He traffics in honesty, not grandiloquence, or even PG-rated dialogue.
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It had all the grandiloquence, Calvert Vaux sneered, of Napoleon III.
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Rose's plain-spokenness is the necessary counterweight to her husband's grandiloquence.
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To some, Mr Trump's speech may have sounded like typical American grandiloquence.
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Roosevelt was the architect and engineer who translated Churchill's grandiloquence into a plan for victory.
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It's not just the dangers or discomforts that so distinguish this book, but the tone — its originality and wry grandiloquence.
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You've obviously figured out that the title of this article is a hyperbole, a kind of positive exaggeration and benevolent grandiloquence.
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His most recent high-profile job, foreign secretary, found him ill at ease in a role that required more gravitas than grandiloquence.
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Berry was a peerless Signifier, reveling in rhyme, alliteration, double entendre, mock grandiloquence, and playful neologisms ("As I was motorvatin' over the hill…").
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It's that his manner of eloquence is direct, gracious and above all modest when everyone else — Walter Cronkite and Richard Nixon in particular — strains for grandiloquence.
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November 23rd marked the first big opportunity to turn this fighting grandiloquence into action, as Philip Hammond, the chancellor of the exchequer, made his Autumn Statement, an annual mini-budget.
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The dry grandiloquence of the narration puts Celeste at a remove, making her seem more distant than she might be in a movie more interested in milking the viewer's empathy and tears.
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Such music made louder and more obtrusive illuminates the familiar contradiction between sensitivity and its use as a manipulative substitute for macho; Sheeran's soaring hooks flex their muscles with triumphant solemnity, as if asking you to applaud their grandiloquence.
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Ms. Davis is his wife, Rose, a plain-spoken foil to her husband's grandiloquence — and the one left to smooth over the damage he does to his relationships, and to himself, through a rigidity he sees as an assertion of dignity.
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Perhaps it's that whiff of grandiloquence in Von Bruenchenhein's sense of himself as a thinker and creative agent, which comes across in his writings and to varying degrees in his art, that have endeared his multifaceted oeuvre to aficionados of outsider art.
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The parenthetical "(let alone clearly)" either was or was not a sly dig at Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's majority opinion in the marriage case: It has been widely criticized, and not only on the right, for grandiloquence that outstripped rigorous constitutional analysis.
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A dramatic assertion of her recovery from a breakup, tipping over into grandiloquence as a full choir appears to sing the final chorus with her, it's rendered joyful and endearing by the cracks in her voice ("Set fires to my fooooorest"); by contradicting the strength she professes in the lyrics, her vocals add emotional depth.
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He is still given to flights of conversational fancy and grandiloquence, but the Kanye of this moment is not the overeager attention seeker of the "College Dropout" era, the difficult aesthete who made "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" and proclaimed himself the greatest, nor is he the stern warrior of the "Yeezus" era, prone to interrupting concerts to deliver extemporaneous speeches.
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On a recent morning at the Metropolitan Detention Center, sitting in a plastic chair in an airless, glassed-in booth in what resembled a large hospital waiting room — minus the televisions, the pastel watercolor paintings, the magazines and the windows — Mr. Espada seemed shorn of the grandiloquence that those in Albany had come to know so well over the two decades of his singularly unruly political career.
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Synonyms include wordiness, verbiage, prolixity, grandiloquence, garrulousness, expatiation, logorrhea, and sesquipedalianism.
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Sir Jeffrey wants out too. He and VD act as if they have also argued about VD's grandiloquence behavior and VD fires Sir Jeffrey. Burton agrees to shoot the flying scene. VD is lifted on cables.
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From the point of view of style, the poet's work is marked by his simplicity, distant from the grandiloquence and the metrical structure of the neoclassic poets. His verses approach the popular forms, and his tone approaches a colloquialism, which contributes to the effect of denunciation of everyday vices, of ordinary episodes.
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Grandiloquence is complex speech or writing judged to be pompous or bombastic diction. It is a combination of the Latin words grandis ("great") and loqui ("to speak"). Logorrhea or logorrhoea (from Greek λογόρροια, logorrhoia, "word-flux") is an excessive flow of words. It is often used pejoratively to describe prose that is hard to understand because it is needlessly complicated or uses excessive jargon.
