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"grandeur" Definitions
  1. the quality of being great and impressive in appearance synonym splendour
  2. the importance or social status somebody has or thinks they have

889 Sentences With "grandeur"

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I think you've got delusions of grandeur and some actual grandeur, which is confusing.
Despite its flaws, Prometheus coasted to a small degree on grandeur—but there's no grandeur in Alien: Covenant, only more.
There is virtue in the creeping myrtle's lack of grandeur — and that antic, humble, low and resilient growth may be what makes grandeur possible in the first place.
Once a presidential intern with delusions of grandeur, Jonah has now achieved that grandeur, and doesn't have any idea what to do with it beyond his usual endless bragging.
Once they arrive, any delusions of grandeur are quickly abolished.
In fact, he's just doubling down on delusions of grandeur.
Recreating its history and grandeur will be quite a task.
Other stretches are spooky and full of blurred, ruined grandeur.
He has storybook grandeur, and an expansive sense of time.
Apparently it possessed the power to induce delusions of grandeur.
Compared with Mayfair's stately grandeur, Hampstead twinkles with village charm.
But when does such grandeur cross the line into parody?
Well, we've always known he suffers from delusions of grandeur.
Delusions of grandeur may be playing a part as well.
However, national grandeur and rewarding loyal construction are higher priorities.
The Lorillard buildings add dignity and grandeur to the city.
The grandeur of the presentation makes the piece seem oversold.
The expansive, glowing slow movement had lyrical grandeur without grandiosity.
"Redoubt" lacks the operatic grandeur some of Barney's fanboys prefer.
He likes the lights, the stage, the grandeur, the history.
Grandeur exudes from the building the moment you step inside.
Nakhane's music has an orchestral grandeur and a quicksilver soul.
Its tiny but macabre grandeur is stunningly rude and risqué.
Perhaps Sunnis could regain their honour and grandeur again, he says.
Yelling, carrying on, delusions of grandeur; these are my manic episodes.
What's also clear is that Canavero suffers from delusions of grandeur.
Its staircase and marble match the Opéra de Paris in grandeur.
These finds were like his pottery shards, elevated to cosmic grandeur.
It's the kind of cinematic grandeur we wish for every summer.
Hardly the world-defining grandeur it makes itself out to be.
For him, neither Abu Dhabi nor Dubai is about the grandeur.
Whereas the former celebrates nature's grandeur, the latter captures man's humility.
But the land would lose its grandeur without bison or bighorn.
There's value to being inspired and knocked out by the grandeur.
On the ground floor, Shake Shack dishes burgers amid the grandeur.
The two-story lobby only reaffirmed the intent of architectural grandeur.
Ms Miller has the qualifications: mystery, attack, grandeur, authority and beauty.
You don't come to Montreal to have an experience of grandeur.
Listen To Your Heart is out now on Delusions Of Grandeur.
Obviously. But extraordinary human feats often share this kind of grandeur.
She combined grandeur, musicality, wit, fervor and acumen to phenomenal degrees.
Paradoxically, this simplicity may be the primary expression of her grandeur.
Grumbling became a way of life, the response to lost grandeur.
Her repressed fury comes out in quiet touches of theatrical grandeur.
The room lacked the grandeur where the Watergate hearings were held.
Asia imitates the imitators, inflating conventional pop songs with pseudosymphonic grandeur.
The grandeur of his sentiment was frustrated by the gift itself.
And, of course, both promise to achieve national grandeur in perpetuity.
For grandeur, I suppose the purple walls will have to do.
Shooting for emotional grandeur via the medium of sixth form poetry.
He claims Tila has delusions of grandeur ... such as believing she's God.
There's a sense of grandeur to his designs that is very aspirational.
But generally, these can't compare to the grandeur of the president's setting.
Breath of the Wild, however, successfully conveys that feeling of inviting grandeur.
Delusions of grandeur, while often destructive, can also be so much fun.
Inside, the sheer volume of space recalls the grandeur of another century.
Then Rococo is so lavish; I love the grandeur of it all.
Now, the artist's latest takes on the series have evolved in grandeur.
Obata's paintings of the western landscape and grandeur of nature are majestic.
They're all highly stylized and elaborate, characterized by grandeur, pomp, and pageantry.
Given a context, fragments of statues regain some of their former grandeur.
Preoccupations For all their grandeur and euphoria, graduation ceremonies can be harrowing.
I wasn't surprised so much by her poverty as by her grandeur.
But each episode ends in grandeur, when Trump arrives to pass judgment.
Needless to say, the building projected an air of grandeur even outside.
Her character is a fool for love with delusions of grandeur. (metrograph.com)
Most astonishing is how the grandeur of these arches are instantly transformed.
They have the conviction and grandeur of Jesus's sermons in the desert.
The paintings have an unexpected gravity and grandeur that is almost religious.
The clarity and simplicity of Kurosawa's plot belie Seven Samurai's elemental grandeur.
The problem has always been finding new ways to live with grandeur.
They may think it has to be ambitious, perhaps touched with grandeur.
But the real magic and grandeur come from Martha Henry as Prospero.
There is something of the grandeur of landscapes, even mountains or peaks.
Its first works often aspired to, and reached, passionate arena-rock grandeur.
He loves military parades, the hugeness and grandeur, the pomp and circumstance.
The freestyle probably saved dressage, but it masks the sport's essential grandeur.
It lacks the grandeur even of something as awful as a war.
We also wanted our hackathon to reflect the grandeur of this year's Disrupt.
He captures the minimalist grandeur and brewing disquietude of locations throughout the world.
Their punishing grandeur sometimes overwhelmed the tiny room, hiding Ms. Lotz underneath them.
People with dreams of grandeur move to New York in search of fame.
Here are ways to experience the grandeur of the rock from the ground.
The true subject of Prince's grandest songs is the grandeur of Prince's songs.
Fleabag was a dubious narrator, a fabulist with delusions of grandeur and a
All the rooms have high ceilings which emphasize the grandeur of it all.
Longmen's grandeur lies partly in a refusal to reveal itself all at once.
"This small leaf represents the grandeur of the story of Napoleon," Osenat said.
He worked without apology, investing the homosexual with grandeur, masculinity, and enviable nobility.
His approach worked best in the finale, which had uncommon grandeur and nobility.
It lacked the grandeur to match Tchaikovsky's music, and offered nothing in compensation.
The music is denser and more intricate, conjuring symphonic grandeur alongside overdriven noise.
So this could have been an empty attempt at braggadocio — delusions of grandeur.
He used my former agency to advance his own delusional vision of grandeur.
They did so with grandeur and belief, reaching up to heaven, however imperfectly.
But these are small things, especially relative to the greater grandeur of the creation.
The biennial's artists manifest the grandeur of their home state in many unique ways.
But unlike that megahit, "School of Rock" doesn't strain to mix whimsy with grandeur.
Launching new, potentially lucrative, subscription services with all the grandeur of a hardware event.
Domineering responses to anxiety are associated with loss of empathy and delusions of grandeur.
Those occasions are generally more workmanlike, lacking the formality and grandeur that Trump prefers.
Growing bigger with each step, the mad-hatter is entertaining Napoleonic delusions of grandeur.
But the film's constant sense of grandeur stymies any wish for dutiful, escalatory plotting.
You might assume that they'd be all impersonal grandeur and showy virtuosity, but no.
I guess there had to be some outlet for Sony's classic wild-eyed grandeur.
"Heaven's Gate" manages to capture both the grandeur and unblinking brutality of the West.
The drawing is baroque grandeur in microminiature — like a Bach cantata sung by gnats.
We had no sense of grandeur or greatness because it was our first experience.
Great crimes have a grandeur to them, a dramatic sweep that compels our attention.
A tree in Riverfront Park competes for grandeur with Nashville's iconic At&T building.
They harbor delusions of grandeur that are in painfully comical contrast to their reality.
"I'm rooting for him to restore the grandeur of the better days," he said.
When you walk into the hotel, you're immediately stuck by a sense of grandeur.
Amid all the stateliness and grandeur, there's a sense of fatedness in The Crown.
It aims for epic grandeur, ethical clarity and also a measure of historical credibility.
We must protect them so future generations can experience the grandeur that he beheld.
Plus, director Steven Piet shoots Canadian landscapes with an eye for their empty grandeur.
Savoring the grandeur of such nomenclature, Mr. Chalamet's Jim grows into a fleeting, flamboyant assurance.
"Out there, in the humbling grandeur of nature, you're really free to wander," he says.
"Like countless painters before her, Swartz is motivated by the grandeur of nature," notes Teagle.
Just kidding, she blamed voters for being sexist and racist for not seeing her grandeur.
Kim wants grandeur but hidden under his bold posture he fears giving up nuclear deterrence.
Music may not offer a better mixture of grandeur and intimacy than the piano duo.
Beside the vertical grandeur of RuPaul's impressive six-footedness, Berle looked like a neglected accessory.
And the abandoned casino had that perfect Blade Runner-y combination of dinginess and grandeur.
The grandeur on display here is utterly ridiculous, but isn't that the essence of Robbie?
These aren't just visions of grandeur in a Sci-Fi novel; they're our reality now.
Atwater also brilliantly used ads and speeches to shrink the grandeur of the Democratic nominee.
It's so nice to see dogs acknowledging the grandeur of cats, and serving them appropriately.
It's a mesmerizing spectacle, straddling the line between grandeur and camp as only Cats can.
Even better, artisans were hard at work restoring its grandeur, paying meticulous attention to detail.
There were no false pretenses or illusions of grandeur in the details of her songwriting.
Unfortunately, the duo's predictions of grandeur fell short, and the Knicks lost by 29 points.
"First Man" falls short of that kind of grandeur, though not for lack of trying.
But there were shadows plucking at the grandeur, a sense of magnificence dissolving into dissonance.
But splurge on the 2,500-rupee Royal Grandeur ticket to see where the monarchs lived.
The "Ring" I remember was musically imperfect but visually awesome, with moments of stunning grandeur.
"The name of the city, world famous, lent the Tour a certain grandeur," he said.
I took dozens of pictures, but none of them truly captured its scope and grandeur.
At a broad level, the answer is that he was suffering from delusions of grandeur.
" Guo's aesthetic, she says, expresses "a visually deprived nation's pent-up longing for imperial grandeur.
Lover is a totally delighted demonstration of pop buoyancy and romantic grandeur, overdramatic and true.
Its baroque fixtures, worn carpet and dusty chandeliers recalled the dated grandeur of the film.
For all their majesty and grandeur, behind the scenes much of their infrastructure is crumbling.
White House Memo President Trump likes gold fixtures, marble tiles and the trappings of grandeur.
The only echoes of grandeur are the enormous windows and the ceiling high up overhead.
If it succeeded with enough grandeur, it might rise to the level of intentional camp.
The pretensions of Qatar's ruling Al Thani family to global grandeur have also vexed other rulers.
It was deliberately designed with grandeur and opulence in mind by Thomas Lamb and Harold Rambush.
I don't think it has the grandeur or elegance of gothic romanticism, it's not supposed to.
He effortlessly created stage hierarchies; specialized in effects of grandeur, scale and formality; and glorified women.
D'Amico says that behind the fanciful grandeur of Versace's designs was a tireless, practical work ethic.
Governors Ball Combines Sustainability With "Golden Grandeur" Theme  Come back every day at 8:30 a.m.
Its rooms are airy and pleasant, but plain—far from the grandeur of many private schools.
But delusions of francophile grandeur aside, Valentine's Day is special wherever you happen to find yourself.
The panacea of communism seduced him: the grandeur of the idea matched his vision of himself.
Like Roosevelt, Mr Macron dislikes cynicism and thinks that talk of grandeur can restore national confidence.
Thankfully, the album eschews symphonic grandeur, solemnity, and the other qualities that befuddle earnest rock seekers.
Whatever delusions of grandeur come up this week, we are reminded of the impermanence of luxury.
He stomps on delusions of grandeur, thwacking people over the head with pragmatism and forceful rhetoric.
The goal was "to respect the space, preserve the grandeur, preserve the spaciousness," Mr. Low said.
Although the living room was covered in dust, I could still see the home's former grandeur.
Hotel du Pont opened in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1913 and became internationally known for its grandeur.
The article, "The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st Century Agriculture," features photographs and video by George Steinmetz.
Virginia Beach is the latter, and its lack of grandeur is precisely why I love it.
But what stood out the most to me was the sheer grandeur of her wedding dress.
Yet, preserving nature's grandeur in National Parks and other federal lands has costs for surrounding communities.
The sprightly beginning of the Sanctus barely held together; the Dies Irae lacked grandeur and terror.
Stalin thought the city, marking its 2700th anniversary, lacked the grandeur required of a triumphant capital.
And Kirby's artwork is unparalleled in its ability to conjure grandeur with an economy of lines.
"She's Leaving Home" preserves all the orchestrated grandeur of "Eleanor Rigby," but its framework is emaciated.
Toward the end, a brief viola solo attained a moody grandeur worthy of the late Romantics.
I can recall being blown away, as a child, by the setting&aposs grandeur and beauty.
Despite Mr. Koch's lavish spending on such grandeur, friends and family say he was notoriously frugal.
Nippers lay sprawled at the foot of the bed in a careless bundle of regal grandeur.
The huge canvas, unstretched, and flat to the wall, has the grandeur of a Renaissance fresco.
The commissioners sought to emulate the grandeur of such European capitals as Paris, London and Rome.
"None of the grandeur and sweep of Neruda is found in Parra's house," Mr. MacShane wrote.
