Sentences with phrase «grand words»
From that first, grand word came no flood of others.
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Grand words for a policy that essentially champions the higher health - care costs associated with obesity.
Unfortunately, today, only three of the four installations appear to be working; the fourth, a triptych (a somewhat grand word to use in this context, but still) entitled Things Change, is as dark and mournful as an abandoned television set.
1st February 2007, Brussels - In light of tomorrow's release of the latest, starkest findings on climate change, Friends of the Earth Europe has called for the EU to swap grand words with serious action to face up to the crisis.
Steer away from grand words and phrases that you would not usually use in a conversation.
I associate food with all sorts of things — a means of gathering together, a mode for celebration, a medium of remembrance, a conduit for family traditions, all those grand words.
No, it should be a grand word, one with many letters, such as antediluvian.»
He related the grand words of then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam as he handed over the title to the Wave Hill station in 1975, and the response from Lingiari in Gurinji, which was translated as: