Sentences with phrase «in grandiose»

In fact, almost all of us act out in grandiose ways that interfere in our relationships.

Yet, whether you're taking in a grandiose landscape like the one a little further down this page, or just admiring a nearby tree, playing on the Pro unlocks a slew of visual secrets hidden away on a standard system.

But more to the practicalities, which seem to be missing in the grandiose bravado pronouncements, the 2010 model year vehicles have fully completed their design work and manufacturing plans are already finalized.

Over the next few years almost every area of science and culture was embroiled in grandiose campaigns to do away with «groveling before the West,» «anti-patriotism» (later «anticosmopolitanism»), and generally anything «non - Russian.»

The rationale for this secrecy can perhaps be found in the grandiose ambitions of the TPP and similar agreements.

They are not original in that grandiose, attention - grabbing way — they are figures in landscapes painted in oils.

After the pioneering first edition, organized with the National Gallery in 2003, and following with three successful editions in the grandiose industrial space of Karlin Hall, the last edition took place in the futuristic Microna skyscraper.

Her use of raw materials in a grandiose fashion hints at emotion merging into concept — manual...

The center, which opened on Thursday, celebrates a local hero who chose to come home and presents Bartlett as an important contemporary painter working in a grandiose tradition championed a century ago by George Bellows, Robert Henri and, to a lesser degree, Edward Hopper.

``... the annual event that stretches from East Williamsburg to Ridgewood in a grandiose three - day celebration of art on levels both individually intimate — as artists open their creative spaces to the public — and collectively extravagant — via group exhibitions, performances of various sorts, screenings, parties and so forth.»

Fizzco has created an unstoppable hype machine surrounding their new product, with the massive media blitz set to culminate in a grandiose launch party at Fizzco's headquarters in Sunset City.

I'm ridiculously excited to get my hands on Uncharted 4, as it's all - but - guaranteed to be a wild ride worth taking that closes out Naughty Dog's time with Uncharted in grandiose style.

Feels like walking in a grandiose green Cathedral.

Hosting the Scottish Crown Jewels, you can find out more of Scottish history in its grandiose Great Hall and the barracks that may be haunted by the ghosts of angry prisoners.

The suite's interior is decked in grandiose Renaissance - style décor with four - post beds, Corinthian columns, floor - to - ceiling windows, a stunning Cathedral - dome ceiling and a 12 - seat dining room table with a chandelier of Murano glass.

In 1929, the former kingdoms of Bali were restored to their hereditary ruler as self governing territories in a grandiose ceremony at Besakih.

And for a tablet with a relatively low asking price, the A100 behaves in a grandiose way.

Redesign it, of course and unveil it in grandiose fashion under the big - top at the 2014 New York International Auto Show (going on right now).

However, as each chapter in this grandiose cinematic universe unfolded, another weight was added to the staggering burden the producers carried.

With Blade Runner 2049, Villeneuve did exactly what any good filmmaker directing a sequel should do: he took the themes of the original and expounded upon them in grandiose fashion.

Nietzsche famously stated that which doesn't kill you makes you stronger and Jennifer Hills becomes proof of that as she pre-emptively asks God for forgiveness and proceeds to get even with each of her violators in grandiose ways.

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

Sucker Punch is a bloated, overblown and almost entirely senseless action film that has about the slightest of narrative pinning with which Snyder can sneak in another grandiose depiction of knife, sword, gun, plane and hand - to - hand combat using his live - action dolls and action figures to play with in the heavily green - screened CGI - scape.

The film was shot over the course of a dozen years, sales with the main actors returning to their roles once a year in an a grandiose attempt to capture one child's fictional growth.

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.

Finally, in a grandiose attempt to unify his field work, Freeman posits: «The feminist movement has strong ties to socialism,» before concluding that society should: «Reduce the tax credit for day - care expenses of two - career families.

Much fun, too, is had at the expense of Washington's staffers and politicos, gasping for breath in grandiose, cast - iron, glass - roofed buildings in a city that was, according to legend, a hardship post for foreign diplomats because it was located «at the bottom of a topographical saucer where moist and motionless air settles with smothering compression».

Instead, he talks in grandiose terms about stuff like making NYS the leader in wind power.

Thus perfectionism is satisfied in the grandiose, illusory world of alcohol.

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

Not only is Revelation a metaphorical coded message, it was written in the grandiose fantastical style of a Greco - Roman theatrical entertainment.

They tend to be page after page of sheer assertion, in grandiose United Nations style, with little argumentation to back it up.

One company that provides access to MOOCs (massive open online courses) explains its mission in grandiose terms.

Not exact matches

With their headsets clamped on and swivel chairs pushed in, they resembled grandiose telemarketers — one side dressed in spiffy red - and - white varsity jackets, the other in long - sleeve black crewnecks with white tiger logos on the chest.

But China's grandiose contribution, called Crown of the East and featuring the theme «Chinese wisdom in urban development,» is the Expo's centrepiece.

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

Likewise, in the workplace, if you tell your team about your grandiose plans for the organization twice a week, they will tune you out.

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

The CrowdMed cofounder thinks women in the technology industry need to be take a cue from the men around them and be more arrogant and grandiose in their self - assessments.

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.

But in the political world, the open secret about the company is that it never quite delivered on its grandiose promises or its «secret sauce.»

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).

Few entrepreneurs in his stratosphere could make such a grandiose pitch land so solidly.

The following excerpt from the fourth book in Harry Sidebottom's «Warrior of Rome» series is part of a discussion between Gallienus and his senior advisors regarding how an appropriately - grandiose «decennalia» would be funded:

It makes sense that such intense competitive pressure drives startup founders to pitch their company to prospective hires in ever more grandiose terms, exaggerate how well their company is «crushing it,» and make their company culture sound like the happiest place on earth.

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

But that doesn't prevent me from being in aw of the grandiose of nature, of the universe.

Close students of the Supreme Court will tell you that they could see this coming: Compassion in Dying is only the first of many cases based on claims of autonomous individualism that the Court invited with its loose and grandiose Casey language.

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.

Despite its grandiose «sounding name, the WJC, founded in 1936, can not be termed a representative body of the Jewish people.