Grandeur
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113 examples of Grandeur in a sentence
Here, I was quoting from the grand, Pharaonic African cultures of the Nile Valley civilizations; namely, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia, so as to imbue her with a stately, ironic, calm
grandeur.
And it didn't have much more
grandeur
than the term "foreman" or "overseer."
Reality and history have endowed that title with
grandeur.
At the end of "On the Origin of Species," Charles Darwin writes about the
grandeur
of life, and of endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful, and I like to think he could easily have been talking about a tapeworm that makes shrimp sociable or a wasp that takes cockroaches for walks.
Julius was a man who envisioned a Vatican that would be eternally relevant through
grandeur
and through beauty, and he was right.
But when I started this over 10 years ago, I didn't have a word for it, I didn't have any ambitious notions about it, I had no visions of
grandeur.
Yet, while the
grandeur
of the ice is evident, so, too, is its vulnerability.
And he said, "Speaking for myself, I can only say that the
grandeur
of the cosmos serves only to confirm a belief in the certainty of a creator."
And there, down the other side, and you get the same kind of
grandeur.
And I know this isn't a uniquely poet problem, but on days when the world feels especially big or especially impossible or especially full of grandeur, those are the days when I feel, "What do I possibly have to contribute to all of this?"
All that savage grandeur, the steely glinting hooves, the eruptions driven from the creature's mighty innards, breath stopped, heart stopped, nostrils madly flared, I didn't know if I wanted to break him, or be him.
So, what if ... A suggestion: that awe is not just to be found in the
grandeur.
So I'm currently working on a book, which plays with both senses of the word, as I explore some of my own ideas and inquiries in a visual display of rather peacock-like
grandeur.
Calling it a B-rated film, is too much of a compliment, and would lead to delusions of
grandeur.
The spirit of the Habsburgs
' grandeur
as well as the spirit of the Bavarian simplicity and straightforwardness influenced much those films.
One can see it as anti-war, because of the opening and closing scenes, and the folly of pretended grandeur, as how wonderful the cavalry men looked as they prepared for the great charge at Eylau, contrasted with its so horrible and disturbing conclusion, when we see the bloody uniforms, the boyish dead, etc--but chiefly, I see the film as about a moral man in an immoral society.
It's the opulence of Visconti's films, the
grandeur
of the ball scenes, that I find tedious, as they exchange individual clarity with mass precision.
He lacks the vision of what's important to everyone, and why this film had every element of feeling, of grandeur, and of humanity.
Even for those not drawn to such historical spectacles for their own sake, it's an astonishing feast for the eyes: the scene depicting the coup attempt of the Marquis is one of the most staggering evocations of physical space and
grandeur
in memory, and the battle scenes are memorable both in their scope and their immediacy.
The Big Trail was simultaneously shot in both 35mm and 70mm (Grandeur) versions, and both versions are shown on Fox Movie Channel from time to time, so it's easy to compare one with the other.
This ambitious film suffers most from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson's delusions of
grandeur.
That's right: just like in a sitcom, which is what this is, with the added 'bonus' of delusions of
grandeur
and a 110-minute running time.
If you enjoy inane cinematic fare that serves merely to worship the imagined
grandeur
of Hopalong Cassidy, then get this, but if you have more than two neurons, watch something else.
Though the movie may have been "true" to Lewis's book (in that the script was basically word-for-word, verbatim), it failed to capture any of the
grandeur
that would otherwise be associated with an epic story like this.
An Avent-garde nightmarish, extremely low-budget "film" that has delusions of
grandeur.
This film has all the size and
grandeur
of many of the great biblical epics of the 1950's and '60's.
But the struggle to achieve that victory is played in a celestial arena of sweeping vision and gripping
grandeur.
What makes it work so extremely well as it does, in all its simplicity and grandeur, is that its a truly great courtroom drama in the guise of a history lesson.
Beyond the human psychological profile of the film, it captures the harsh, expansive
grandeur
of nature better than almost any movie I've seen.
Well what can I say about this film, its an utterly gripping mob movie without having to indulge in the
grandeur
of a scorsese/de niro mob movie.
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