Sentences with phrase «seems grandiose»

If the waxing on about the images in a game about apes collecting bananas and coins seems grandiose, it's only because the images, regardless of the concept that spawned them, are indeed that spectacular.

It's a gesture that might seem grandiose.

Its prose is terrible, it uses obfuscating and unclear language for the sake of seeming grandiose (irony intended), its repettion is attrocious.

I'm a «family favorites» — «Classic» can seem grandiose and even cold — but it's also tried and tested, and surprisingly adaptable to raising a family.

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It seemed like a happy home, even if it isn't as grandiose as the mansions that many Twitter employees can now afford to buy.

«I know it sounds kind of grandiose, but it seems like on Nov. 3 and 4, when the G20 meet, it is possible to have millions of people marching around the world, all demanding one thing.

Certainly von Däniken's ego seems to be of grandiose dimensions, for what greater establishment could a theorist seek to triumph over than a unified Judeo - Christian - scientific conspiracy?

Seeming to exalt finite mind to a grandiose idea that humanity has arrived to fullest knowledge of all.

In retrospect, these objectives seem overly ambitious, even grandiose, so far as their possible accomplishment in any one volume.

«He wanted to use the offense he'd hated to face» seems like a profound thought; «he needed quarterbacks» is less grandiose.

The man is nothing if not ambitious, but his grandiose pledges and claims about drawing inspiration from nature seem too good to be true.

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.

Applied to unfolding, real - time events, prediction seems too grandiose a term for what is often a sighting on radar or in the open fields and an exclamation of «Look, the storm has a hook!»

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.

While it may seem like a safe and simple look for such an event, if it is executed perfectly, then it's bound to turn out just as good as the more elaborate and grandiose looks.

Noisy, frenetic, grandiose and essentially a soap opera, director J.J. Abrams's second contribution to the franchise has everything, including romance: Never before have Capt. James T. Kirk and his Vulcan antagonist, Mr. Spock, seemed so very much in love.

He seems to intend this question to be grandiose, absurd, and sobering all at once.

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.

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.

The plan that Baby Doll comes up with seems a little too grandiose for its own good with such little payoff at times.

The dragons seem to be the only thing they got perfect, and each time they appear the film becomes wonderfully grandiose.

Reality never really intrudes on his romanticism, which comes to seem more gaga than grandiose — though I don't think Allen sees it that way.

Pixar's dynamic superhero flick seems to have prepped Bird for pacing and staging grandiose action.

The studio seems to have taken in feedback, though — Marvel has a villain problem — and Kaecilius is given additional layers that Ronan lacked, nuances to his evil scheming that result in an antagonist more interesting than grandiose plans to destroy the universe.

The visual effects are impressively crafted by director Doug Liman to make every trial and encounter seem horrifically real, from the first attack to later, more grandiose set - pieces.

And he associated the Vergara lawsuit with a string of» silver bullets» — «grandiose programs these last few years, from No Child Left Behind to Race to the Top» — that «seem all to have faltered.»

Always a restless innovator, Mr. Stella seems to have consciously aimed to blow away his audiences perennially with each new grandiose visual statement.

Perec's approach seems less grandiose, and still his contemplation of the street has an ascetic flavor.

His images seem to point towards the anticipation of a grandiose dance about to begin, on the verge of full realization, but proverbially «stays in the wings».

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.