Narcissism— Self-obsession, delusions of grandeur, and looking down on everyone else, yet also wanting their attention.
The works are designed to be the opposite of the seriousness and grandeur of Soviet Modernist architecture.
Like many of the entries, the photograph's grandeur is a culmination of artistry, originality and technical excellence.
It perfectly fit the grandeur of the venue and the decadence of our vision for the wedding.
"If you're a cleaner on the Grandeur of the Seas, there are 20163 public bathrooms," he says.
And even those most invested in the Court's grandeur are finding it hard to defend its reality.
When you see something like the Moon up close, you can get a sense of that grandeur.
Part of what made Braveheart so mythical in Hollywood canon was the sheer grandeur of the production.
The shift in tone from "grandeur" to "degradation" is one of the registers running through this book.
Virtual reality's inherent grandeur is invention in story; a digression of theatre, not onscreen, but within screen.
Even the smaller scale works by Dunbar, no matter how silent and opaque, deliver an allegorical grandeur.
Miscalculations and visions of grandeur have defined this volatile region for millennia — current events are no exception.
In some ways, the tower, despite its extraordinary height, was designed to respect the station's architectural grandeur.
But Pruitt got an ornate refurbished desk comparable in grandeur to the one in the Oval Office.
During that time, she grew accustomed to the grandeur of Chinese hospitality and their curiosity about foreigners.
His ambitions aren't necessarily based on delusions of grandeur—the legalization opened up a potentially huge market.
Just a couple of syllables and the whole of the mononym's grandeur flashes across our consciousness. Solange.
The paintings are roughly accurate likenesses but staged to amplify the grandeur and importance of their sitters.
Average American soldiers showed more fortitude, religious devotion and grandeur than all the storybook heroes, he wrote.
The size and grandeur of backcountry huts are often linked to their popularity, and prices follow suit.
After the grandeur of the lobby, I was not expecting the contemporary minimalism of our Deluxe Room.
It was a performance as brief as my delusions of grandeur, yet no one seemed to mind.
And this city's monuments, with their beauty and historical grandeur, exert a pull like virtually no others.
For almost two decades, Italy's top division has had an air of faded grandeur, of inescapable decline.
Noticed By incorporating surprising hues and unfashionable blooms, these floral designers are leaving traditional Rococo grandeur behind.
"I'm sorry he has delusions of grandeur in thinking that everything revolves around him," the mayor said.
As presented here, Holmes harbored delusions of grandeur but couldn't cope with the messy realities of bioengineering.
You can't let the grandeur and the history get to you, or you'll freeze and accomplish nothing.
In 2019, the hotel completed a historic transformation, restoring the property to its original Spanish Colonial grandeur.
"If you're a cleaner on the Grandeur of the Seas, there are 35 public bathrooms," he says.
" The film, A. O. Scott wrote, "has the grandeur and authority of the best long-form nonfiction.
Even the solidly middle-class districts in a city of slowly fading grandeur are feeling the pinch.
What they have in common are delusions of personal grandeur and a tainted ascent to the presidency.
But this Bayreuth performance of Wagner's "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" from 1943 has both lightness and grandeur.
They also imbued the boxy, undistinguished structure with a sense of grandeur by introducing more architectural flourishes.
It's a regular car interior done extremely well, but not really a show of exuberance and grandeur.
But for "a house of this grandeur and this size" to be for sale is even rarer.
Krivak sets the grandeur of the mountain as a backdrop to the intimate drama of the heart.
Despite their grandeur, the Oscars — in all their pomp and circumstance and trailing gowns — are no exception.
A high number of serial killers are malignant narcissists — often the kind who suffer from delusions of grandeur.
"I don't have any delusions of grandeur of who I am when I go to show," she said.
The way the work lunges after a Wagnerian grandeur it can't quite grasp is alternately charming and trying.
YouTube has shifted under Donaldson's influence, with grandeur challenges and sponsor-fueled money giveaways becoming an overnight sensation.
In the latter, her tone was richer, by the end almost organ-like in its amplitude and grandeur.
It places the individual at the center of the world, and it appeals to our sense of grandeur.
She takes issue above all with anyone who seeks to diminish humankind's "natural grandeur" and capacity for excellence.
The DAU films are unique, however, for combining this spontaneity with the grandeur of a studio period piece.
The competition is basically the Olympics of coffee—no other stateside competition comes close in scope or grandeur.
Given a fresh start, might the United States reinvent the grandeur of lost empires, and get civilization right?
Really, though, the awfulness and grandeur that "American Honey" discovers is the product of Star's restless Emersonian consciousness.
To explore them is to witness a grandeur that inspires you, unlike many skyscrapers, which merely surprise you.
It's all drama and foreboding and grandeur, and you should absolutely watch every damn second of it below.
Bowie somehow captures both the grandeur and the loneliness of the universe in a little over five minutes.
Bradley Peterson's projections, which dominate the simple set, use images of nature to amplify the piece's sly grandeur.
Your line delivery in "Her Smell" is this bizarre combination of punk patois, Shakespearean grandeur and manic rambling.
Petty's detachment is notable in such company, as is his distaste for grandeur, and I'd suggest another term.
Mr. Steiger speaks in reverential tones of the poet Mary Oliver, her awe at the natural world's grandeur.
It's not easy to match the grandeur and history of these landmarks, but if anyone can, it's Eiko.
Colossal abstractions from the late 1960s occupy the museum's largest room, absorbing the viewer in their minimalist grandeur.
It was an ironic turn: this balletic child of revolution and Romanticism was now rescaled to imperial grandeur.
Mr. Gardiner never imposed grandeur on these scores, preferring to emphasize the lucidity afforded by a period orchestra.
What really gripped him was the grandeur and danger of structural ruin, and the people who occupied it.
Trump's impeachment trial promises to be a radical departure from the relatively calm grandeur of the high court.
This is shown by the poignant grandeur of her highly formal wedding pas de deux in Act III.
For all its architectural grandeur, it is really a noisy souk, a forum for gossip, ideas and haggling.
Such pretensions to reality-creating grandeur, Latour suggests, amount to little more than a vulgar, self-defeating cynicism.
Racing high over beautiful landscapes, catching epic sunrises, slicing through clouds, it's an exquisite way to appreciate nature's grandeur.
One does not leave Leaving Neverland without a sense of Jackson's onetime grandeur, and the remarkable power of nostalgia.
His own delusions of grandeur aside, Zimmerman has been in nothing but trouble since he took Trayvon Martin's life.
But as the grandeur of the adjacent residences increased, so did the quality of the service buildings on Waverly.
Scarif's placid waters and white sands seemed a pale imitation of Lah'mu's grandeur, but they would have to do.
"Nessun dorma," usually a showstopping aria, unfolded with all the grandeur of the background music at a shopping mall.
That church, with all its grandeur, nostalgia and contradiction, was a natural spiritual dwelling-place for George H.W. Bush.
Yet the projected grandeur of government gives all Chinese, as Pye put it, a right to pride and dignity.
They range from the playful grandeur of "Moon Pie" to intimately crafted objects only a few inches in diameter.
Meet Jane Sloan (Katie Stevens), a bright young thing with Kendall Jenner looks and delusions of Joan Didion grandeur.
They are lucky their daughter is going to be the future queen, but there are no delusions of grandeur.
Zhang conceives his action sequences with a grandeur that often makes the human characters secondary to the lavish design.
But underlying Musk's dreams of astro-grandeur, are some very basic logistics that still need to be worked out.
Trilobites Stargazers from around the globe gathered at the Grand Canyon this week to gander upon our galaxy's grandeur.
There is a simple, solid grandeur to these paintings that surprised me, having not encountered Hoyland's work until now.
Yet even in its decrepitude the house had an elegance and grandeur far beyond anything else on the block.
Natural grandeur is, of course, why many come to Maui, and I was going to experience my fair share.
He marvels at the grandeur of an old theater, where another extra-dimensional entity called "the Fireman" will reside.
Next on my list is the Southwest Chief — their suggestion — to see the Rocky Mountains in all their grandeur.
It can be easy to be caught up in the grandeur of the national stage while ignoring local politics.
Whatever one might say of Klimt his sense of the artful and grandeur in our efforts was never lacking.
Beneath the glitz and grandeur, beneath all of the theories of how the universe operates, you're still just you.
"I suppose it's the grandeur, the scale; it's heroic, it's also pure sculpture," he said then of the jet.
He tells The Creators Project he found a "forceful and dramatic medium" in textiles that proclaim authority and grandeur.
The right-hand theme had nobility and grandeur, but the left hand was a whirling wash of surging harmonies.
And a series of jersey-draped columns in saturated shades had all the grandeur knocked out, replaced by fluidity.
For me, they evoke the high society of turn -of-the-century Paris and the grandeur of those times.
Remnant is a reminder that there can be an unsettling grandeur in these kinds of locales, a lonely beauty.
Since taking office, Mr. Macron has put off many people by trying to recapture the grandeur of the presidency.
Arcade Fire arrived more than a decade ago, bringing grandeur and heart into indie rock, and also some arrogance.
"Look, I have no delusions of grandeur, I just have numbers," Mr. de Blasio said in a recent interview.
The standalone washbasin was arguably the only thing in the bathrooms that had any air of grandeur to it.
His delusions of grandeur make him vulnerable to big business, the government, and a con artist named Brent Skiles.
" Guo's aesthetic, one observer of Chinese fashion notes, expresses "a visually deprived nation's pent-up longing for imperial grandeur.
Your grandeur on the earth / Has nothing to do with your status / And everything to do with your character.
Zaki photographed the parks early in the morning, before any skaters had arrived, to better capture their austere grandeur.
American horses have always been a living symbol of our nation's history, its natural grandeur, and its deep compassion.
Some think "Vexations" is a rebellion against everything Péladan stood for, especially the Romantic grandeur of Richard Wagner's operas.
There's no grandeur to Mr. Dawson's Henry, and the whims of his mercurial mind feel less sudden than scripted.
The striking imagery is a reminder of the grandeur of our universe and our tiny little place in it all.
The entrance is sleek but understated and lacks the grandeur typically associated with expansive lobbies seen in ultra-luxury hotels.
Whenever Baudelaire uses the word in his writing, it is used to add grandeur to some manifestation, consideration, or fancy.
But Mr. Morris's "The Letter V," showing the dancers at their best, made a case — and space — for real grandeur.
A bloodline to the Romanovs is a shortcut to many heavy associations: lost grandeur, faded glory, a history of tragedy.
With opulence and grandeur, Khloé Kardashian, Kim Kardashian West and Kylie Jenner swapped their vacation wear for plush winter ensembles.
The Great Pyramid, looming alongside other large pyramids, is a towering achievement, remarkable for its simple beauty and colossal grandeur.
When you watch footage from this era even the most glamorous moments are stripped of their color, pop, and grandeur.
"Hallelujah" received a bewitching video directed by Abby Portner, invoking elements from Shakespeare's MacBeth to portray the song's crumbling grandeur.
Despite his delusions of grandeur, thinking he's done so wonderfully in all of them, the reality is he really hasn't.
Without Heroes, no U2, no Coldplay, no Arcade Fire, no blessed and absurd grandeur to get us through the prosaic.
The actor also suggests POTUS has delusions of grandeur ... and just wants his name on something rivaling China's famous landmark.
Indeed, "code-verse" is stunningly beautiful on début, with a chilling grandeur, but the sway of the spectacle wanes quickly.
Godin wanted his temple to have the ethos of communal unitary architecture and the grandeur of the Palace of Versailles.
It's long been rumored that Jordan kept Thomas off the 1992 Dream Team, which is based in truth and grandeur.
"He comes from a very poor milieu, he finds glory, grandeur, and then decadence and decline into hell," he added.
French Fifth-Republic presidents are fond of laying out sweeping visions of the world that appeal to the country's grandeur.
It was her funeral, specifically, that offended him; he loathed its grandeur, and the largeness of the grief it contained.
Echoing the grandeur of ancient Rome, the station was a shared democratic space that endowed all citizens with equal dignity.
When making paint choices, Fowler let his own sense of beauty and grandeur lead the way, sometimes to controversial ends.
She started out in a humble apartment in Eastern Europe; quite a bit different from the grandeur of Trump Tower.
The politics of grandeur, he shows, need not be the exclusive province of bullies and gangsters and crooks and clowns.
The impulse for fame becomes a meta visualization of personal grandeur, narcissistically and obsessively seeing oneself in one's own surroundings.
I thought there was a possibility of showing its magnificence or its grandeur and try to introduce it to people.
The other was his music's naïve grandeur—the tenderness at its core even when the beats and mood were frantic.
Without denying the grandeur of the Cubi sculptures, Kirili sees through their finished state to the intuitions that produced them.
What she lacks, as yet, is heroic grandeur, especially in adagio; and without it, "Swan Lake" misses the tragic dimension.
Mr. Taschen is restoring the Selznick home to its original grandeur and hopes Mr. Silverman can assist with the project.
But to see the historic grandeur of the marble courtroom where arguments are held, one must come to the scene.
Any grandeur these vehicles once had is long past, and some models were questionable the moment they left the factory.
Hotel Belleclaire is undergoing a partial exterior restoration, an undertaking which will help bring back much of its original grandeur.
Lined with outsize Georgian buildings, Henrietta Street has been, over the years, home to both tenement squalor and aristocratic grandeur.
Photographs of sinuous hills of the American northwest, and of Texan badlands and craggy fields in Scotland, resist heroic grandeur.
Museo is a film about our delusions of grandeur — on a national scale, an artistic scale, and a personal scale.
