Sentences with phrase «most grandiose»

Perhaps Kai Althoff's homage to the fluid seductiveness of Jewish masculinity hung on translucent silk curtains is the show's most grandiose artwork; it's exceptionally beautiful and weird in a German - Catholic - homo sort of way, and you can see how, in the moments where the more dangerous confluences of personal proclivities begin to surface, the curators» premise allows for a kind of Huysmans-esque inventiveness.

Trafalgar Square, London's most grandiose and theatrical public space, is at the moment enlivened by a sculpture of a vast, bright - blue cock.

The topic arises because his most grandiose project to date, a commission to erect a 170 - foot - high white horse sculpture in Kent County, southeastern England, is on hold as efforts to raise the # 12 million cost flag.

Since then, Chin has returned numerous times, for exhibitions, talks, family gatherings, but his next return will undoubtedly be the most grandiose: A collaboration between the University of Houston's Blaffer Art Museum, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Station Museum of Contemporary Art and Asia Society Texas Center.

It's quite possibly the most grandiose «leak» we've had so far, rivaling even those of Emily Rogers.

The Riviera Maya has some of the most grandiose marine scenarios, both in the ocean, lagoons and cenotes.

But Catherine's most grandiose project was the renovation of Russia's Winter Palace.

With these opening lines Sean Wilsey takes us on an exhilarating tour of life in the strangest, wealthiest, and most grandiose of families.

«Through the efforts of many, I have been mentored and supported, which has allowed me to serve in leadership positions that exceed even the most grandiose dreams of my youth.

This is Wheatley's most grandiose and ambitious film to date.

Dunkirk might be Christopher Nolan's most grandiose film and his most personal.

I take great pleasure in the most grandiose or simplest things that life has to offer.

Sometimes words just don't cut it and even the most grandiose political operator is reduced to his fists.

Finishing 42 shots behind the winner will crush even the most grandiose of golfing dreams.

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I know the title «I promise you one of the most meaningful days of your life» sounds grandiose but I mean it and I hope you'll read through to the end and choose to take one small, totally free action, that will change your life and likely those of others.

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

But the most remarkable fact about SpaceX is that — right from the start, before the first rocket had lifted an inch off the ground — it was explicitly intended as the means to another, far more grandiose and idealistic end: colonizing Mars.

One should add that, while he is filled with ambition to be the leader of the USA and all that that entails, he doesn't appear to have grandiose weirdo expectations of his own world historical significance, nor does he (as do most of the professing Mormons I have I known) have any of the minor peccadilloes of ordinary vice that cause embarrassment for candidates and elected officials alike.

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.

Ah yes, the grandiose proclamation that a point spread has been messed up by oddsmakers on the single most important game to the entire industry here in town.

In attacking areas, Kazenga Lua Lua was probably the Seagull's most effective player on the day and if the comparison isn't too grandiose, every tiki - taka outfit needs a dribbler to provide penetration — Lua Lua found the gap between Sean Morrison and Chris Gunter an ample one and he'll be satisfied with his afternoon's work.

Kurzweil has his skeptics — most of whose counterarguments can be summarized as, nah, that would just be too weird — but even if he's grandiose in his predictions by several orders of magnitude, it still seems a safe bet that we are heading into a world where discretion has no meaning.

One of the most essential elements that forms the basis of an Indian woman's grandiose, is jewellery.

As everyone weighs in, let's take a few pointers from Hollywood's most fashionable playbook for our own grandiose gala dresses this season.

This was my outfit to go for a morning of exploring city of Split, one of the most beautiful, grandiose and unique cities I've ever been to.

Everything about IIFA is grandiose because of the power packed performances, celebrity appearance, award ceremony and most important, it is always set in some exotic foreign location.

Great architecture, a grandiose cathedral, and a leafy city - centre mark it as one of the UK's most attractive cities.

Three - time Academy Award winner Emmanuel Lubezki has been the cinematographer for some of recent cinema's most sweeping, grandiose film events.

Most of the films he did were full of grandiose stunts, many directed by Hal Needham (Smokey and the Bandit II, Cannonball Run II), a former stunt coordinator himself, so making a film surrounding the life of a stunt man would seem like a very natural fit.

