Sentences with phrase «by grandiose»

Defined by grandiose lines and an elegant look, this modern bed will transform any ordinary bedroom into a luxurious sanctuary.

He went by the grandiose title His Holiness Sant Baba Jeet Singh ji Maharaj.

With Final Fantasy VII on the Sony PlayStation, Square found a receptive audience in the west enamored by the grandiose visuals and storytelling rarely attempted elsewhere.

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So, again, nothing is mysterious, but we can be equally (if not MORE) be in aw and be seduced by the grandiose of nature.

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

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).

The memo begins by making a grandiose claim: The FBI's use of surveillance power under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 campaign was «a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.»

Ryan is an okay guy with a grandiose sense of self only outmatched by a desire to stay current.

But later the motto slipped from use, its grandiose claim mocked by rising crime rates, a hostile civil service, Colorado's failing economy and the city maintenance department's inability to clear snow from the streets.

That appeal will be heard this fall by the Judicial Committee of the General Council of the United Church (which sounds more grandiose than it is).

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.

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.

In order to maintain his grandiose image of himself, the person must shut himself off from interpersonal reality by what Tiebout called the «alcoholic shell.»

The notion that they can be solved either by the market or by democracy, or a combination of the two, is fully competitive with some of the more grandiose socialist delusions.

These might be crudely represented by dabbling with witch - ceremonies and Hell's Angels, or musically suggested by the aggressive and grandiose aspects of the emerging hard rock sound.

If we mean by «free will» that man in his fallen state has the moral power and ability to choose righteousness, then «free will» is far too grandiose a term to apply to fallen man.»

By thus attacking her, he maintains his grandiose illusion of self - sufficiency.

This allows us to face the challenges of our time soberly, neither despairing of the possibilities of justice in public life and thus withdrawing, nor seeking to take command of history by embarking on grandiose ideological projects that encourage us to assume godlike powers over human affairs.

According to a report by the Boston Magazine, Guerrero has repeatedly been investigated by the Federal Trade Commission for making grandiose and false claims.

Ah yes, the grandiose proclamation that a point spread has been messed up by oddsmakers on the single most important game to the entire industry here in town.

The grandiose transformational change we all desire in all spheres of our lives and the national economy, and is only mere talk by the contesting candidates, is already happening big - time under John Mahama and the governing party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), unfolding right before our eyes like a theatrical drama.

This is not the tune that Nigerians were used to hearing from their all - powerful Coordinating Minister of the Economy, the first person ever to hold such a grandiose title side by side with the powerful Finance portfolio.

It comes with two embroidery hoops: one is the big hoop for large projects, and the other is a four by four - inch hoop for those embroideries that are less grandiose.

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.

He adds: «In our study, this was shown to primarily apply to «grandiose narcissism», a type of narcissism that is characterized by an exaggerated sense of superiority.»

While it may sound grandiose, the concept is straightforward — implement evidence - based protocols, monitor your body's response so you can take control of your health, and improve your biochemistry by making your mind and body work together.

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The few phone calls i had with one guy, were punctuated with good 5 -10 minute silences, bad english / bad grammar and 2 grandiose claims - of cooking food better than any chef and being drooled over by models.

Performances are more mature, the soundtrack (by Nicholas Hooper) less grandiose, and Yates executes some thrilling set - pieces.

However, if there were any movies directed during his foray into Tinseltown that even came close to the grandiose HK action belters he is famous for, Face / Off was the best of them by a stretch.

(That score, by Alex North, is often overwhelmingly grandiose and thoroughly distracting.)

The follow - up to the grandiose and lavish spectacles of Gangs of New York and The Aviator is a darkly comic and blood - filled gangster film that runs strictly by the book... plus cell phones

While still invested in grandiose swipes at big ideas and the epistemological babbling of a late night college dorm room conversation, Cahill generates an authentic sense of mystery by keeping a tighter lid on the secrets of the universe.

Stylish touches by first - time writer - director Duffy, and funny grandiose performances by the actors all work together to form an ambitious and mostly successful crime vehicle.

One is Carter Burwell's score, which feels a bit too grandiose and old - school to suit this very offbeat collection of misfits, and the second is a five minute stretch of the movie that was a combination of ugly special effects followed by pointless writing.

Most of the films he did were full of grandiose stunts, many directed by Hal Needham (Smokey and the Bandit II, Cannonball Run II), a former stunt coordinator himself, so making a film surrounding the life of a stunt man would seem like a very natural fit.

The subtext is ingenious: The mocking god of the tacky - grandiose Who Wants to Be a Millionaire has been kicked offscreen by the romantic god of Bollywood.

Spielberg knows how to direct action scenes and these sequences work by keeping an intense focus on the participants involved in the action and crafting a grandiose world around them.

Written by the director alongside Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon, John Carter is an adaptation of the first book in Burroughs» grandiose vision.

Maybe it's the music, reminiscent of last year's Ni no Kuni in its grandiose peppiness, composed by the legendary Nobuo Uematsu.

Ethical quandaries, temporal paradoxes and grandiose tragedy are all on the menu, and Steins; Gate goes through all of them one by one.

Set in the post-WWII South, Netflix's powerful period drama is based on Hillary Jordan's play and charts the story of two families pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape — the McAllan family, with wife Laura (Carey Mulligan) underprepared and overly hopeful for Henry's (Jason Clarke) grandiose farming dreams, and the Jackson family, led by Hap (Rob Morgan) and Florence Jackson (Mary J. Blige), whose families have worked the land for generations.

Those looking for a grandiose showing by Morgan Freeman had best look elsewhere.

Unlike most modern - day actioners, it never plays grandiose, and never does the screenplay by Richard Wenk (16 Blocks, Just the Ticket) and Lewis John Carlino (whose original 1972 screenplay provides the basis for this one) try to tie what's going on into a larger, more topical world view.

Williams was introduced by Rian Johnson, the «Last Jedi» director who said it's impossible to present Williams to an audience without sounding «too grandiose, like I'm dedicating a national park.»

We don't need to be lectured to about how despicable slavery is through grandiose diatribes delivered by lofty actors; we can see it merely through the story of just one man who experienced something no one should ever have to experience.

With the ably executed Prohibition - era drama Live by Night, he picks up where he left off, drawing from Gone Baby Gone's understated potency, The Town's nail - biter car chases and shootouts, and Oscar - winning Argo's humor and grandiose Hollywood polish.

Admittedly the bar has been greatly lowered when approaching any new film from M. Night Shyamalan, quondam wunderkind of cinema, whose SIXTH SENSE left us breathless with delight, and whose subsequent work left us more and more dismayed as the work deteriorated from the thoughtfully disturbing SIGNS, through the kitsch of THE VILLAGE, the silliness of THE HAPPENING, the self - indulgence of THE LADY IN THE WATER, THE LAST AIRBENDER, which left us gasping in shocked disbelief at its grandiose ineptitude, and finally the legendary disaster that was AFTER.EARTH, a film rumored to have been directed more by star Will Smith than by director - for - hire Shyamalan.

Intelligently structured by novelist Flynn herself, the film features a mannered turn by Academy Award winner Ben Affleck while the absolute success of the picture is indebted to the lavish and grandiose performance of Rosamund Pike.