"She finds the angles and scale that reveal the grandeur of the ancient stone and modern steel," Mr. Brenson wrote.
Debrecen, Hungary's second-largest city, is a conservative town of faded beaux-arts grandeur close to the border with Romania.
In Week One, look for Sara Mearns's grandeur, Teresa Reichlen's elegant reach, Ashley Bouder's attack and Sterling Hyltin's witty grace.
Wagner embodied the nineteenth century, in all its grandeur and delusion; Nietzsche was the dynamic, destructive torchbearer of the twentieth.
"Cast your empire" encompasses the poles of grandeur and dejection, and the tension of reconciling them, that define Pylypchuk's aesthetic.
Once contact is made, Mr. Williams's score takes a Romantic turn, blending celestial wonder and the grandeur of a finale.
Certainly there is no lack of grandeur in Ms. Frisell's budget model, which took the stage again on Saturday afternoon.
Because I want to be reminded of the splendor of this beautiful and terrible life, and the grandeur of nature.
Thousands of people took in the bronzed, glacial grandeur of Philip Glass's "Akhnaten" at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening.
Critic's Notebook Ilya Khrzhanovsky's films "Degeneratsia" and "Natasha" are part of an undertaking whose eccentricity and grandeur border on folly.
Consider old Penn Station, a Beaux-Arts masterpiece of imposing grandeur and soaring arches that once straddled an entire block.
And while Taco Bell may not have any pretenses of grandeur or authenticity, it has taste down to a tee.
Far-left lawmakers said that they would boycott the event, as some accuse Mr. Macron of aspiring to Napoleonic grandeur.
Moving as one, they were somehow both flesh and steel; the quiet grandeur of the walks made time stand still.
How do I know, for example, that I am Roger Scruton and not David Cameron suffering from delusions of grandeur?
I seemed to have become aware, for the first time, of the grandeur of the landscape I'd just climbed through.
"Preserving the sweep and grandeur of a story like this requires bold, innovative thinking," Mr. Jenkins said in a statement.
However, it will likely need some work, along with Mr. Templer's styling chops, to restore it to its original grandeur.
The author, blind taste-testing Beyond and Impossible burgers side by side at Grandeur restaurant in Oakland, which serves both.
" Gia Kourlas wrote in The Times that she was "the complete package, a mixture of astonishing technique, grandeur and ease.
In July 2017, Mr. Trump witnessed the grandeur of a military parade at the annual Bastille Day celebration in Paris.
And she portrays a disconcertingly changeable, mordant yet (seemingly genuinely) hopeful Carmen, rising to stony grandeur in the final duet.
In what appears to be the general mode of Hawaiian magnificence, the turtle's grandeur is even grander for its casualness.
The Miami Symphony Orchestra, under the stewardship of Maestro Eduardo Marturet, provides the shimmering cinematic grandeur that has become Bacharach's trademark.
The 2016 FX Cruiser SVHO is Yamaha's top-of-the-line WaveRunner, and it's a crazy balance of power and grandeur.
The theme is "Vienna to Versailles," meant to evoke European grandeur in the gilded Grand Ballroom at the oceanfront Florida property.
Its bracing and freezing rawness, followed by its subtle tenderness, distills the wild, blustery, softly lit grandeur of the Far North.
In sedans, Hyundai is pushing sales of bigger, higher-margin models like the Azera, or Grandeur, and its Genesis luxury line.
The result is an album with room for full-band explosions, honest-to-God guitar solos, Latin warmth, and symphonic grandeur.
But then Karl watched his father, one of the world's foremost gem cutters, split them open to reveal their hidden grandeur.
But what I love about this recut — and what's missing from the official trailer — is the sense of spectacle and grandeur.
Booths lined the opposite wall, which was covered in medieval tapestries depicting epic battles, fabulous monsters, and scenes of royal grandeur.
Compte tenu de la grandeur du territoire, il aurait pu y avoir un levier de croissance formidable avec une politique migratoire.
Valerie understood that, like the diamonds in Marise's hair, this wasn't really decaying aristocratic grandeur but an arty imitation of it.
But the performance's modest DIY setup—eight rows of black folding chairs and two black-clothed tables—belied the room's grandeur.
They must find where to breathe, but also where to maintain momentum, in music full of emotional extremes and Romantic grandeur.
But it also exemplifies more specifically his lifelong, politically informed approach to depicting black Americans: with both grandeur and frank humanity.
"But I'm now back and I'm more determined than ever to replicate the home and bring it back to its grandeur."
There was more grandeur in her solo restatement of the opening theme than the whole Philharmonic had mustered at the start.
The building houses artwork from Latin America's colonial period, and it's flush with Baroque detailing, four-story columns, and subtle grandeur.
The plans called for a sculpture of equal grandeur, one that would highlight the terrace's decorative themes of love and nature.
Universal Paperclips demonstrates both the grandeur and the futility of this mentality by taking it as far as it can go.
No drone camera that slowly reveals the expanse of a textured landscape could ever quite capture the grandeur of being there.
These, I would learn, are all classic symptoms of bipolar disorder: the delusions of grandeur, the insomnia, the rapid cycling moods.
I mean, he's very bad, but his malevolence is laced with melancholy, and there is a ghastly grandeur to his ambition.
Mr. Gilbert and his players captured the dark side of the spirited Scherzo and brought energy and grandeur to the finale.
For sports enthusiasts, all of the grandeur associated with the event is overshadowed by what&aposs actually happening on the field.
John is the visionary among the Evangelists, his philosophical grandeur evident from the first verse ("In the beginning was the Word").
Space food must inspire and unite; it must reflect both the grandeur of the endeavor and the majesty of the surroundings.
As I was settling down, one thing became clear: Paris, in all of its sprawling grandeur, would take time to know.
His mother, for one, wondered why he did not commemorate the grandeur of the Old South — the plantation mansions and magnolias.
But Robinson's strength lies in making moments of grandeur quiver with candlelit intimacy and turning screeching electronics into whispering bummer jams.
"It's still really raw and rough," he said, comparing the area to Brooklyn's Red Hook neighborhood, with its faded shipyard grandeur.
And then you move on to grandeur, and you keep moving down the river to this celebratory, spiritual experience at the end.
Perhaps, though, those individual pieces with the emotive power of O'Connor and Storer contain enough grandeur to make up for the rest.
They're lo-fi haikus from a singular voice, charmingly irreverent in a world of games so heavily focused on pathos and grandeur.
From the front the facsimile of grandeur is complete, but the stairways smell like piss as he goes up to the top.
Belying his reputation as a rigid geometrician, Josef Albers's continuous, untrammeled awe at the grandeur of the pre-Columbian world is contagious.
It opened on Wednesday with works characterized by quiet, fragile grandeur, performed by the violinist Miranda Cuckson and the cellist Mariel Roberts.
He became distracted, they say, by delusions of imperial grandeur and in the process badly damaged institutions critical for a functioning democracy.
Two of his favorite artists are Wagner and Brecht; he combines the grandeur of the former with the grit of the latter.
It's a song of watchful possibility, set against synth-pop grandeur — though the "synth" part of that equation might be semi-negotiable.
Yet when we reached the corner of Eddy and Mason Streets, home of the Ambassador Hotel, I was struck by its grandeur.
Photographer George Steinmetz spent nearly a year traveling the country to capture that system, in all its scope, grandeur and dizzying scale.
One trouble with Spring for Music was that the inventiveness of the programs often got swallowed up in Carnegie's Gilded Age grandeur.
Its grandeur may also, unfortunately, draw attention away from Anne Spalter's painstaking covering of the entrance's outer wall with 160 charcoal drawings.
Mr. Jonez captures the gentle grandeur of Biggie (born Christopher Wallace), and Mr. Rose has Tupac's familiar seductive glint in his eye.
On the one hand, there's the sweetness of "Ely's Heartbeat," then on the other there's the sinister grandeur of the title track.
It's a love letter to the modest, treed-in landscape of Vermont, which Barclay wouldn't trade for all the grandeur of Montana.
Art Review A radiant Guggenheim exhibition grounds the proto-Minimalist abstract paintings of Josef Albers in the geometric grandeur of Mesoamerican monuments.
It is a rather wanton kaleidoscopic vision, intrinsically partial and fragmented that pays no homage to the grandeur of the composer's life.
The lobby, for that matter, has an earnestness and utility that other analogous spaces in the city tend to forfeit for grandeur.
Only Lou Dobbs, though, rises above the day-to-day news cycle to give Trump the historical grandeur he seems to crave.
Shostakovich's grim orchestration of Mussorgsky's four-part "Songs and Dances of Death" had massed solidity here, but little grandeur or dramatic variety.
And, for a wine of less grandeur, his 2015 sylvaner, a grape practically unknown in the United States, is floral and zesty.
On Sunday, Floyd was walking with his owner up the Grandeur Peak trail near Salt Lake City when the dog became fatigued.
"The sets on that show were just so…" she says back in the Refinery29 office, still overwhelmed by the Vancouver production's grandeur.
Each February, Black History Month subverts conventional narratives of American history by centering the grandeur and travails of the black freedom struggle.
This is the person who slips off the conformist materialism of commercial society and is both purified and enlarged by nature's grandeur.
Sculptures bookend the sofa, paintings and prints decorate the walls and the overall atmosphere is one of beauty, historic grandeur and repose.
The Bulls had just enough to outlast Miami for the last playoff spot, but they should not harbor any delusions of grandeur.
A few blocks away, the Customs House sprawled in neoclassical grandeur, a monument to the wealth that once fueled the West Indies.
Freed from the grip of the decayed British nation and British state, England could finally be done with its delusions of grandeur.
Yet that grandeur from the 1930s — when Goiânia was founded as an example of forward-looking cosmopolitanism in Brazil's hinterland — has faded.
It was the grandeur and hyperreality of Jewel I was most looking forward to when I first arrived for our Changi vacation.
The end—a matter of fifty pages—was symphonic in its slow, unfolding grandeur, sorrowful, understated, honest, and I was in tears.
What do you call a belligerent world leader who uses social media to bully enemies and feed his narcissistic delusions of grandeur?
I stepped into spare, medieval grandeur, a bare stone antechamber lined with palm trees in brass pots and faded, once-elegant carpets.
In the resort's gardens, more than 300,000 new tropical plants have helped restore the lush grandeur for which the hotel is known.
The opulent 20183 Beaux-Arts building that houses the Board of Trade in Rosario, Argentina's agricultural capital, evokes those days of grandeur.
If a person does appear, they are a tiny specter dwarfed by the grandeur of nature, and they are certainly not indigenous.
Danius understood the grandeur of her position and acted accordingly — that she was actually representing the outmost international symbol of Swedish culture.
London had become the center of the Western world, a place of grandeur and prosperity for some and anonymous suffering for others.
Eugenie's nuptials had much of the same pomp and pageantry as Harry's, but the grandeur for a "minor royal" attracted some criticism.
While that may mean it lacks some of the megalomaniacal grandeur of BioShock's Rapture, that also gives it a poignant relevance and immediacy.
It is a masterful painting that can produce a sense of grandeur in the mind that is both non-dialectical and network-centric.
The President's habit of touting the grandeur of forthcoming plans that are, in reality, a long way off, has often complicated the process.
WITH the faded grandeur of the Blackpool Tower jutting from the horizon down the street, Norman Hughes, a retired fireman, considers his options.
Between an older narrative of heroism and a more recent one of pointless slaughter lies an ocean of ambiguity, mingling grandeur with absurdity.
That his Xanadu of immense grandeur will grow to feel like a prison, all the more isolating for its towering cell walls. 2.
"  Montana "Grateful to God for the quiet beauty of our state, the grandeur of our mountains and the vastness of our rolling planes.
It came together seamlessly with Simpson, as ever, understated in his performance, allowing the quiet grandeur of his country lyricism to come through.
There's a whiff of the epic in the sweeping, whooshing chorus; a widescreen grandeur to the echo and flangers on Skip Marley's voice.
London, UK (CNN)Marvel at the royal grandeur of the halls that have been home to British kings and queens for 180 years.
" Solomon warned that modern Chinese leaders "use the trappings of imperial China" to "impress foreign officials with their grandeur and seriousness of purpose.
The second "three mountains high" takes the action of her verbs, but its passivity is a comedown from the grandeur it first suggested.
So let me tell you why I find the new iPhone instantly appealing, with as little hype and grandeur as I can muster.
The island's landscapes give shape to the characters' hopes and fears, as its grandeur becomes a refuge that endures and outlives human infamy.
A crumbling, melancholy monument to China's imperial grandeur, so imposing that it inspired the stubborn myth that it is visible from the moon.
Samuel Mbugua, director of Grandeur Africa, another company that trains farmers to grow hydroponic fodder, thinks it also helps avert conflict between herders.
Mr. Orban intends to kick out the National Gallery, restore the palace to its earlier grandeur and install himself in new offices nearby.
Piccard's achievement is notable not only because of the grandeur of the feat, but also because of the message that the feat conveys.
Such is the curious case with Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757–19233), the unknown bagatelle utopian architect and prolific proto-postmodern draftsman of grandeur.
Mr. Levit played the church-bell-like bass line with an unwavering rubato that led gradually to the grandeur of a vast cathedral.
Vestiges of its former grandeur remain throughout, but especially in the first-floor common area's burnished wood paneling, velvet sofas and soaring fireplaces.
As a person who was so broke he could not afford shoes before ringing his family's bell, Greg is intoxicated by the grandeur.
I don't know if "delusions of Sherlockian grandeur" is an official psychiatric diagnosis, but if it were, he'd be an excellent case study.