Black, who marveled that the scripts bought for the most money were the ones that looked the least like those scripts when the movies finally came out, later described the film as «a frustrating proposition, so much potential, then a lot of «big action» which evolved over time and bloated a much less grandiose blueprint.

Even the art style for the most part chases the ever - elusive photoreality, with Rajinikanth - as - Rana closely (as possible) resembling his modern day flesh - and - blood appearance, and the grandiose settings aping what the likes of Cecil B. DeMille achieved practically in the Hollywood historical epics of yesteryear.

In fact, in terms of sheer scale, it was always going to have to be the most epic and grandiose entry yet seen in this universe.

Unlike most modern - day actioners, it never plays grandiose, and never does the screenplay by Richard Wenk (16 Blocks, Just the Ticket) and Lewis John Carlino (whose original 1972 screenplay provides the basis for this one) try to tie what's going on into a larger, more topical world view.

Hollywood was quick to notice his taste for theatrics and soon let him host award shows with grandiose musical numbers to celebrate the most sophisticated performances.

Certainly, the film features some of the most breathtaking widescreen images of the desert ever photographed (by cinematographer Freddie Young); Maurice Jarre's famous score is appropriately grandiose; and the pushing - four - hours run time more than satisfies any notions of «epic» length.

However, they add, most people won't need that many properties: two or three may suffice, depending on how grandiose one's retirement dreams are.

The Cathedral of Seville is the most beautiful and grandiose cathedral that I have ever seen.

Kata Beach Resort & Spa is a 275 - room four - star resort located on one of the most picturesque beaches in Phuket - Kata.Designed in classic Thai lines with a grand open lobby, the resort goes in for bold lines, high ceilings, grandiose restaurants and a stylish seaside look and feel to it.The aptly named Atrium Coffee Shop & Terrace serves breakfast with all - day dining consisting of international and Thai cuisine and has live music in the evenings while Peppino Italian Restaurant and Pub will serve up tasty Italian delights.The Poolside Bar is perhaps the most photogenic place in the resort with its heady mix of turquoise pool, tropical foliage, and sea views and it stays open until 23:30 while there is a good selection of cakes and patisseries at the Coffee mill next to the Atrium outlet.

A grandiose swimming pool, 4 magnificent bedrooms and the most congenial of staff, including a car and driver, compliments the idyllic Villa Levi and makes it a prime destination for families and friends.

One of the most decorated JRPG franchises, the Tales of... series consistently offers players grandiose stories and worlds with characters of equal caliber to explore them.

It's the most grotesque and grandiose, with more processing power to fit more enemies into the world without performance drops.

Yet when all's said and done, the grandiose nature of this game, the deceptively elaborate and well - crafted mechanics, the memorable characters, and most importantly - the enticingly addictive gameplay, allowed me to overlook the game's few blemishes for the most part.

Tornay took us through the grandiose tale of one clan who had been the most massive of successful hunting streaks in the game so far.

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.

Shunning the grandiose, Jones» interests lie in the most basic essentials: the relationship of form, composition and color, and the subtle nuances that give his paintings marvelous character.

With his knighthood and litany of establishment honours, he has more excuse than most to turn grandiose.

Known by most, in the contemporary art scene, for his 16th century inspired allegorical still lives, where his carefully constructed panels contain playful, yet honest objects which remind viewers of death's inevitability, to his various grandiose and remarkably detailed storefront window installations commissioned by the exclusive and internationally renowned Bergdorf Goodman department store; this particular third solo exhibition at Salomon Contemporary, «Interstellar Overdrive «is a hypnotic show all on it's own.

On the occasion of its 10th anniversary, and to celebrate a decade of successful exhibitions in Rome, the Gallery has decided to prepare more than a celebration, giving birth to a grandiose reunion of its most important pop surreal icons that will collaborate with new international figures in a magical meeting, beginning in London on October 2017, and continuing in Rome on November 2017.

But the past two years have seen the emergence of a series of grandiose mega-schemes which aim to privatise most, if not all, of a council's services at a stroke.

Of course most scientists don't like the grandiose claims that imply they have been stupid and that's the point — good science can be and is rejected only because it implies that the orthodoxy has been stupid.