Sentences with phrase «grandiose visions»

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.

Business plans often detract from grandiose visions because they are inherently formulaic.

American Apparel's history has been, in effect, one long struggle to fund Charney's grandiose vision.

After days of following Elon Musk's verbal bread crumbs on Twitter, the billionaire entrepreneur published his «Master Plan Part Deux» on Wednesday night, outlining a sweeping and grandiose vision that laid out future Tesla vehicles, shared and autonomous cars, and combined solar panels and batteries.

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.

Revelation evokes this last act of the drama in the grandiose vision of the defeat of the dragon (12:9 - 12).

«It's clear they have this grandiose vision and we're just an obstacle,» said Susan Gammie, a 35 - year resident of the Village and public member of the Community Board.

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

They do not have big ideas or a grandiose vision of what America should be like.

Its rich history is manifested by its distinguished landmarks like the Eifel Tower, spectacular pieces of art at the Louvre Museum and a grandiose vision at the Palace of Versailles.

We'll approach this from the end and work backward, and get the downside out of the way first, because, whether or not you're fully aware of how Ground Zeroes slots into Hideo Kojima's grandiose vision for Metal Gear Solid V, this eagerly anticipated return of Snake does most of what you'd expect of it, confidently refreshing the series» core mechanics, adding some much - needed narrative gravitas (and restraint) and blowing the tightly wound stealth antics wide open in a miniature sandbox that endures countless retreads.

Not exact matches

But Kaloyeros» vision was grandiose: high - tech companies in gleaming state - of - the - art buildings, like the ZEN building on SUNY Poly's Albany campus.

It's the artists themselves who care enough about their vision to keep creating, regardless of huge sales or grandiose recognition.

Her work addresses the grandiose temple project through a vision of its future: Does its construction necessarily foreshadow its destruction?

The elites harbored grandiose, extravagant visions of being the center and the apex of the world, of being the crux of the modern and the destined leader of the world, reflecting a kind of Hegelian idea that the cycles of world history had led from one great empire to the next and had finally culminated in American modernity.

Samsung's vision for Bixby is a grandiose one to say the least; part of the reason Samsung purchased the technology and is working to integrate it with its latest devices is all in how it works.