Amid chandeliers and faded grandeur, opt for a sugar-dusted ensaïmada (€1.40), a traditional snail-shaped Majorcan pastry, and a creamy almond horchata.
In our current moment of identity politics and multicultural Balkanization, Murray offers a vision of America in all its grandeur and maddening complexity.
Myths tend to celebrate grandeur and heroic superiority; parables tend to puncture the pretensions of superiority and celebrate humility and service to others.
The royal court's social calendar demanded clothes possessing 19th-century levels of grandeur: Vast crinoline gowns were prerequisites for debutante and ambassadorial balls.
It wasn't a useless stunt but a reminder that utility alone is a poor way to measure the grandeur of one man's spirit.
Senator Gary Hart's second presidential campaign began on April 13, 1987, with an idealistic oration amid the natural grandeur of Red Rocks, Colo.
Lichtenheld's cartoony oil-pastel illustrations are radiant and capture the grandeur of the construction site as well as the trucks' determination and pride.
Positioned bang in the heart of Vienna, opposite the opera, the five-star hotel is a bastion of imperial grandeur and traditional luxury.
This week we'll tag along with a few different space missions to Jupiter, taking its grandeur from all angles and in unprecedented detail.
Sublimity, however, is what has been avoided; and the grandeur of ballet, as many old works still reveal, was one of its glories.
The carved rock faces of Petra were a testament to the civilization&aposs prosperity and grandeur that has lasted to the present day.
It's the most dramatic-looking newcomer this season, with more than 300 seats; such grandeur is typical of the owners, Tao Group Hospitality.
Her L.G.B.T. admirers seem to respond to the way her songs evoke, with theatrical grandeur, the covert emotions of someone outside the mainstream.
In part, the photo knocks the grandeur of this building down a few pegs, suggesting, perhaps, the notion of small (or weak) government.
Here, she and experimental pop producer John Congleton add weird instruments and electronic manipulations, making the music more echoey without undercutting its grandeur.
By superimposing his photographs of the ruins onto the postcard images, however, Maurer does help highlight the grandeur that once existed at these resorts.
Macron has sharply reduced his interactions with the media since his election, wanting to restore old-fashioned grandeur to the role, his aides say.
Although William and Kate married in the grandeur of Westminster Abbey, "he would have liked to have married at St. George's Chapel," Vickers says.
It got me thinking about why certain depressing operas take on a tragic grandeur that buoys you, while other comparably dark ones do not.
There are times when the play risked going over the top, but its pathos and grace fully grounded the biblical grandeur of its plot.
Brother Julius Schacknow, as his followers knew him, was a serial sexual abuser with delusions of grandeur who was hellbent on ending the world.
Every company in Silicon Valley will tell you, with operatic grandeur, that it aims to change the world and make it a better place.
PHILIP RUSSELLAustin, Texas The tendency for grandeur and craving for status seem to be a permanent phenomenon in shipping ("The other handover", July 15th).
But neither comic-book fatigue nor X-Men familiarity can stop this latest installment from delivering action and pathos with a touch of grandeur.
As a seasoned public speaker and performance poet, Taylor normally projects a sense of vivid confidence — the kind of grandeur that fills a room.
He's held a position as one of music's leading purveyors of grandeur since 2003, the year he released Dead Cities, Red Seas, & Lost Ghosts.
And he laces it with an almost expressionless grandeur as protagonist Robert Laing in High-Rise, Ben Wheatley's adaptation of J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel.
At first the wedding was all planned out, visions of grandeur, but everything ended up being too expensive and neither of them had money.
The news conference itself, held in the grandeur of the East Room of the White House, was a striking contrast of tone and style.
Crucial to this shift was the decision to drop Guedes, with his rhetorical grandeur, and speak through Soares, who lacks glamour of any kind.
It is hard not to be impressed by Jaeggy's own spiritual and aesthetic grandeur, which casts her stories in such a compellingly cool light.
This score shows Rossini balancing the florid Italianate bel canto style with pioneering dramatic grandeur, setting the stage for the French grand opera era.
It had Byzantine, Egyptian, Spanish Colonial and Roman architectural influences and, at 90 years old, it truly exemplifies the grandeur of early Art Deco.
Riverdale digs into these illusions of grandeur with such relish that even when the plot becomes hard to believe, it's still impossible to resist.
Some were designed with jet propulsion mechanisms while others were designed to function in all climates — but all were created with grandeur in mind.
Collectively, they tell a story that is part political thriller and part courtroom drama, with moments of Shakespearean grandeur and swerves into stumblebum comedy.
AMSTERDAM — When Friedrich Nietzsche turned his pen on his onetime friend, Richard Wagner, his overarching critique was that grandeur shouldn't be mistaken for depth.
The "New Met" opened with the lavish premiere of Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra," tailored to Ms. Price's radiant voice and prima donna grandeur.
On her first day, as Jones made her way through the Salk's campus to meet with the president, she was dazzled by its grandeur.
He set out to produce hits and create a Canadian brand, but his dreams of grandeur were set against a backdrop of personal struggles.
The grandeur was immediately evident, from the Art Deco curios to the classy black and white tiled floors, all illuminated by decorous period lamps. 
The soundtrack of the commuter's daily life acquired a purple grandeur, with Bowie, Labelle and Madonna assuming the velvet cloaks of Verdi and Puccini.
It capped off a thrilling trip through the Irish countryside that seemed almost like a folktale — nearly storybook-like in its grandeur and beauty.
A director turned playwright based in Tuscany, Mr. Massini, 43, is known for finding tragic grandeur in an eclectic array of real-life subjects.
The grandeur of its beauty and space seem to stir some nobler instinct in the name of preserving nature and advancing the common good.
" The words pack their own punch; paired with Mr. Adams's score, they take on the grandeur and might of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries.
There, surrounded by the decaying grandeur of the ancient city, he said, he nearly broke down after hearing the case of a Nigerian woman.
"Miss Caldwell flounces onto the stage like a sparrow with illusions of grandeur," Clive Barnes wrote in his review in The New York Times.
Chappel was racing against time and the changes wrought by people; Balke painted images of relatively timeless nature in all its grandeur and indifference.
When Nixon visited Egypt in 21996, he and President Anwar el-Sadat rode by train to Alexandria's ancient ruins to observe their faded grandeur.
What it offers—and what no pocket-sized company, however edgy, can match—is an acoustical environment commensurate with the grandeur of the form.
It was extraordinary to have this poetic grandeur replicated by little Augustus, so small, so young, and on my own doorstep, so to speak.
As art installations go, "The Mechanics of History" was seemingly at odds with the Panthéon's architectural grandeur (Neo-Classicism as stone-and-marble opera).
Crozes-Hermitage has suffered, often rightly, in the shadow of Hermitage, a wine of greatness and grandeur grown on the magnificent hill called Hermitage.
I'm a devout cradle Catholic, so the grandeur of the structure and the lessons depicted within it came down on me like an ingot.
On a postcard of earthrise as seen from the moon, though it's still sort of funny, the same drawing bears witness to modernity's grandeur.
The addition of the "skeptical" key is particularly clever: it demolishes the grandeur that artists can acquire thanks to worshipful scholarship and market hype.
In a speech to MPs and senators on July 123rd in the gilded Palace of Versailles, he referred five times to the "grandeur" of France.
The collection had the infectious energy and cheer of a Pixar swap shop, and no pretensions to grandeur (which has a worth of its own).
Needless to say, Ivory Coast over the past two decades since his death has seen neither grandeur, peace, nor much in the way of prosperity.
The composition, therefore, quickly slips from the grandeur of the impassive, Apollonian urns into a stylized, rippling sea before its charred descent into the irrational.
So while you might associate Kardashian West with over-the-top opulence and grandeur, girl also knows a good beauty bargain when she sees one.
And it is, in turn, capable of division into traits of its own, such as impulsive hostility, emotional withdrawal, conceptual disorganisation and delusions of grandeur.
Delusions of grandeur, extreme issues with narcissism — none of which would be a talking point if we weren't speaking about the man leading our country.
As expected, there's speculation on the deeper meaning, what the timing represents, the viral commentary, and even DIYs to attempt a shoot of similar grandeur.
It was then that he made the boldest of gambles; the move which would make him famous, and see him fulfill his dreams of grandeur.
Among mainstream comedy filmmakers, Phillips is easily the most technically assured, giving his scenes a widescreen grandeur with a dynamic color palette and striking framing.
It gave me both sort of sports fantasies: The tactical challenge of play calling mixed with the grandeur of catching that impossibly long hail mary.
" He added ... "The timing was excellent as the property has already begun to transform back to its original grandeur and has never looked more impressive.
At the moment, ASASSN-15lh remains a perplexing mystery, with an outsized grandeur that seems to strain against the hallowed physical rules of the universe.
Even with the visual grandeur, however, there's an underlying sense that Marvel isn't entirely sure audiences are ready for the far-out concepts it's introducing.
Providing medicine -- and emotion Gold is known as a color of grandeur and extravagance, and as a result, we are psychologically drawn to the color.
Blackbird has also undertaken a painstaking renovation of what was once the popular Younkers Tea Room restaurant on the sixth floor to its 1920s grandeur.
What he catches so well is the desperation behind the grandeur, the tragicomic spectacle of an institution, and a people, laboring to believe in itself.
For this program, the Graham company celebrates the work's 75th anniversary, showcasing Graham's skill at physicalizing both domestic drama and social tensions with stoic grandeur.
Caviar generously has four different color options for this: green ("Prosperity," shown above, $1,550), black ("Confidence," $1,440), dark chocolate ("Grandeur," $1,400), and pink ("Delicious," $1,550).
There's grace and grandeur in a shot of men working on a mist-wreathed train track, but also a sense of how destiny becomes manifest.
The ceremony itself packed more grandeur than an episode of The Crown, but the beginning of the evening reception looked like a James Bond movie.
Most Mall museums are squat blocks, rooted in neo-Classical tradition: Timeless grandeur and stability are their messages, and you barely look at them twice.
For much of that time, they have operated in a vacuum, isolated both geographically and by the grandeur of their ideas about transforming the game.
Giant whale-shaped starships litter the sky, beaming in and out of the atmosphere at a consistent rate, teasing me with their promise of grandeur.
Giant whale-shaped starships litter the sky, beaming in and out of the atmosphere at a consistent rate, teasing me with their promise of grandeur.
It was clear that, in the long arc of this impressively cohesive program, his soft-spokenness had been building toward a climax of deafening grandeur.
The works of painters Joan Mitchell and Jean-Paul Riopelle foster a dialectic between pure gestural abstraction and lyrical suggestions of the grandeur of nature.
The best Vivier performances capture his delirious, jeweled grandeur but also his modesty — the earnest intensity of his desire to communicate, even through nonsense syllables.
Standing in the central plaza, it's impossible not to feel awe-struck and even slightly overwhelmed by its sheer monumentality, its grandeur and its scope.
While Mr. Xi cannot yet match Mao's grandeur, he has borrowed from Mao's playbook in his quest to be seen as a singular, transformative force.
As we stretched upward toward the sky and down to the cool earth, taking in the grandeur of our surroundings, we succumbed to profound relaxation.
The Lynx lodge has a history steeped in grandeur, but it's now mainly a sometime rental hall and watering hole for an ensemble of castoffs.
An equally illuminating show at the museum grounds the proto-Minimalist abstract paintings of Josef Albers in the geometric grandeur of Mesoamerican monuments in Mexico.
" Kim attended a boarding school in Berne between 1998 and 2000; classmates described him as "dangerous, unpredictable, prone to violence, and with delusions of grandeur.
"Burnt Sugar" fits right into "Look Now," which recalls the grandeur of those highly arranged, early '60s pop hits written by artists like you, Carole.
WADADA LEO SMITH "America's National Parks" (Cuneiform) The grandeur of a natural vista poses just one facet of this 100-minute suite by this trumpeter.
While the spartan locale will lack the grandeur of the previous two summits, Moon appears to have secured an important propaganda victory of his own.
Facebook could have spent the past two years quietly building up its security, content moderation, and fused messaging systems without bombast or delusions of grandeur.
Delusions of Grandeur, extreme issues of narcissism -- none of which would be a talking point if we weren't speaking about the man leading our country.
Their experience of the sublime supported the idea of American exceptionalism, the marveling crowds newly assured of the singular grandeur and importance of their nation.
The space had been completely stripped of its original details, and Mabille saw an opportunity to recreate its lost grandeur, but through a whimsical lens.
A well-worn wooden bar found in Berlin, and twinkling lights that resemble those of traditional Sicilian summer festivals, tone down the grandeur a bit.
And Marshmello gives Khalid a sturdier framework than he's accustomed to, which might sandpaper down his appealing rough edges, but also pushes him toward grandeur.
It was an undertaking whose eccentricity and grandeur bordered on folly: a social experiment disguised as an art project, or perhaps the other way around.
While the Paparoa Track is the first new Great Walk in 25 years, it's not as if the South Island is lacking in natural grandeur.
Many Alaskans consider their unique lifestyle and the rugged grandeur of their state worth at least twice the cost of living in the Lower 4.
Delusions of Grandeur, extreme issues of narcissism - none of which would be a talking point if we weren't speaking about the man leading our country.
"Iolanta," a fairy tale about a princess whose blindness is cured by love, is a tricky piece, quivering between tender delicacy and robustly tuneful grandeur.
Every time I walked by the booth, the viewing area was filled with fairgoers, frozen by the epic tableaux and lost in their cryptic grandeur.
