Sentences with phrase «many grandiose ideas»

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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).

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

Abandon those grandiose ideas of an MMORPG.

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.»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

It's all quite thought - provoking... as are my other crazy ponderings about God being bi-polar with His grandiose violent behavior in the Old Testament and somewhat paradoxical catatonic tranquility in the New or my atheist son's idea that God, if he exists at all, certainly exhibits traits of narcissistic personality disorder.

The guys who choose to support the club / players with a bias for their own players (an incredible idea isn't it when you think about it — bias towards your own team) and just get on with it are 100 % devoid of any grandiose delusion.

It also gives Andrew the opportunity to add his bad idea to the long list of grandiose but awful plans for the Javits site.

The colours of cities, the costumes of movies, regardless of how grandiose they may be, all spark that idea that turns into an outfit that you guys look at and read about here!

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.

For another, the details of the heist are far more complicated with a lot of moving parts and ancillary characters, such as Dwight Yoakam's prison warden, who have no idea that they are playing a part in Jimmy's grandiose scheme.

«People come to me with all kinds of ideas, and the challenge is the plans are so broad and big and grandiose, and others are so narrowly defined,» she says.

But let that lead to no false ideas of grandiose slides and sports car poise, the Smart is happiest in the city.

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

You should probably stop reading now if your idea of an idyllic vacation includes grandiose hotels, stylish restaurants that require reservations days in advance and if you are enamored of an environment in which you're busy night and day!

Sure, ideas as grandiose as that take some time, but they are do - able — and fun, to boot!

The team was initially resistant to the idea, as EarthBound 64 was much too large and grandiose for the GBA to fully convey or use.

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.