Sentences with phrase «grandiose ideas»

Don't get ahead of yourself with grandiose ideas of the perfect image, let the situation play out and snap accordingly.

At first, Kelley had grandiose ideas for the work that included an online forum and an interactive convention space called Kandor - Con, but these aspects of the project never came to fruition.

I see this sloppy language everywhere, and I don't want elected politicians to be confused about how they got into office, or get even more grandiose ideas about what their job is.

As I was working with one of my students this week trying to help her come up with a doable goal project to undertake this final semester of her program, I recognized that, as is typical, she had suggested many more grandiose ideas than she would ever be able to accomplish in the course of a year, much less a semester.

All of them are megaloi, obsessed with grandiose ideas, whether they be leaders of the proletariat or revolutionary movements, or notables in the field of economics or science.

I don't think I've ever seen this many grandiose ideas crammed into such a compact volume.

It was just such a big grandiose idea that I fell in love with it immediately.

The web might seem like a fairly tame environment for such an adventurous temperament, but it is also the repository of — or at least the inspiration for — mind - blowingly grandiose ideas.

Many children have great grandiose ideas about projects or inventions, but when they are faced with the realities of making those dreams come true, they will just give up.

I think these types of people have such grandiose ideas that they are soo special and important that everyone wants to harm them (get over yourself).

Ken Johnson of the New York Times described his work (in an article dated October 2000) as «absurdly excessive installations of machinery, food, furniture, tools, automotive equipment and electronics illustrating sophomorically grandiose ideas.»

Perhaps they didn't have grandiose ideas of what the «church» should look like.

And often the author has grandiose ideas about world - wide exposure for their children's book, novel, memoir, or informational book through national TV, the NYT bestseller list, and so forth.

Seeming to exalt finite mind to a grandiose idea that humanity has arrived to fullest knowledge of all.

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.

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.

I'm put off by quasi science that has these grandiose ideas that turn out not to be right.

I get these grandiose ideas for DIY projects and they never come to fruition.

For me, when I was caught in these make up / break up relationships, a lot of what kept me going was this grandiose idea of what was possible... what we could be.

Back at the beginning of the last century, mankind had some grandiose ideas and in several areas decided to play god while having no idea of the consequences.

«Whether you have inflated, grandiose ideas of your children and what they will accomplish in life, or whether you are frightened for them or disappointed in them, all of this ultimately is rooted in fear,» she writes.

In an economic game of crack - the whip, Dubai is at the end of the line — they don't have much energy production, but they have grandiose ideas that benefit if those with oil wealth decide to spend money nearby for fun, rather than abroad.

Abandon those grandiose ideas of an MMORPG.

The grandiose ideas of abstract expressionism and the sleek formalism of minimalism don't always translate well into a world where computer - aided design and reproduction can make the physical demands of such works feel a bit overindulgent.

Frank Stella began his series of Black Paintings, announcing the beginnings of Minimalism and a considerable departure from the mythic, grandiose ideas of Abstract expressionism.

Over-complicate things because I have a grandiose idea of how the whole project should look.

We don't know exactly what neighborhood we will be going to, and we have no grandiose ideas or plans for what kind of house we might be moving into.

I don't have any grandiose ideas, just some pretty curtains and maybe a cozy rug and another shelf for storage.

Had grandiose ideas of making a scratched up1950s lane cedar chest look presentable.