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Krishna Bhusan Bal (Nepali: कृष्णभूषण बल) (13 March 1948 - 25 June 2012) was a Nepalese poet known primarily for simplifying poetry for its readers at a time when poets were inclined to grandiloquence. Carving emotions into words is considered to be one of Bal’s most intricate qualities. Bal’s personality is often compared to a poem, indifferent to race, caste, religion, and politics.Aabhas, Seema (5 July 2012).
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The play is largely written in rhyming fourteener couplets, with some irregular heroic verse (as in the speeches of the comic character Ambidexter). The bombastic grandiloquence of the piece became proverbial, and Shakespeare is believed to allude to it when he makes Falstaff say "I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein" (Henry IV, Part 1, ii.4).
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" Scott adds, "Early nineteenth-century opera... is not merely the antithesis of reality, it also requires highly stylized acting. Callas had the perfect face for it. Her big features matched its grandiloquence and spoke volumes from a distance." In regard to Callas's physical acting style, Nicola Rescigno states, "Maria had a way of even transforming her body for the exigencies of a role, which is a great triumph.
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It was also performed at the Concerts du Conservatoire on the 22 and 29 January 1893 with Éléonore Blanc (who would create the role of Briséïs four years later) as soloist, conducted by Paul Taffanel. The orchestral manuscript is now in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The music (marked Andantino, molto con affetto) is in Chabrier's tenderest, most lyrical vein, entirely free from any suggestion of eccentricity or pseudo-Wagnerian grandiloquence.
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See page 100, The Oxford Companion to English Literature, fifth edition, 1985 A Times Literary Supplement (3/3/82) review stated that > "Wood has produced a vigorous modern version . . . overlaid with a racy > personal idiom, a witty mixture of archaic grandiloquence, modern slang, and > (in some passages) the jargon of sociology, television and local government > . . . his version will certainly be much more attractive to modern readers > than the older translations, with their drier narratives and unfamiliar > oriental hyperbole".
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He launched Minerva Movietone in 1936. His early films at Minerva dealt with contemporary social issues such as alcoholism in Meetha Zaher (1938) and the right of Hindu women to divorce in Talaq (1938). Though the films did well, what attracted Modi was the historic genre. Minerva Movietone became famous for its trilogy of historical spectaculars that were to follow – Pukar (1939), Sikandar (1941) and Prithvi Vallabh (1943), wherein Modi made the most of his gift for grandiloquence to evoke historical grandeur.
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After his move to Great Britain in September 1938, Cernuda continued the exploration of English literature that he had begun the previous spring. While he was reading Eliot, Blake, Keats, Shakespeare's plays, he was struck by their lack of verbal ornamentation compared with Spanish and French poetry. He discovered that a poet could achieve a deeper poetic effect by not shouting or declaiming, or repeating himself, by avoiding bombast and grandiloquence. As in those epigrams in the Greek anthology, he admired the way that concision could give a precise shape to a poem.
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Angelos Sikelianos (; 28 March 1884 – 19 June 1951)Encyclopædia Britannica - Angelos Sikelianós was a Greek lyric poet and playwright. His themes include Greek history, religious symbolism as well as universal harmony in poems such as The Moonstruck, Prologue to Life, Mother of God, and Delphic Utterance. His plays include Sibylla, Daedalus in Crete, Christ in Rome, The Death of Digenis, The Dithyramb of the Rose and Asklepius. Although occasionally his grandiloquence blunts the poetic effect of his work, some of Sikelianos finer lyrics are among the best in Western literature.
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His monumental diary "Journal Littéraire", which he kept for over 50 years, can without exaggeration be described as the greatest study of character ever written. (p. 143) :He would not stand for any form of grandiloquence where writing was concerned, and words such as "inspiration" were shot down rapidly: "When I see my father dying and write about his death I am not inspired, I am describing." Asked why he had been at his dreadful father's deathbed at all, he said, "It was only curiosity. Cu-ri-o-si-té." (p.
