Sentences with phrase «so grandiose»

There was just not enough room on our crowded planet for so grandiose an animal.

There are only 119 rooms at the Lind, but the complex is huge since everything they do is so grandiose.

In fact the cinematic event that Singer has recently finished polishing off is one so grandiose it might very... Continue reading X-Men: Days of Future Past

«The Disaster Artist» is about the nerve of creators who dare to put pieces of themselves up on the screen and how it takes some lack of self - awareness in order to tempt that hubris to do something so grandiose.

Everything looks so grandiose!

Ooorrrr your boy Mark caused a market reaction so grandiose in nature that sportsbooks will just need to start factoring me into their oddsmaking equations.

Mead calls this rather absurd scene — that of filming people watching film — the ultimate manifestation of Bridezilla culture: «an exercise in self - regard so grandiose that it has collapsed in upon itself.»

This will, Solzhenitsyn argues, can not find happiness in serving any abstraction, even one so grandiose as heaven on earth.

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I am so tired of all the grandiose startup speak — the founders who declare their genius before they ever even execute it.

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

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 the first point is so obviously a grandiose assumption:

But if we pass in advance this bitter judgment of uselessness that paralyzes and discourages us, if we are thus completely lacking in love for God, or if on the other hand we magnify our works and regard them as important and successful (Jesus, little Jesus, I have so wonderfully exalted you, but if I had attacked you in your defenselessness your shame would have been as great as your glory...), if we come before God decked out in the glory of these lofty, grandiose, and successful works, then... «Woe to you that are rich» (Luke 6:24), for the rich man today is the successful man.

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

One alcoholic, viewing in retrospect his grandiose isolation, said, «I felt so far removed from common garden - variety people that there wasn't any place for me.»

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

Both singers have a flair for the dramatic — Perry with her frivolous costumes and crazy visual effects and Kravitz with his grandiose»70s - rock - style anthems — so we should be set for a really fun show on Sunday night.

Violence and / or a long history of anti-social behaviour is strongly correlated with a cluster of negative indicators for active fatherhood including poor relationship / pro-social skills, grandiose expectations, a low frustration - threshold, substance misuse, a tendency to engage in negative forms of childrearing, and so on.

«There were so many misstatements of such a grandiose order of magnitude in there, that I think we» will respond later on.»

While it may sound grandiose, the concept is straightforward — implement evidence - based protocols, monitor your body's response so you can take control of your health, and improve your biochemistry by making your mind and body work together.

I am really in to the bell sleeves trend and how everything looks so much more grandiose and elegant when wearing it.

And so it is with Megamind, the movie's blue - faced, green - eyed, eggheaded title character, whose grandiose evil schemes usually come to naught and who loses every battle with his not entirely virtuous nemesis, Metro Man.

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.

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.

So does Gary Oldman, who showers his cast mates with salvoes of spit every time he issues a grandiose threat.

The moment Thorin finally decides to stop being a dick, in the middle of a battle where all his friends are getting slaughtered, is so protracted and grandiose that it's actually intensely irritating rather than, as I think was probably intended, suspenseful.

The claims were so fantastical and grandiose as to read like science fiction.

So everyone in the meeting is flat - footed, and in the course of the short meeting, they are expected to come up with some grandiose solution from the top of their heads.

«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.

The optima doesn't have any kind of grandiose predisposition to run with luxury brands so its kinda nice where it fits... not too pretentious.

You insist on clogging up the internet with your fake books and your lies and fake «awards» and fake publisher names (if you're so proud of being selfies, WHY DO YOU LIE???) and all the other schizophrenic, grandiose bullshit.

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.

It's grandiose, stubborn, a tad ridiculous, and oh so hilariously Catholic.

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.

Although not as grandiose today, Old Goa is still worth a visit, as it's home to the Basilica of Bom Jesus, the Se Cathedral, the Church and Convent of St Cajetan and the Church of St Francis of Assisi — all of which are still lavishly decorated, so make sure you take your camera.

I don't think I can take any large - scale work for a while, so I doubt I'll suddenly become director on some grandiose project.

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.

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

``... 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.»

Giuliani owes his grandiose pose to Soviet Realism, but even in a Polaroid over the elephant dung that he so hated in the Young British Artists.

Even if that is pompous and grandiose, so what?

So he's earned his success, not with some big, grandiose plan («It's the Uber of Chipotle»), but just one piece of sushi, one bite - size piece at a time.

Picasso, Matisse, Dali, Mondrian and more are all in the Tate's collection, so you might expect the Tate Britain gallery to get grandiose decorations for Christmas.

2 — There is no penalty for making bogus assertions or dishonest claims about their product's «benefits,» so each successive contention is more grandiose than the last.

So do a few dogmatic politicians (Gore) and airhead celebs in need of a cause sufficiently grandiose to validate their self - importance.

The program is so topically sans - cerebellum that it's obvious; one would suppose that any initiative that mirrors a grandiose, post-wartime infrastructure project with automobiles, coupled with the milking of any residual dot.com magic would be.

It is challenging to imagine ineptitude at such a grandiose scale, so the logical alternative is that they had been aware of the issue for a long time and voluntarily chose to hide this information from their investors and the public at large.

a.) Grandiosity: A grandiose judgment of a parent in which the child perceives himself or herself to be in an elevated status position in the family hierarchy above that held by the targeted - rejected parent, so that the child feels entitled to judge the parent;

The narcissistic personality maintains a grandiose self - perception that judges others as inferior, and with an air of haughty arrogance feels justified (entitled) in the contemptuous treatment of others who the narcissist judges to be unworthy, so that the fundamental inadequacy of the other person justifies the contempt and cruelty delivered by the narcissist.