Sentences with phrase «with grandiose»

When it died, I replaced it with the Grandiose Clock from Pier One.

The Victorian details, with grandiose architraves and wrought - iron balconies provide a dramatic backdrop to family life.

Create bold statements with the grandiose curves of a Blenheim WC

Needless to say she knew what she was talking about, but back then it was the old reality too, brokerages weren't luring seller's with grandiose promises or dreams of big savings etc., etc., — the high volume (full service but less time) brokerage concept hadn't seen the light of day, yet.

Kahn's attorney, Lee Nigen, clearly struggled to come up with a grandiose statement for publication, and settled on the following:

Their too busy building their own unquestionable institution with grandiose threats.

Bronstein uses architectural design and drawing to engage with the grandiose and imperial past of the built environment, often simulating and combining conflicting aesthetic styles.

The large canvases come with grandiose titles such as Wall of Light Sky, which leads one to report that the exhibition is generally overcast with brighter spells developing later.

I love Julian Schnabel's tenacious exploration of painting's parameters, but I've always wrestled with his grandiose sentimentality and unselfconsciously earnest approach that recalls the old - fashioned bravado of earlier generations, particularly the Abstract Expressionists and German postwar painters.

At the same time, The New Barbarians is tinged with the conceptual subversiveness that the yBas deliberately exploited: by transplanting their own faces onto the work, the couple align their practice and artistic personae with grandiose narratives of creation and evolution.

At the press preview, it was as thrilling as ever to step inside this imposing structure with its grandiose spaces and peculiar kind of mid-sixties glamour.

Beyond Good and Evil 2 is the spiritual successor to the cult classic, a prequel that will transport players into a profoundly multicultural world, capturing the spirit of the original with grandiose decors and intense dramas that play out across a vast universe.

Yet it's a fabulous meridian of an action - RPG, with a grandiose saga on one side and a fairy tale on the other.

Interspersed can be found many well - preserved colonial towns with grandiose squares and cobbled streets.

Its historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and cruisers will discover a main square with grandiose, European - styled buildings and a Triumph Arch.

As a travel destination, it is usually eclipsed by its more glamorous cousin Dubai, with its grandiose architecture and burgeoning travel industry.

«With its grandiose façade, excellent restaurants and facilities, Rashid's redesign includes everything from the colours to the shapes and the furniture to the open spaces, creating a sensual atmosphere where vacationing couples are immersed in our adults only playground during their entire stay.»

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

But there's a difference between experienced educators identifying real school needs and non-educator «entrepreneurs» swooping in with grandiose talk of «transforming» or «disrupting» education, using business methods to extract savings, or improving teaching (even replacing teachers!)

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.

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.

Rival captains Peg Leg Hastings, Cutlass Liz, and Black Bellamy, all outdo each other with grandiose entrances and chests full of booty.

I feel like there are some elements of John Williams and Bernard Hermann in there with his grandiose full symphony sound.

The Hurt character has grown up into a man filled with grandiose notions of family tradition and pride, and they are all a fantasy because his father considers him worthless and has written him out of the will.

In his last performance, Anton Yelchin plays a drug dealer with grandiose dreams and exclusively underage customers.

In a summer where Hollywood typically tries to wow us with grandiose special effects epics, it's refreshing to see such an old fashioned caper not only released amid the blockbusters, but a well - made one at that.

Last week, Tsum celebrated its 110th anniversary with a grandiose party featuring theme - inspired installations, dancers» performances and a vodka bar complete with ice sculptures and waiters serving generous lumps of caviar.

«They're people with a very fragile ego [which] they cover up with grandiose behavior.»

Is Arsenal a football club with grandiose ambition or a freaking charity case?

Aiden English started things off with his grandiose introduction, getting thunderous «Rusev Day» chants.

SSS arguments with grandiose conclusions are almost always bad, and this article is no exception.

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.

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.

Ryan is an okay guy with a grandiose sense of self only outmatched by a desire to stay current.

The more outreach you perform, the easier it will be to get others on board with your grandiose ambitions.

Not exact matches

Second, here's a big - bank CEO asking for the government to introduce yet another grandiose plan, complete with new regulations and requirements.

With their headsets clamped on and swivel chairs pushed in, they resembled grandiose telemarketers — one side dressed in spiffy red - and - white varsity jackets, the other in long - sleeve black crewnecks with white tiger logos on the chWith their headsets clamped on and swivel chairs pushed in, they resembled grandiose telemarketers — one side dressed in spiffy red - and - white varsity jackets, the other in long - sleeve black crewnecks with white tiger logos on the chwith white tiger logos on the chest.

At times, it feels like an absurd arms race, with colleges and universities building bigger stadiums and more grandiose practice facilities, then feeling the pressure to fill those seats.

But after a few years of rubbing elbows with tech bros and wannabe visionaries, I've found there's often more to learn from founders with ambitions less grandiose than changing the world.

IKEA took aim at Apple's habit of grandiose launch announcements and reverent product spots with this ad featuring the Swedish furniture firm's new product catalogue.

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

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

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.

Close students of the Supreme Court will tell you that they could see this coming: Compassion in Dying is only the first of many cases based on claims of autonomous individualism that the Court invited with its loose and grandiose Casey language.

I want to share something with you at the risk of sounding grandiose.

They tend to be page after page of sheer assertion, in grandiose United Nations style, with little argumentation to back it up.

If one intends to speak of a grandiose construction in terms of supernatural entities, with a schematic ordering of everything according to some superimposed pattern, metaphysics may very well be denied.

Learning sobriety: Loss of freedom (to drink in moderation) accepted; gi ~ ve and take of real personal relations replaces grandiose behavior; regains acceptance of family and friends; sense of humor replaces self - pity; learning to cope with anxious or depressed states.

The notion that they can be solved either by the market or by democracy, or a combination of the two, is fully competitive with some of the more grandiose socialist delusions.

These might be crudely represented by dabbling with witch - ceremonies and Hell's Angels, or musically suggested by the aggressive and grandiose aspects of the emerging hard rock sound.