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" However, the album did receive some criticism, mostly pertaining to its overly lavish and decadent style. Regarding his attempt at creating radio-friendly music, Petridis claimed that Wainwright "doesn't seem to be trying at all" by employing Neil Tennant (a musician also known for grandiloquence) as executive producer of the album and including extravagant orchestrations. He wrote, "every time Wainwright seems on the verge of making a straightforward appeal for the mainstream, he throws a glittery spanner in the works." He noted the exotic instruments used in "Do I Disappoint You": "It's a marvelous song, but it's lavishly decorated with thundering timpani, fluttering woodwind, pizzicato strings and brass.
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The architectural writer Bridget Cherry wrote that "the sturdy exterior gives little hint of the fantasy [Burges] created inside", interiors which the art historian and Burges scholar Charles Handley-Read described as "at once opulent, aggressive, obsessional, enchanting, their grandeur border[ing] on grandiloquence". Each room has a complex iconographic scheme of decoration: in the hall it is Time; in the drawing room, Love; in Burges's bedroom, the Sea. Massive fireplaces with elaborate overmantels were carved and installed, described by Crook as "veritable altars of art ... some of the most amazing pieces of decoration Burges ever designed". Handley-Read considered that Burges's decorations were "unique, almost magical [and] quite unlike anything designed by his contemporaries".
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The novels were admired by the author Somerset Maugham.Anthony Powell, To Keep the Ball Rolling: The Memoirs of Anthony Powell, Univ. of Chicago (2001), page 240 A few years after Lodwick's death, Anthony Burgess wrote: "He is not afraid of rhetoric, grandiloquence; his knowledge of foreign literature is wide; his mastery of the English language matches Evelyn Waugh's." He warned, nevertheless, that because of his early death he was "in danger of being neglected",Anthony Burgess, The Novel Now: a Student's Guide to Contemporary Fiction, Faber and Faber (1967), page 222 and indeed D. J. Taylor has written that in the post-war years Lodwick's "doomy romanticism sat queerly alongside the comic realism of a Waterhouse or an Amis: Lodwick's reputation did not survive the 1960s."D.
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The Palais de Chaillot, the terraces of which were ornamented with gigantic water cannon fountains, was the main venue, along with the Palais de Tokyo, which now hosts the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris ("Paris Museum of Modern Art") in its eastern wing. The pavilions of the Soviet Union, crowned by a hammer and sickle, and of Germany, with an eagle and swastika on its summit, faced each other in the center of the exhibition. Instead of a spirit of Paris proclaiming international harmony, the juxtaposition of these two foreign pavilions, trying to outdo each other in political grandiloquence, was a reminder that by the late 1930s, besides its other problems, the city was overshadowed by threatening international rivalries.Jones, Paris, p. 392.
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In the few books that he published at significant intervals (Aripi fantastice, 1925; Simfonia vieții, 1943; Bisericuța neamului, 1943), Romantic echoes are found alongside Symbolist motifs, while, critic Rodica Zafiu notes, well-drawn images are eclipsed by an ample tendency toward grandiloquence. His sonnets, reviewer Ion Șiugariu notes, were conventional and prosaic, echoing both Sămănătorul and Parnassianism; although not "a great poet", Munteanu was "earnest", without the "obscurities" of modernist literature.Ion Șiugariu, "Viața poeziei", Revista Fundațiilor Regale, Nr. 11/1943, pp. 445–447 From 1937 to 1938, answering to Justice Minister Vasile P. Sassu, Munteanu worked as general director of penitentiaries. He was on hand to investigate the July 1937 prison riots at Târgu Ocna."Anchetă în legătură cu revolta deținuților de la Tg.-Ocna", Adevărul, July 29, 1937, p. 7 Subsequently, he was a Permanent Councilor to the Legislative Council until June 1945, when he was ordered to retire. From the 1930s, Munteanu and Șerban Bascovici had been the two Symbolists turning to Christian-themed poetry, and were vacationing together at the "writers' home" in Bușteni.Barbu Cioculescu, "Un cuib de poeți", in Litere, Nr. 8–9/2008, p.
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