"There's this delusion of grandeur people have that they're going to open a restaurant and drink wine with their friends on a Thursday night," Neyrey said.
It may seem as if the Model 3 hype has stolen away the sheen from its more substantial sports sedan, the original symbol of Tesla grandeur.
Their joy was reflected in the face of Marci Clark, who stood below them last week, expounding on the grandeur of the 91-year-old room.
The Metropol's grandeur has been tarnished by time, but it's still just as fascinating, what with all the glass liberty domes, marble fountains, and golden stucco.
He thinks he is truly going to save the world, and that kind of delusions of grandeur are a lot of fun to get to play.
Suddenly other clubs were rivalling us and, no matter how tightly we clung to our faded grandeur, we could no longer claim to be the best.
In his gritty images, all taken with an iPhone, Markov documents ordinary life in small towns far removed from the grandeur of the country's buzzing metropolises.
Featuring dominatrix catsuits, spiked leather jackets, and devil-horned hair, the sparse, high-contrast black and white convey grandeur, class, and charisma — 2NE1's indelible presence.
There are many, many ways to get at a sense of decaying grandeur without directly copying a style that From Software has effectively laid claim to.
Meandering through the story of an ever-changing self, these selfies question ideas of grandeur, of being an icon, and our relationship to our constructed environments.
The all-encompassing grandeur of Norma's music, which ranges from the bel-canto radiance of "Casta diva" to steely, Isolde-like blasts, evokes a matriarchal age.
Quite a few factors affect this otherwise subliminal decision: their location, their proximity to the entrance of a building, their lighting, their grandeur, their odor, etc.
The whole journey comes to a close with an original ballad titled "The Bond," which slowly builds from a chiming soliloquy to a sweeping, bittersweet grandeur.
Small tapestries in cotton, linen, and synthetic threads, by the Russian Zhenya Machneva, depict obsolete factories, abandoned heroic statuary, and other remnants of lost Soviet grandeur.
"Half the Battle," featuring Mr. Rosenwinkel, is a shadow-realm prowl suspenseful in its harmonic irresolution, an excellent disquisition on the dark grandeur of the unknown.
He seemed to embody the success and grandeur that so many of his followers felt was missing from their own lives — and from the country itself.
But despite their occasional populism, Daft Punk have always practiced admirable restraint, ballasting the grandeur of the original with a sinister earthiness in the main motif.
For every artwork depicting the vibrant grandeur of pre-Columbian Tenochtitlan, there's a sexed-up Mexica priestess with a ski-slope nose and enviable Restylane pout.
They didn't have a sprawling grandeur, but their honeycomb pattern arrangement, a homage to the Royer family tradition of beekeeping, was still a sight to see.
Even when wailing with grief over the pointless killing of her husband ("My Man's Gone Now"), she shows the tragic grandeur of this powerful character. (Ms.
She has the operatic grandeur of public tragedy (she took over Versace after the murder of her brother, Gianni) and personal struggles (the drugs, the rehab).
Mr. Miller's films depicted winter sports with grandeur, beauty and a mischievous sense of fun that attracted viewers who had never set foot on a slope.
The city is the picture of faded colonial grandeur: colorful facades appear desaturated by time and sunshine, and tangled telephone wires run over sloping cobblestone streets.
Maybe the air of wildness came from the scale, I thought, the very sense of earthly grandeur aroused as we drove along in our tiny car.
Many assignments from Mr. Marino followed, using Laotian motifs and styles of weaving (brocades, ikat, tapestry) that are well-suited to the grandeur of luxe interiors.
Nightwish have always had a talent for orchestral crescendos but post-solo build up and subsequent horn section explosion here is on another level of grandeur.
A simple sleek, dark foyer leads to the dramatic, square Bar Room, seating 29494, that captures some of the soaring grandeur of the old Four Seasons.
Victor Williams, familiar as Deacon Palmer to viewers of "The King of Queens," brings sitcom ease to Eddie's wheedling enthusiasm, but also an almost tragic grandeur.
What the opera does have is Mr. Eotvos's music, a troubled, trippy texture that can be suddenly charged with anxiety or grandeur without ever feeling clotted.
In the 2254s and '21109s, Forsythe changed ballet as we knew it, stripping it of grandeur and giving it a thrilling, starkly modern, almost dangerous edge.
"Their movie is quiet, intimate and intense, but touched with a breath of epic grandeur," A.O. Scott wrote in his review for The New York Times.
Countering the explicit rationality of the Enlightenment and the restraint of Neo-Classicism, Romantics embraced the imagination, emotion, the grandeur of nature and an idealized nostalgia.
But Ms. Close deploys the declarative physical vocabulary of silent-movie acting to convey a genuine grandeur of spirit and an equally outsize force of will.
They called for his impeachment, saying he had overstepped his constitutional bounds with delusions of grandeur, blocked the will of the people and destroyed Italian democracy.
Distance gave a grandeur to the emotions, expanded the dwindling self, expanded its purchase, by imbuing each desire with an ancestry, a mystery, a primitive significance.
As the French mourn their past (or imagined) grandeur, the resentful among them have turned their backs on Europe and shut themselves off from the world.
I found the staff to be more than ready to make up for any lack of grandeur at check-in with friendly, signature New Orleans service.
Mr. Lake was a seminal figure in the movement to Europeanize rock 'n' roll by blending it with classical music and presenting it with symphonic grandeur.
She married Mr. Dickerson in 21966, and he established himself in Washington society by snapping up Merrywood, restoring its grandeur and filling it with European antiques.
The movie, meanwhile, expands the schoolbook chronicle of the conquest of space beyond the usual heroes, restoring some of its idealism and grandeur in the process.
While the Courtyard doesn't have the high-ceiling grandeur of a hotel such as the Conando, there is definitely a sense of excitement in the air.
Russia gets that Ankara believes that its power and status demands that the world should listen when it speaks, and panders to Turkish delusions of grandeur.
Steven Beshear of Kentucky, a champion of Obamacare, tried to make a virtue of the difference in grandeur by having it take place in a diner.
That plan backfired in spectacular fashion, with voters overwhelmingly supporting a name that failed to capture the grandeur that officials were probably looking for: Boaty McBoatface.
They summon a memory from my childhood of stepping out of church into the sparkling New England afternoon, awed by the grace and grandeur of existence.
These are the sort of acts you and I perform daily, are they not, and in this circumstance resides a certain pettiness, but also a grandeur.
And the question Stephen Colbert wants to know in The Late Show clip above, is: Who has the biggest delusion of their own grandeur in real life?
But the author's Wall Street Journal day job bled through, sapping the book of emotion and preventing it from seizing the grandeur of the tale's climactic moments.
Mary Shelley wrote the character named the Monster in her 1818 novel Frankenstein, as the product of the delusions of grandeur of a scientist named Victor Frankenstein.
Shot in classic widescreen, Mr Cooper's film captures both the grandeur of nature and the smallness of these few characters, emphasising their powerlessness over the natural world.
McMahon — with dreams of grandeur and "finishing" the war — decides he actually needs 40,000 more troops so he can go after Taliban strongholds and eradicate the counterinsurgency.
Lynch, from the world of film and visual art, gives the series an unusual grandeur, while Frost makes sure it coheres in ways we expect from television.
Like his father, Kim Jong Un is a terrible tyrant that pursues his own grandeur at the expense of his people who starve and languish in isolation.
It lends grandeur and dignity to their doings, and allows them to look down on the notionally more successful societies of the West as doomed and decadent.
She may well represent love; her duet with Mr. Gomes has both a grandeur and an intimacy that set it apart from the rest of this ballet.
But in performance, Ms. Ferreira is a chameleon known for her probing, psychologically layered portrayals and the sweeping grandeur of her singing, not to mention her energy.
In an era when "tech" usually means something obsoleted within a few years, there is a certain grandeur to projects with this kind of scale and lifespan.
They restored the space to its late 2000th-century grandeur, and added many modern amenities, like a sixth-floor penthouse, a screening room and a lap pool.
She loads the table with whole pineapples for Georgian grandeur, adding in little bowls of chocolates, Florentines and festive sweets such as marrons glacés and crystallized ginger.
Ezekiel sees himself as the fraud that his Savior captor makes him out to be: He's a former zookeeper with delusions of grandeur and one obedient tiger.
It stands alongside other structures of similar size and grandeur between Fifth and Madison Avenues, a quick stroll from Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Its sprawling grounds and cavernous rooms evoke ancient aristocratic privilege, but by the late 1940s, when "The Little Stranger" takes place, that grandeur has begun to fade.
The real magic is how its characters see grandeur in the mundane, like the Shamroxx employees holding medieval jousts atop shopping carts in the restaurant parking lot.
The episodes I've watched have a grandeur that even the movie didn't, a vastness and a sense of awe owing to the wider locations and serialized pace.
Amid all the scenery-chewing, though, Bagatsing proves to be a saving grace with a sincere, rousing performance that adds some grandeur to this bare-bones production.
"World Gone By," the elegiac 2015 novel that preceded this one, had a tragic grandeur that is never approached by this less credible, more action-oriented thriller.
Under his leadership, we've become nothing more than a big, self-interested bully — a bully with delusions of grandeur, who isn't nearly as tough as he thinks.
They emerged into the imposing grandeur of an empty courtroom, where Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Thurgood Marshall sat for years before being elevated to the Supreme Court.
And with (Ted) Kennedy challenging Carter, one of the the big things was the return of the Kennedy grandeur, like we saw in the 'Jackie O' movie.
Entitled Blood and Opulence, it was unisex and featured greatcoats and gowns with the grandeur of the Russian Revolution, brought down to earth by blood and mud.
Upper Nyack has the leafiest lots and the largest houses, particularly along the river, which is dotted with estates that evoke the grandeur of France's Loire Valley.
From one perspective, Obama's legacy serves as both a reflecting pool of both the grandeur and travails of American history, especially its tumultuous journey from slavery to freedom.
Her parents are equally stunned by this proximity to grandeur, and are happy to let their 17-year-old traipse around on yachts and attend drug-fueled parties.
For all the abnegation suggested by the self-muffling techniques Ms. Fure demands from her players, there is an old-fashioned, richly satisfying grandeur to the resulting music.
Rostam remains on good terms with the band—he contributed to two songs here—but his exit marks a clean break from the purposeful grandeur of Modern Vampires.
It's the hierarchy and grandeur of the Catholic church and the repressed sexuality of its history, with a matching clutch and bedazzled miter on top for good measure.
The building's Jacobean revival architecture recalls the grandeur of the era when it served as a hub for black businesses and the site of a black social club.
"Perusing the impressive list of past Hasty Pudding Men Of The Year, I'm simultaneously struck with intense delusions of grandeur and mild waves of humility," said Gordon-Levitt.
In them we should not only see natural and historical monuments, the grandeur of the outdoors and the history of our nation — we should also clearly see ourselves.
His songwriting casually trespasses the blurry line between serious darkness and morbid humour, mixing feelings of death, delusion, and grandeur with an impending sense that nothing really matters.
In the crucial passage a naive young aristocrat, Charles Egremont, observes that Britain, then at the height of her imperial grandeur, is the "greatest nation that ever existed".
As majority leader, Mr. Schumer would join a line whose most famous and accomplished alumnus was Lyndon B. Johnson, a man of legendary wiles, pettiness, grandeur and platitudery.
He played to Trump's admiration for the military and grandeur by inviting him to Paris for the annual July 14 celebrations and dining him at the Eiffel Tower.
The presence of veterans well into their late 30s served as a painful reminder of what Milan once was, infusing the club with an air of faded grandeur.
That's not to say that Apple should be wholly responsible for coding education, just to preempt Silicon Valley's occasional delusions of grandeur about apps solving major world problems.
In The Same Room captures that odd grandeur in a more straightforward fashion, with Holter behind the piano, minimal backup, and a microphones in front of it all.
Inspired by the high drama of Mexican Catholic iconography and the grandeur of fashion photography, Chucho takes us inside the curious netherworld where he feels most at ease.
The Fifth had more of a level head, with a refreshing emphasis on rhythmic ingenuity over grandeur that made for a wonderfully startling turn into the jubilant finale.
The film was directed by Lauren Greenfield, whose previous documentaries "The Queen of Versailles" and "Generation Wealth" are wry examinations of a fading aristocracy's lingering delusions of grandeur.
Every neighborhood has its own distinct feel, from the moody medieval Gothic Quarter to the cozy casualness of seaside Barceloneta, and the grandeur of the historic Eixample district.
What endures in Café Müller is an ephemeral grandeur that's somehow rooted in mundane things — some chairs, a few doors, a suit jacket, a pair of high heels.
Now that David Bowie is dead and I am older and more experienced with life and music and the industry, my understanding of his grandeur is even deeper.
The geometric grandeur and decorative reliefs of the pyramids, sanctuaries and building complexes of the Maya, Aztec, Zapotec and other civilizations enabled Albers (1888-1976) to reach maturity.
Mr. Lagerfeld has made himself into the grand showman of Paris, and Chanel into a brand that uses theater and extravagance to express the grandeur of its position.
The irony is that this government seemed destined to fall soon because of its ineffectiveness, but now this lockdown is giving Prime Minister Conte a sort of grandeur.
More than 50,000 souls are said to have flowed through its marble grandeur, inaugurating what has been an intimate, mutually sustaining union between the public and its library.
It's jarring to hear for the first time, but Mr. Esfahani's unpretentious approach has a kind of grandeur as it unfolds over the course of Bach's 30 variations.
Mr. Selge, who is not so very far from the king's age of "fourscore and upward," moves across the stage with a sort of hulking but sunken grandeur.
