as «head of philosophy» or some other role, as is the case at some teams in the Football League.

A cynic might even think Labour knew they would not be around to put their hands in their pockets for this grandiose idea and chose routes which would upset as many Tory constituencies as possible.

For Lane Fox, however, self - deprecation outweighs any semblance of boastfulness, as she recoils at «grandiose» terms such as «pioneer» or «philanthropist».

Addiction is an extreme form of behaviour that employs existing neuronal networks that produce manic behaviour, manifested as elation, increased cognition and grandiose self - perceptions.

All the coverage will focus on the prime minister, anyway, as he stood - somehow diminished behind the grandiose front door of No 10 - facing the photographers and journalists on the other side of the street.

But last month at a forum at downtown Syracuse's Landmark Theatre, the argument was made that grandiose theaters shouldn't be viewed as charities.

Her grandiose title is not a mere tautology as some people will assume.

Paterson, who served as the Democratic leader in the Senate before Eliot Spitzer tapped him to be his lieutenant in 2006, said at that time it was a «grandiose idea» that Democrats would take back the long - Republican - dominated Senate in a single election.

Kurzweil has his skeptics — most of whose counterarguments can be summarized as, nah, that would just be too weird — but even if he's grandiose in his predictions by several orders of magnitude, it still seems a safe bet that we are heading into a world where discretion has no meaning.

Submissions varied wildly, ranging from the mythological Olympus to the much less grandiose Nubbin, defined as a «small lump or residual part» (SN Online: 11/7/17).

But there was a time when space travel kindled grandiose visions in scientists» minds, when rockets were as tall as skyscrapers and an unmanned mission seemed a failure of nerve.