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Usage for grandiloquent


Four hundred years after his death, anyone with an interest in sounding grandiloquent can cull a telling phrase from one play or another: Liberals can mumble about “the winter of our discontent” and conservatives can bluster that “the lady doth protest ...

Vince Cable's sparse language in his Guardian interview about Britain having to adjust from being a "price-setter" to a "price-taker" is a world away from the old bulldog's grandiloquent offer of blood, toil, tears and sweat. But there is a parallel in ...

That might sound either grandiloquent, or setting the bar pretty low, depending on your point of view. But you should be in no doubt of the Coalition's commitment. Since coming to office there has been a quiet green revolution in Government. ...

... he learned about disappointing post-IPO performance from his tenure at TiVO and AskJeeves.com Titles such as Executive Chairman are funny, primarily because it implies the title Chairman of the Board isn't grandiloquent enough for the title holder. ...

As for Evans' Prospero, it is difficult to pay attention to his grandiloquent bloviating without being distracted by his patently false nose and excessively bushy eyebrows. Only pretty Lee Remick emerges looking like a real person – which, in turn, ...


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