The home also has retained much of its prewar grandeur and scale, including the hand-carved mahogany and oak doors and oak burnsall paneling in the living room.
A mournful duo passage between the still-obscure artist Cornell (Mario Diaz-Moresco) and his caring if uncomprehending mother (Lauren Flanigan) had a wounded grandeur worthy of opera.
The showcase of White House grandeur and foreign diplomacy is only the second in the Trump presidency, following the one for French President Emmanuel Macron in April 2018.
At dinnertime, the Blue Train aspires to the grandeur of "Downton Abbey": Women are instructed to dress in "elegant evening wear" and men must wear coat and tie.
Instead of aiming for dull festival grandeur, he emphasizes the movement's black roots — he's partial to house music (as heard here on the sensual "Passionfruit"), dancehall, Nigerian Afrobeats.
But the real star of the new Newport is Bert's, a second-story restaurant opened in January 2018 that attempts to summon the grandeur of 1930s fine dining.
A central slow movement begins with an eerie duet between a stark piano and a forlorn English horn, then broadens into a full-orchestra grandeur that feels earned.
But then every episode includes some moment of such sweeping grandeur and philosophical heft that I remember, instantly, why I do ultimately love this series, flaws and all.
The menus had an air of Trumpian grandeur—goose, moose, and swan were all on the menu, as well as fresh fruit, which was hard to come by.
But this exhibition works as a collection of titillating sculptures already steeped in great familiarity but made unfamiliar by Neoclassical French architect Jacques-Denis Antoine's frame of imperial grandeur.
Nor is he a Julius Caesar, whose grandeur renders him incautious around flatterers: just before his assassins strike, Caesar sniffs that he is unmoved by their "base spaniel fawning".
Although William and Kate married in the grandeur of Westminster Abbey, William "would have liked to have married at St. George's Chapel," royal historian Hugo Vickers previously told PEOPLE.
The second details Bakst's love affair with Grecian antiquity, which follows a trajectory from neoclassicism to primitivism, and from primitivism to Hollywood grandeur, before his untimely death in 1924.
"I think it does make a difference to those who feel that these rituals uphold the grandeur of Hinduism, and so they take pride in that," Thapar told Reuters.
Regardless, in all its grandeur as the (current) thinnest laptop in the world, at just 27 inches, it still manages to crank out battery life up to seven hours.
The town has few functioning institutions, but the grandeur of its former life can still be seen: in the imposing bank building, the post office, the churches, the library.
To critics this was the folie de grandeur in the company's hasty expansion abroad; it never seemed likely that chic Parisiennes would flock to the M&S lingerie department.
Everyone can think of inspiring leaders from history but managers who think they can base their style on Nelson Mandela or Elizabeth I are suffering from delusions of grandeur.
Relative newcomer Chance Perdomo plays the housebound warlock with all of the grandeur a centuries-old practitioner of magic should muster, while never underselling the loneliness of his imprisonment.
"What's so cool about them to me is that, with all this power, with all this grandeur that surrounds the office they're still really down to Earth," he said.
The magical backdrop of temple ruins adds grandeur to the melodrama, and the losses on both sides of the movie's conflict suggest that justice prevails only after enormous sacrifice.
This year, during the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service (NPS), millions of Americans will travel to Yellowstone to experience the grandeur of the world's first national park.
Putting her music across on a girlish flow free of tough-bitch macho-once-removed, she keeps her beats amateurish and minimal even when they flirt with trap grandeur.
The sex thriller has mainly gone the way of the dinosaur: viewable only in museums or in poor renderings that make a mockery of the grandeur of the original.
Whether Wick is dispatching baddies with balletic grace or trapped in a disorienting, hall-of-mirrors gallery space, we're always meant to be awestruck by the film's visual grandeur.
This is Mr. Creed's "Work No. 990," and in this instance it takes on some of the grandeur of "Valley Curtain," Christo and Jeanne-Claude's 1974 land-art piece.
Her tranquil descriptions of the "creamy beauty" of Palmyra and the "pinkish buff" grandeur of Raqqa (the de facto IS capital) offer an aching contrast to current slaughterhouse conditions.
Although William and Kate married in the grandeur of Westminster Abbey, William "would have liked to have married at St. George's Chapel," royal historian Hugo Vickers previously told PEOPLE.
We had to realign the company's activities to move away from 18th-century expertise and the material associated with the grandeur of the past to fully embrace this modernism.
For all its grandeur, America's romance with hunting also reveals unpleasant truths about the country's capacity for limitless consumption, environmental recklessness, and indifference to both human and animal suffering.
Perhaps the only house of worship that can match its grandeur is the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, built in the early 1600s at the height of the Ottoman Empire.
"To work amidst all that vastness was really special," said MacKenzie, whose New Mexico–shot desert chase sequences capture a grandeur that is matched by the film's colloquial authenticity.
Without self-importance or unnecessary grandeur, Stranger in the Alps traverses what it means to be human: for every painful admission of loneliness, there's a moment of connection, too.
But he knew that he was dying of cancer when he made ''You Want It Darker,'' which bestows the work with both a dismal grandeur and a somber authority.
The so-called dramatic symphony, which the soprano Barbara Hannigan performed with the pianist and composer Rembert de Leeuw last weekend at the Park Avenue Armory, defies operatic grandeur.
Such grandeur is the territory where "War Horse" lives, though that show freed the imagination — and sharpened it — by using intricate, galloping, large-scale puppets to play its animals.
"Mariners Apartment Complex" is the first song she's released in advance of her forthcoming sixth album, and it doesn't vary much from the woozy grandeur she typically luxuriates in.
" Hannah is the kind of person who frets, while taking in the grandeur of Alaska, about the way that "thoughts about how small you are always feel small themselves.
The old Met, I vaguely remember from attending a few performances as a teenager, had fine acoustics and, with its golden horseshoe interior, a kind of faded, dusty grandeur.
Often, her arrangements took advantage of a chamber orchestra or layers of vocal harmonies, and rather than seeming pumped full of grandeur, they were tiny miracles of poetic efficiency.
Rybka certainly spent time alongside some very powerful Russian people, but the writing of the self-styled seductress, and her mentor, reveal delusions of grandeur and constant self-promotion.
Dennehy is seventy-seven now, but his jaw has not lost its determined jut, and there is a sad grandeur simply in the way he rises to his feet.
The staff at Grandeur, a casual cafe-style restaurant in Oakland that serves both, say that plenty of meat-eaters come in to do side-by-side taste tests.
In just the first 90 seconds of this "Tosca," the incisive attack and hurtling energy of de Sabata's conducting hook you, starting with the malignant grandeur of Scarpia's theme.
"Songfest," his setting of 13 texts by American poets, which perhaps gets the closest in Bernstein's body of work to that balance of intimacy and grandeur he kept seeking.
The use of drone cameras, slowly panning over a site or landscape or work of art, gives a sense of the grandeur that we might get on the spot.
The exploits of the Elf-Lords of old would make for a stirring epic, while many would thrill at the possibility of seeing Moria at the height of its grandeur.
The grand edifice pockmarked by shells that formerly housed L'Orient-Le Jour, Lebanon's French-language newspaper, is a lone reminder of the grandeur that used to prevail around the Souks.
"Said to," because merely from the music, you would never guess that the work stemmed from Gregorian chant tunes, it is so far removed in grandeur from such modest origins.
The sense of entitlement that accompanies this worldview depends on retrograde notions of masculinity and whiteness that affirm their delusions of grandeur, while medicating the ache of their own mediocrity.
I wanted to visit the restaurant that served as the setting for Los Pollos Hermanos because it took on a mysterious grandeur by serving as a front for Gus Fring.
By the time of Girault's photograph three years later, the mosque is gone, replaced by scaffolding — the work of restoring the original classical grandeur of the Acropolis was well underway.
We come to understand Connie pretty well by the end of Good Time, just from seeing how he operates — his puffed-up grandeur, his sense of wounded injustice, his ruthlessness.
He would meet dignitaries and politicians and discuss global security but not enjoy the grandeur of being hosted by the Queen at one of her residences or having dinner there.
"Words do not do justice to the grandeur of this remarkable place and the incredible hospitality you have shown us from the moment we arrived," Trump told Saudi King Salman.
Its grandeur earned it recognition as a National Historic Landmark in 1997 and the American Planning Association included it in its first list of Great Places in America in 2007.
The question of what priests and popes should wear — and the scale of grandeur they should evoke — ties into a much wider ecclesiastical culture clash over liturgy, pomp, and tradition.
Where the glass kills the unaffected grandeur of the paintings and tames the vividness of his spasmodic curling strokes, the book's matte paper allows for deep looking at his paintings.
Synonymous with old world grandeur and colonial tradition, the return of the city-state's oldest and most iconic hotel has been the talk of the town — and the travel circuit.
Whereas season one's director Jean-Marc Vallée shot the Pacific waves buffeting craggy rocks with epic grandeur, the director of season two, Andrea Arnold, is less infatuated with the scenery.
It has considerable orchestral glories, not least the veiled hints of "Götterdämmerung" that hail Erda's warning to Wotan, yet his work modestly eschews grandeur in favor of exposing the voices.
Set in lawns under parasol pines and towering cypresses, from the front it appears as a stately, Florentine-style mansion, while at the rear, Palladian columns add an improbable grandeur.
There is the grandeur of "Emotions," which Ariana Grande covered in 2012 before Grande nestled into a career that would eventually cause Billboard to name her Woman of the Year.
As the title suggests, El Royale — a motor lodge with pretensions of grandeur, which seems like an apt metaphor for this movie — isn't a place for a good night's sleep.
Besides being a richly rewarding visual feast, the show fosters a dialectic between pure gestural abstraction (these paintings are usually labeled "Untitled") and lyrical suggestions of the grandeur of nature.
The city's old-school grandeur is nowhere more visible than at the Ritz-Carlton, located in Montreal's storied Golden Square Mile, close to the city's rambling Parc du Mont-Royal.
That scene is a jolt, because it's a reminder of the narrative ambition and mythic grandeur that's often reduced in this franchise to epic fights, fancy elocution and special effects.
Despite the grandeur of the setting and its deep history, the museum's name reflects the humiliations that free people of color, no matter how wealthy, endured before the Civil War.
Barack's characteristic pose (I beg indulgence to use the couple's first names, for convenience) rather undercut Wiley's signature manner of investing contemporary subjects with neo-early-nineteenth-century, Napoleonic grandeur.
With a reduced orchestration and a company of 10 actors, his staging, with choreography by Bill T. Jones, won't have the grandeur of grand opera or the dazzle of Broadway.
The experience was doubtlessly worth my effort, not just for the grandeur of this spectacle, but for the regular, everyday majesty and beauty of our planet in its natural form.
And despite gorgeous interiors and impressive backdrops, the show as a whole doesn't have the sweep or grandeur that would let you overlook the glibness and superficiality of the script.
Beneath his country-lawyer geniality was a serious purpose: to tie all the loose ends together, Perry Mason-style, and reduce the grandeur of the moment to its unseemly essence.
Like "Jerusalem," which probed the British yearning for a lost mythic grandeur, "The Ferryman" portrays a people in thrall to millenniums of history, in ways they're not always aware of.
Wealth Special Section MOSCOW — There's no doubt Russia is a country with grandeur in its scale, sweeping across 11 time zones and home to gargantuan oil, gas and mining companies.
Ms. Bergstein wanted a setting that conveyed the grandeur that Catskill resorts were known for in the middle of the last century, and the Mountain Lake Lodge certainly did that.
It began, as it always does, with Donald Trump's and Kim Jong Un's dueling egos, and it likely ends with Trump paying a price for his delusions of diplomatic grandeur.
The Crown is about monarchy itself—the toll of it, the grandeur, the absurdity, and, as the show presents it, the desirability of an institution that can seem painfully archaic.
Danler deftly captures the unique power of hierarchy in the restaurant world, the role of drug and alcohol abuse, and the sense of borrowed grandeur that pervades the serving scene.
Mr. Wu mostly roams New York like an old-time street photographer, exploring its grandeur and desolation, returning regularly to Trump Tower, as if to a riddle he can't solve.
As far as she or many others could tell, the only difference between her conclusions and Reich's were those of methods — hers old, theirs shiny and new — and rhetorical grandeur.
But much of the idiosyncratic grandeur of the room was untouched, like its scalloped balconies, Art Deco wall designs and, above the stage, an old canvas painting of falling balloons.
But it's nonetheless become heavily associated with Burns's efforts to exhume America's musty past and imbue it with the drama and grandeur it held when it was still the present.
Now the land consists of bucolic, quirky little towns scattered across ruins of immense grandeur, filled with knowledge that the world of the present has no hope of truly understanding.
Since the Nintendo saga's early 8-bit days, the title has conjured images of grandeur, heroism, and myth—but the reality has always been, in the details, smaller and more intimate.
After a slow, convoluted start, and a depressingly downbeat middle, the film redeems itself with a rousing, all-action finale which combines visual fireworks, tragic grandeur and arch "Flash Gordon" silliness.
And yet an hour of "Glass" consists of her sitting opposite the three men, and having slow, stilted, cod-philosophical conversations in which she argues that they have delusions of grandeur.
His talk of grandeur and prestige goes down well, and the prospect of France acting as Europe's preferred leader in Washington seems to make up for popular distaste for Mr Trump.
It's a welcomed sight to witness someone finally gape at the grandeur of the Maisel abode, since everyone else behaves as though, to quote Queen Cardi B, it's regular degular shmegular.
