Sentences with phrase «make grandiose»

One doesn't want overblown monstrosities, or for artists just to make grandiose versions of the kind of things they have done elsewhere.

how do I top everything I've already done in Indonesia to make a grandiose return back?

It isn't difficult for fraudulent practitioners to make grandiose claims with little retribution, due to the lack of regulation.

The representative didn't make grandiose promises or unrealistic guarantees.

If it came to, say, $ 100, I wouldn't make grandiose plans about buying a new Mercedes.

Every so often authors immersed in the traditional world of publishing pop their heads above the precipice and make grandiose statements about independent publishing, the retail book trade, and, in particular, self - publishing and self - published authors... Orange Prize - winner Ann Patchett is the latest author to share her wisdom on publishing and the use of self - publishing services by authors.

My sales are still relatively small to be attempting to make grandiose generalizations, but the feedback has been nothing but positive.

These girls are passionate, and mostly Lithuanian women are very beautiful, and they also know how to make grandiose parties!

People make grandiose resolutions instead of setting smaller, manageable goals, and every year when friends invite me out, I always fantasize about staying in and sipping on bubbly.

Both make grandiose promises — they in stump speeches, we in grant applications — but we're more directly held accountable for ours.

«It's trendy for businesses to make grandiose claims about how important design is to them,» she said.

Once again then, Miliband has chosen to make a grandiose statement on an issue, without any thoughtful policy - making backdrop.

Many of us make grandiose but vague New Year's resolutions to «get healthy,» but the solution to a healthier you starts with small, simple changes that add up to a healthier, happier you!

You don't have to make a grandiose or expensive gesture (though you certainly can!).

Religious insti.tutions make grandiose and false claimes about historical events or «miracles» that aren't miracles at all, science has been able to wrap each one up as false, hoax or true but because of natural laws that have no need of a diety.

They instead make grandiose, deluded claims that are clearly untrue.

Or make grandiose statements, claiming that bad things «always» happen or that it would take a miracle for their misfortune to change?

It's been three years since Premier Christy Clark made her grandiose promises around job creation.

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.»

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

He goes home and makes grandiose promises — and then he goes to Albany and fails to pass a single bill or deliver a single result in four years.»

But last month at a forum at downtown Syracuse's Landmark Theatre, the argument was made that grandiose theaters shouldn't be viewed as charities.

Instead of making grandiose statements such as, «I'm going to get rid of everything I own on Saturday,» reframe your intention into something like, «This Saturday I am committed to cleaning out my chest of drawers.

Yes - what I like about this is that Mr Wilkins makes no grandiose claims to revolutionising education or educating for the twenty - first century.Instead, the digital delivery day confronts a real problem (the grand prix) and simply offers a creative solution.

He makes grandiose promises but never follows through.

The title makes grandiose claims, and then there is not enough in the book to back them up.

, or making grandiose gesticulations when I get into a political debate with someone — waving my hands or pinching the air.

They're not making grandiose claims.

Once the politicians started making grandiose claims and issuing apocalyptic scenarios, climate change became — in the minds of the public — a political excuse for social engineering and taxation.

Once the politicians started making grandiose claims and issuing apocalyptic scenarios,»

As we have extensively documented in, Roy Spencer has a propensity for performing curve fitting exercises with a simple climate model by allowing its parameters to vary without physical constraints, and then making grandiose claims about his results.

Not exact matches

You can certainly make it big with an enormous ego and a grandiose personality.

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

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.

Joe has made three important «acceptances,» (or «surrenders»)-- each is a step away from grandiose isolation of alcoholism.

Grandiose and egomaniacal... just makes me sad... he has no idea what he's doing.

If the claims made so far sound a bit grandiose, let us put it more cautiously.

This is true of all historical figures and especially those around whom grandiose claims have been made.

You citizens don't have to settle for the grandiose but empty plans to make poverty history.

When a relationship gets really messed up, we know that some grandiose gesture like showing up from across the country, or standing outside a window with a boombox, or chasing someone down a traffic - filled bridge in a cab isn't going to make it better.

I had this grandiose plan of making some sourdough crumpets.

Can such projects make a lasting difference, or is the dream of salvation through sports too grandiose?

Making his debut for Arsenal against Manchester City, Welbeck was inches away from kick starting his Arsenal career on a grandiose note, as his attempted chip over Joe Hart struck the post and ricocheted back into the England No. 1's grasp.

Perhaps the LPGA's most effective reply yet to all those who think the women's game is troubled — that it should be thinner or younger or sexier or richer or smaller - breasted or larger - breasted - came in last weekend's JCPenney / LPGA Skins Game, a grandiose, made - for - TV 18 - hole event at windswept Stonebriar Country Club in Frisco, Texas, where Dottie Mochrie won a record $ 290,000 in a single afternoon.

Fearless, defining names — These names make a clear statement, they're bold and grandiose.

Grandiose praise does not make a child feel seen for who they really are.

«Something surreal is afoot when the government advertises its own failings in order to make the case for new Labour's grandiose ID card scheme,» noted Lib Dem home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg.

However, President - Elect Trump has made numerous grandiose promises which potentially affect large policy making networks.

The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) wants President Akufo - Addo to come clean on his «grandiose campaign promises» made to Ghanaians, when he delivers his maiden State of the Nation Address tomorrow, February 21, 2017.

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