Throughout all those experiences, I'd like to think I remained a good, morally centered person, one who wouldn't let a sense of power or delusions of grandeur get into his head.
While the meal is sure to be fancy — its theme, after all, is "Golden Grandeur" — the chefs are also committed to sustainability practices such as sourcing seasonal produce from local farms.
Mr Macron's talk of grandeur and prestige goes down well, and the prospect of France acting as America's preferred European interlocutor makes up for reservations the French have about Mr Trump.
And more than most golfers who did not grow up dreaming of Olympic glory, he seemed to grasp the grandeur of the Summer Games, which have not featured golf since 1904.
Replying to yet another picture of West in a MAGA hat, taken shortly after the rapper's disquieting appearance on Saturday Night Live, Del Rey accused West of narcissistic delusions of grandeur.
But after a week seeing new productions at all three opera houses, led by some of Europe's most renowned stage directors, I was struck by the lack of grandeur on display.
To send the web into a frenzy over what tracks have or have not been performed—and in how many years—exudes a subtle grandeur that makes their presence feel significant.
A grandeur, a cohesiveness, a constant reminder of what they had all done to survive and even triumph over during the last 141 years that they knew anything about first hand.
"Yo Perreo Sola," about an empowered woman on the dance floor, manages big-club grandeur without sacrificing the pointedness of the reggaeton underpinning (though the female duet partner, Nesi, isn't credited).
Steve Bannon, a quasi-fascist with delusions of grandeur, makes more sense to me than Anthony Scaramucci, a political cipher who likes to be on TV. I don't think I'm alone.
I have no doubt that when it was built it gave the people a sense of divine grandeur and an astonishing sense of confidence in what they can imagine and build.
It can be easy for businesses to get lost in the grandeur of digital transformation because the end goal is usually exciting and often involves a shiny new piece of technology.
But as a symbol, the military parade he is organizing should be understood less as a celebration of imperial grandeur than as a ploy for expanding presidential power by advertising it.
Hideyoshi was known for his lavish, gaudy excess, and under his rule, tatehana, which he adored for its grandeur, had become increasingly more relaxed — libertine really — in its expressions of extravagance.
His photographs in "The New West" and in the books that followed do not repudiate grandeur, but they are direct and testimonial, allowing for the uncomfortable truths of the modern world.
Look, she seems to say as the camera pulls up and away — and cuts the two human travelers down to humble size — look at all this grandeur, all this unspoiled beauty.
I was able to compare it to a Superior Room, which was nicely appointed but significantly smaller and lacked the panache and grandeur of the suite, which felt like a destination.
The seven-part series, written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff, opens in 1946 in a London hotel where the rooms overlook bomb-damage rubble and "faded grandeur" is the decorating motif.
Nichols prefers the quick and the oblique (only once is a firearm discharged in "Shotgun Stories," and it's pointed at a tire), and finales of any grandeur don't suit his skills.
"We wanted to take the legacy of neo-realism and add to it the grandeur of the spettacolo — the panoramas of John Ford, the melodrama of Giotto's frescoes," Mr. Taviani said.
In another gallery, where red is the connecting color, "Delusions of Grandeur" (2007) depicts a child peering up from the bottom of a staircase with red carpet and orange-ish woodwork.
" But in cases of "deep imaginative feeling" it was natural to behold the "never-ending growth of one colossal grandeur chasing and surmounting another, or of abysses that swallowed up abysses.
The theatre had the grandeur of a cathedral: blood-red velvet curtains framed the stage; golden ceilings, patterned with blue-and-purple paisleys, soared over vaudeville-era balconies and plush seats.
In the years that followed, using an extensive archive of prewar photographs, the city worked to rebuild it stone by stone, to restore as much as possible of its prewar grandeur.
As an Atlantic Monthly correspondent, a farmer of herbs, a rustic wanderer and a writer of children's books, Beston fell in love with the primitive grandeur of the New England seaside.
The organisers did not try to match the grandeur of the opening ceremony and handed over the baton to Hangzhou, China, which will host the next event in four years' time.
The title character of George Kelly's 1924 play "The Show-Off" is a boasting buffoon named Aubrey Piper — a vain, dissembling blowhard with an obvious toupee and galloping delusions of grandeur.
My overall impression from the visit was of something out of a Thomas Mann novel: faded grandeur and an air of antique stillness, overseen by a wizened and mildly vexed aristo.
An exhibition in Venice celebrates the glitz and grandeur of self-portraits by star artists at a time when members of the public are increasingly wary about sharing images of themselves.
It has an exceptionally strong sense of place — a distinctly manifest genius loci — which may be strange for a small slice of Islington with no particular grandeur in its architecture or landscape.
Visitors might outnumber locals, but the place must take care to preserve the brand of lonely natural grandeur that has become its product, offered up like a dish of roast lamb belly.
The video for the track, shot and directed by Daniel Hill, captures the grandeur of the country vision, from the blinking lights of the bars and fairgrounds to the solitary open expanses.
"If someone is in a manic episode where they think they're invincible and brilliant and all these things are going to work, they certainly can believe their delusions of grandeur," she says.
One way to view this contrast is as an embodiment of a bipolar episode, as Dani moves from a depressive mental state and into a manic psychotic break with delusions of grandeur.
" Sadly, all his historical and anthropological learning only prepare us "to begin to ask what it would mean to start thinking on a breadth and with a grandeur appropriate to the times.
When I published my first app on both platforms (an app that automatically monitored fuel economy while driving), I spent the first week obsessively checking its download counts with dreams of grandeur.
While it pales in comparison to actually being there, the timelapse does show the sheer scope and grandeur, not to mention the danger, of a supervolcano gearing up for the next blast.
What I liked about "Répons" was its visceral intimacy: Audi gestured toward the grandeur of the space, especially when Boulez's satellite instrumental stations kicked in, but the musical foreground dominated the picture.
Donna Darby, a Kykuit docent who led me on a tour of the estate, praised the work of William Welles Bosworth, who designed the gardens and influenced the grandeur of the house.
Impressed and delighted by the grandeur of the meal, he spoke with the chef Mario Batali, who owns Del Posto with the chef Lidia Bastianich and her son, the restaurateur Joe Bastianich.
You could drift from "La La Land" to Denis Villeneuve's "Arrival," an eerie and emotional alien-visitation movie that similarly evokes and updates the grandeur and mystery of past science-fiction masterpieces.
The last hundred pages of the book achieve momentous power, an epic grandeur—carriages and carts, dead horses frozen in icy lakes, Russian bombers above, French prisoners of war on the move.
The grandeur of "2001"—the product of two men, Clarke and Kubrick, who were sweetly awestruck by the thought of infinite space—required, in its execution, micromanagement of a previously unimaginable degree.
George Balanchine's pure dance masterpiece "Jewels" explores three facets of ballet: "Emeralds" evokes France; "Rubies" captures an angular, energetic midcentury American modernism; and "Diamonds" conjures the courtly grandeur of imperial Russian classicism.
"A Little Life," Hanya Yanagihara Yanagihara's novel breaks with the decorum of much of contemporary American fiction, laying claim instead to the scope and grandeur that often characterize the greatest queer art.
French President Emmanuel Macron successfully wooed his American counterpart with deferential displays of French grandeur, including a Bastille Day parade in Paris last year that Trump now hopes to emulate in Washington.
In his work, he illuminates a cold-but-human netherworld where kids run their own lives and revel in an orgy of one-upmanship, conquests, despair, and the grandeur of drug use.
To criticize the circus is to object to our reflection, our identity, to ingenuity and bizarro entrepreneurship, and the sham idealism and slow-motion grandeur we glop on all our home movies.
Charming and small-scale, with no chorus or other signs of Golden Age grandeur, "Saturday Night" exemplified the changing texture of musical theater — or would have, had its lead producer not died.
And though it emphasizes the fantastic otherness of the jungle in a way that feels almost antique, young readers will finish it with an impression of the grandeur of the natural world.
The love story is big and the tragedies are even bigger, and they need to be because by the end, the two main characters are supposed to have the grandeur of icons.
The park's expo center evinced all the charm and historic grandeur of a shopping mall, but one whose grounds were sprinkled with retired tanks and other military vehicles painted in green camouflage.
His work is deeply evocative of Indian history and culture, drawing on the grandeur of shrines and temples, the bustle of city streets and the local materials from his grandfather's furniture workshop.
It was shameless and patently unfair to the other teams that tanked for the occasion and especially to Williamson, 18, whose impressionable head was prematurely filled with visions of Big Apple grandeur.
Beyond the grandeur, guest stars, or orchestrated violence, it is WWE's willingness to constantly tinker with WrestleMania and the company's complicated negotiation with its audience that makes this major event so exceptional.
Siegfried's funeral march is one of the most famous orchestral excerpts from the "Ring," and it is often played on its own in concert halls, where its grandeur and power delights audiences.
American concertgoers were inclined to prefer the sonic grandeur of symphony orchestras; the handful of quartets booked regularly in United States concert halls tended to be imports like the Budapest String Quartet.
As with any reinvention of tradition there was an artificiality to Gaullism, a deliberate submerging of many important controversies, a mythmaking about national "grandeur" that dodged as many questions as it answered.
For traditional grandeur, the 137-year-old, nine-story Grand Hotel Vesuvio (rooms with seaview balconies, from 290 euros), on Naples' pedestrian waterfront, overlooks the Castel dell'Ovo and the Bay of Naples.
But Bertelli likes the tactics and grandeur of monohulls, and sailing conditions in the Hauraki Gulf off Auckland, the likely site for this Cup, were considered less than ideal for foiling catamarans.
Then the designers played with essentially three elements — cabaret sequins; maroon and cream striped governess shirting; and camo — mixing and matching them in the tropes of historical grandeur and red-light districts.
CreditCreditCharlotte Hadden for The New York Times LONDON — The Queen Victoria Memorial, centerpiece of the plaza that fronts Buckingham Palace, is possibly the most bombastic of this city's monuments to British grandeur.
Whenever the show threatened to get twee, it veered toward spooky grandeur: an assault on Akhnaten's temple is headed by a Grand Guignol general wearing a top hat capped by a skull.
In "Harbor of Dieppe: Changement de Domicile" (from the mid-1820s), a lemony sheen imparts grandeur and transcendence to small, down-to-earth figurative vignettes, reminiscent of those in Dutch landscape painting.
My acquisition of the language had been a sort of conversion, and, in the same way that Catholics valued the Latin Mass for its grandeur, French represented to me a sacred medium.
Revenge of the Sith (an objectively good film) tracks Anakin's final descent into darkness with the sort of grandeur you'd expect to close out the second set of Lucas' four planned trilogies.
Partly, this means promoting fortified wines as cocktail ingredients, which keeps the flow of wine going but seems a little sad, as it fails to recognize the intrinsic grandeur of these wines.
At the edge of Glacier Point's 21903,21890-foot cliff, one of the most iconic places in Yosemite, the absurd daylight grandeur of Half Dome and the forested slopes exert their solemn gravity.
Within their individual compositions, both fought to reconcile seeming conflicts like tradition and innovation; drawing and painting; representation and abstraction; depth and flatness; vigor and poise; order and muddle; grandeur and humility.
Lead single "Wondering" holds all of the industrial grandeur that the band has toyed with since its inception; "At Last, At Last" is anthemic at its peaks, terrifyingly paranoid at its lows.
Andrew M. Cuomo's redevelopment of Pennsylvania Station, comparisons will inevitably be drawn between the governor's constrained vision for an international rail crossroads in Midtown and the grandeur of the commuter train station downtown.
Rather, I returned over and over to be in the presence of an unfathomable existence, to witness a miracle in a tangible way — the kind of awe-inspiring grandeur reminiscent of feeling saved.
Big software companies like IBM, Oracle, SAP and many more all touted these visions of data grandeur, and turned the concept of big data analytics, or just Big Data, into everyday business nomenclature.
This much: you get to see the cosmos blazeAnd feel its grandeur, even against your will,As it reminds you, just by being there,That it is here we live or else nowhere.
Now in its 11th season, which premiered in November, The Real Housewives of Atlanta still inspires delusions of grandeur among its cast members, new/no money radar, and lifestyle scrutiny in its viewers.
The cool grandeur of Teresa Reichlen as the lead ballerina in "Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2" transformed the mood entirely, which is what you hope for in a night at City Ballet: variety.
In "Chrysalis" (1964), "Icarus" (1964), and "Combat" (1965), myriad dots, curving lines, and precipitous arcs impose semiabstract order within washes of pinks, reds, and violets, approximating the collective and individual grandeur of wildflowers.
However trivial or striking the resulting imagery may appear, the form itself requires a reckoning, since to contemplate the dronestagram is to witness both the grandeur and vulnerability of life on the ground.
This scene works on two levels: first, establishing that Cunanan actually did meet Versace, and second, establishing Cunanan as a liar, with delusions of grandeur and a remorseless way of ignoring the truth.
In part because written Arabic is a literary language, distinct from the various vernaculars spoken across the region, rhetorical grandeur is native to Arabic in a way that it is not to English.
Other Gossip • There are lots of shots in this episode, like the one of Claire and Jamie atop their horses leading their army toward Prince Charles's encampment, that convey a sense of grandeur.
A hyper-effusive, Broadway-besotted stage director with stereotypical gay mannerisms and delusions of artistic grandeur, he was in charge of a tacky community theater pageant in Blaine, Mo., celebrating the town's sesquicentennial.
That tinny, faux-cosmic synth, trying its absolute hardest to sound bigger than it is, is reflective of an era and a genre preoccupied with creating grandeur beyond its economic and sonic means.
It's tremendously difficult for an opposition party to follow and top the grandeur of the president's setting — they've tried many different formats over the decades, but none of them have worked too well.
Unlike the twin-tent approach of Frieze, FIAC brings together both new works and classic modern art under a single cast-iron and glass roof, whose cathedral-like grandeur remains a compelling attraction.
Though built as a single-family residence, it had been split into five small apartments during the community's lean times, and through gradual renovation, Wainwright's family had restored it to its former grandeur.
The 18th-century German archaeologist and art historian Johann Winckelmann, a pioneer of modern aesthetics, famously spoke of the "noble simplicity and quiet grandeur" of even the most violent depictions in Greek statuary.
"His new look at Verdi's masterpiece remains waiting and ready for a cast strong enough in personality to compete with its director's illusions of grandeur," Bernard Holland wrote in The New York Times.
Buying something because a celebrity says so is childish — a doofy decision-making process based on nothing except whim and delusion of grandeur and failure to have a solid opinion of one's own.
Giovanni holds the grandeur of Europe over David's head, saying Americans always fail to measure up, which David counters in language that sounds less like fiction than like Baldwin: You people are impossible.
"We have worked tirelessly to restore the resort to its original grandeur, and we are confident the finished product is worthy of the hotel's opening fanfare," says Jerry Johnson, who owns the property.
The Kazakh leader's aspirations to grandeur often sound like the stuff of parody: Take, for instance, his relocation of the capital to Astana, a futuristic city on the frozen steppe of northern Kazakhstan.
Mr. Root, whose filmmaking concentrated on the natural wonders of Africa, was known for inventive shots that captured both the grandeur of gigantic herds and up-close images of animals and their behavior.
If the Nobel Prize really wants to reclaim its former grandeur it has only one choice: Give not one but two prizes to people whose work is barely available in the United States.
Laura Vassar Brock and Kristopher Brock, the couple behind Brock Collection, decided to stage their show in the decadent ballroom of the Pierre Hotel, and their collection mirrored the grandeur of the setting.
Rates start in the mid-$300s and include breakfast, offering a competitive value that&aposs hard to match in a neighborhood renowned for luxury — and the high prices that often accompany such grandeur.
But Brexit and the delusions of the United Kingdom's grandeur that go with it are the politics of the aged, of those who remember that brief experience of a united, national United Kingdom.
The level of refinement might come as a surprise to those familiar with the œuvre of the co-owner Stephen Starr, whose theme-park-style restaurants Morimoto and Buddakan exude a gaudy grandeur.
When Brazil won the right to host the 2014 World Cup, Lula pushed for the construction of 12 arenas across Brazil to increase the grandeur of the event and spread the economic benefits.
WITH Wagnerian grandeur Germans from time to time like to speculate about Kanzlerdämmerung, or the twilight of the chancellor—the slow but tangible decline in authority that has affected many former heads of government.
But "occasionally deeply silly" is a fair price for ambition, and this time around Rønnenfelt is lyrically and vocally unfettered in his reach for some profane grandeur that'll hopefully get him to (a) home.
Frank soon graduates from fixing to whacking, with Scorsese, as so often, eschewing grandeur for the downbeat detail—a gun handed over in a brown paper bag, with no more fuss than a sandwich.
Their sound is expansive and versatile, going from the grandeur of something like Woodkid's "Iron" to the intimacy of The xx's "Angels" to the lyrical complexities of Aesop Rock's "Supercell" without breaking a sweat.
But now anyone — with a couple thousand dollars to spare, that is — can own a part of the history of this special store, which, though focused on the minute, represented a world of grandeur.
And I remember the framed photograph of the old Penn Station tucked away in the Amtrak concourse, a reminder of past grandeur, and briefly wonder if Penn's best days are still ahead of it.
But he won his Emmy for the show he might forever be best associated with — The West Wing, which Walden infused from start to finish with orchestral grandeur, especially its deeply memorable theme song.
Otherwise he would not be allowing his illusions of grandeur to lead him down the path of misguided economic policy decisions that could prove to be both the Turkish economy's and his own ruin.
The film's music soundtrack is deployed like a cudgel: A musical-comedy-like refrain adds a comic buoyancy; a hard-rock cue suggests Gonzalo's defiance; a stirring Prokofiev crescendo lends grandeur to the climax.
Just before I graduated, I instead availed myself of a psychiatrist who, for a fee, swore that I suffered from delusions of grandeur because I wanted to be a writer and travel the world.
A few symbols of grandeur remain in Băile Herculane, like a ceramic fountain in the middle of the Băile Neptun reception hall, and the Hercules statue, installed in 1847, in the center of town.
The hotel has been closed for renovations for three years and was expected to re-open in March, restored to the grandeur that drew the likes of Frederic Chopin, Coco Chanel and Ernest Hemingway.
Once underwater, Bojack's head is encased in a glass bubble and he is unable to speak as he floats around a bustling marine metropolis, haunted by his own thoughts of grandeur and self-loathing.
Denuded of people, stripped of the rich social contexts in which they were once embedded, antiquities appear just as evidence of the grandeur of the past, the accomplishments of another place in another time.
The lacquered black runways and windowless grandeur he brought to the arena at Bercy, where the show was held on Monday, might have been shipped directly from his Teatro Armani on the Via Bergognone.
But the new opera, even at nearly three hours long (it's written in four acts with one intermission), is paced effectively as the story mixes elements of intimacy, grandeur, political intrigue and the supernatural.
There are some delusions of grandeur here: It's hard to imagine the leader of one small Central European country transforming the way that, say, German and French citizens think about their own political systems.
They all sing with operatic grandeur and lyrical finesse — especially the soloists Jill Paice, Tiffany Mann, Justin Keyes and Luke Grooms — without ever for a second condescending to or trivializing the people they play.
The contrast with the steel structures couldn't be starker — the colossal increase in scale and change of materials transform the character of the concept, lending it a forbidding grandeur intrinsic to its engineering perfection.
But their grandeur is of an unusual kind: These are portraits of black people, in cluttered domestic interiors or Edenic outdoor settings, clothed or nude, carrying on the business of being alive and fabulous.
He also came convinced that the French wanted a president with a "Jupiterian" aura of detachment, grandeur and mystery, a tag he should have known would become mockery the moment he confronted social unrest.
It offers a suave, almost theatrical mood – like I should be a slightly subdued circus ringmaster, or, when it's paired with a black velvet pencil skirt, a sixties secretary with delusions of beatnik grandeur.
But in July 2017, Mr. Trump witnessed the grandeur of a military parade at the annual Bastille Day celebration in Paris, and told Mr. Mattis on the way home that he wanted one, too.
His divinity is neither forced nor satirical, it just is, and though the painting, with its tremendous grandeur and respect for its subject, isn't a self-portrait, it's tempting to see it as one.
In a rebellious reinvention of French grandeur, his bouquets explode with dyed blue delphiniums and thistles, white hellebores, black-eyed poppies, waxy olive branches and fiery orange lotus, making at once clamor and harmony.
I'm proud of how it turned out, with no real obscurities and a limited number of proper nouns, and some nice answers like HOODOO, OPEN MRI, GRANDEUR, SOLO CUP, and even a (COY) COYOTE.
The prince, who has been an owner of the hotel since 1995, formed a partnership with Ashkenazy earlier this year to buy out Mr. Roy and restore the Plaza to its five-star grandeur.
In images that are romantic and psychologically severe—the angular grandeur of rock and the terror of the ocean, befuddled by clouds, fog, and breaking waves—the "Atlas" documents an exile's search for home.
He became the first Chinese ruler to assume the heaven-kissed title of emperor — Qin Shihuangdi, or First Emperor of Qin — and built a tomb near Xian, in northwestern China, to match its grandeur.
The legendary acoustics of the space—in combination with the grandeur of live string, wind, and brass sections—elevated DVSN's music to a level that prompts listeners to reconsider how they compartmentalize their sound.
The source of their power — given their high popularity ratings and successful identification with themes of national grandeur and the undoing of actual or supposed victimizations — is much better understood as demagoguery than autocracy.
The full potential and grandeur of a military a parade was on full display for Mr. Trump last July, when he watched — and by all accounts, thoroughly enjoyed — a Bastille Day celebration in Paris.
Featuring a close look at everything from the spectacular detailing on one of the Queen's dresses to the full grandeur of Diana's gowns, the video opens the door to the exhibit, which opened February 11.
If, on the other hand, you're looking for the sort of jaw-dropping visual grandeur and epic poetry of The Last Jedi (not to mention the original trilogy), then you'll probably be a little nonplussed.
An exaggerated image of Bobby Brown's dynamic stage presence and keen knack for grandeur created a character so large and so black only a voice as big as Tevin Campbell's could fill its empty spaces.
Restorers have brought the train cars back to their early 20th-century grandeur, but added modern touches like Vista Dome rail cars, which offer visitors panoramic views of the vines and stunning wine country scenery.
I know Las Vegas has a reputation as a party town, and it lives up to that for sure, but with the lights and the grandeur and elegance, it really can be incredibly romantic too.
Brian Wilson became obsessed with "Be My Baby"—often listening to it over a hundred times a day—and composed some of his most famous Beach Boys hits in an effort equal its symphonic grandeur.
You can't make a movie about him without his delusions of grandeur becoming almost comically clear (something Errol Morris also did in his documentary American Dharma, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival last fall).
The video can be mundane (driving around Los Angeles or hanging out in an apartment) or grandeur (flying to Hawaii for a day to prank a friend), but the vlogs are rarely focused on David.
I can't stop listening to Harry Styles' self-titled debut solo album which came out on Friday and, for the sake of appropriate grandeur, I'm going to henceforth refer to as The Harry Styles Album.
The sequel is a smaller film in multiple respects, but the filmmakers haven't set out to make a virtue out of its smallness, instead trying to ape the first film's grandeur on a tighter budget.
Songs like "I'm Still Standing" and "Tiny Dancer" are immediately familiar, then veer into new territory of glossy flourishes, updated instrumentation, and a fuller sound to grant John's solo act a renewed sense of grandeur.
Since the early twenty-first century, we've become accustomed to the grandeur of an aerial perspective, whether from film flyovers in blockbuster movies like Skyfall, or from the daily experience of scrolling through Google Earth.
After all, he was the leader of a democratic republic, but he was also a member of the gentry who respected tradition and sought to maintain respect for the grandeur of the America's highest office.
I think of the Voyager 25 and I'm mainly concerned with the sounds of whales or waves crashing on shore, the grandeur of Mozart and the comparatively crude technology in 13 that made things possible.
Silverstein Properties, its owner, is embarking on a $21.9 million renovation that, among other things, will restore grandeur to the through-block corridor on the ground floor and re-establish it as a public thoroughfare.
Both understood the fact that voters were bored as well as angry, mistrustful of the liberal consensus, angry at globalization's predations, restive for grandeur, thirsty for the outspoken rather than the dutiful warnings of experts.
A performance venue should be warm and inviting, but this building's interiors are cold and charmless with a modernist aesthetic that badly synthesizes the austere confines of MoMA with the oversized grandeur of the Whitney.
On March 73, she brings a pair of complementary Mozart concertos to Carnegie Hall: the bucolic and graceful No. 19 and the minor-key No. 20, whose stormy grandeur appealed to subsequent generations of romantics.
The baroque grandeur of the minuet pas de deux from Balanchine's "Chaconne" (a Suzanne Farrell creation) is exactly the kind of role that Ms. Peck hasn't yet mastered — it usually goes to tall, statuesque divas.
Back in 2010 at Dargie's wedding, friends and I had marveled at the Art Deco grandeur of the downtown Hilton Netherland Plaza Hotel, where we stayed: Romanesque ceiling frescos, crystal chandeliers, gilded sconces for days.
The production value has gotten a boost: the costumes are more dazzling than ever, and the sweeping shots of the estate and within the house itself highlight a grandeur appropriate for such pomp and circumstance.
Steinfeld and Hunt charm whenever they're on-screen together, excellent at playing up grandeur expressions of their love for each other while putting just as much importance into the small gestures that cement their relationship.
I forgave it because, for once, all this grandeur, all this grace, is in the service of a tale of a woman, Hirut, as indelible and compelling a hero as any I've read in years.
The 3-year-old mastiff was hiking with his human up the Grandeur Peak trail in Salt Lake County, Utah, on Sunday and got so worn out he couldn't make it back to the car.
It's far-enough removed from the people fighting it that the human drama of warfare disappears into a bloodless intellectual exercise, yet there is no vision of corresponding Clausewitzian grandeur to make up for it.
Many of its heroes have love interests, and some have their story stretched out over multiple films, but none of them have matched the scale and grandeur of the MCU's action scenes or individual character arcs.
The video was filmed (on a phone, the same as "Boy") in a stately home that has been abandoned, subsequently lost its grandeur and is now the sort of place teenagers hang out and smoke weed.
" The mother-of-three admits in her letter to wanting her sister back, but writes, "We will honor these two magical people who have left the tribe in the way they lived, with grandeur and grace.
You are in a converted former theatre in Elephant and Castle, a huge, cavernous space afforded grandeur by its vast stage, high ceiling (from which a giant disco ball hangs like a tear) and intricate cornicing.
According to Newsday, after Big Edie died, Little Edie sold the house in 1979 to Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee and his Washington Post columnist wife Sally Quinn, who restored the home to its original grandeur.
It features sneakers with satin bows, a lace up heel and a zipped sneaker boot, designs which aim to "merge sport silhouettes with the romance and grandeur of 18th century France," according to the Puma website.

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