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"grandiose" Definitions
  1. seeming very impressive but too large, complicated, expensive, etc. to be practical or possible
"grandiose" Synonyms
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That would be a prudent response to our grandiose politics and the grandiose politicians who peddle it.
Death's asides to the reader are both grandiose and morbid.
Brennan's proposal sounds like a grandiose troll, but it's not.
Following his longstanding pattern of poor planning and grandiose appraisal.
The trick here is that plans need not be grandiose.
Flashy ideas and grandiose plans only take you so far.
Some Hindus in the West criticized the temples as grandiose.
To accurately describe how grandiose this film is is impossible.
Hosszu had a herculean work ethic but no grandiose goals.
The topic is rather grandiose: The Fate of the Earth.
My head swims with grandiose thoughts when I'm on Taobao.
Others found this later Robbins to be grandiose and pretentious.
Partly that reflects the tech industry's predilection for grandiose promises.
He is grandiose, entitled, desperate for admiration and so on.
Ohler is unafraid to make his case in grandiose terms.
His notes become increasingly grandiose as he nears his goal.
It's far more morose and grandiose than those lyrics suggest.
But 2016 might signal the end for China's more grandiose architecture.
But there is a serious point hidden amid its grandiose statements.
Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson certainly has a grandiose presence.
Kevin Beasley's installation feels sublime and sacred in its grandiose silence.
Other ambassadors, political leaders and business bosses see something less grandiose.
Candidates can sometimes avoid grandiose mission statements and do quite well.
These full screen messages overlay a grandiose effect on your conversation.
The president, an engineer by training, is fond of the grandiose.
It can also make the smallest of things appear completely grandiose.
Thomson suspects its more grandiose goals are still simply that: goals.
It's all lush strings, grandiose descending guitars, and impassioned soul vocals.
He's shooting for something grandiose—The Cure's Robert Smith, I'd guess.
Only saying things that way around would be far less grandiose.
Those numbers do not change through grandiose rhetoric or good intentions.
They are amused, inquisitive, grandiose, and finally reckless about their powers.
It shares both punk's nihilism and the grandiose ingenuity of Mahler.
Everything seemed grandiose with decor that felt both minimalist and dramatic.
Mr. Trump is hardly the first president to treasure the grandiose.
He's erratic and demanding and grandiose and insecure, all at once.
Their responses to widespread, serious criticism can be grandiose and smarmy.
Julia also grows close to the marvelously grandiose director, Shawn Barr.
On a parlé boutique avec quelques accents lyriques pour faire grandiose.
He has made grandiose gestures that have been applauded by public.
" Jezebel called it "grandiose and cruel," asking, "What the hell, guys?
For Moore's detractors, his actions were an unconstitutional, grandiose, self-serving stunt.
It ought to have some depth — subterfuge, secret meetings, grandiose evil schemes.
Their ambitions were grandiose: create general artificial intelligence, AI that really thinks.
Americans love grandiose projects which sometimes go beyond the scope of reason.
Giamatti's performance is ferocious, and his character often speaks in grandiose allegories.
"Americans love grandiose projects which sometimes go beyond the scope of reason."
Their performances are grandiose extensions of the North Korean cult of personality.
And at the risk of sounding grandiose, it is the world's loss.
In many ways, the AHCA falls way short of Trump's grandiose promises.
And these pixels — they too grow, becoming grandiose, revealing more pixels within.
It's marvelous, it's grandiose, the way she would want it to be.
But a militaristic element has been added to Abu Dhabi's grandiose vision.
But the Europe-Canada deal did not succumb to such grandiose fears.
Donald Trump holds the grandiose belief that only he should rule America.
Mr. de Blasio has made other grandiose pledges to combat climate change.
A section on religion in film caves under too grandiose a scope.
"It's a gesture of respect rather than anything too grandiose," Hume says.
It's a moment as morbidly grandiose as the earlier one was rapturous.
Some have grandiose-sounding names like Occupy Democrats and The Other 240%.
So he dedicated it to his fifth wife in grandiose baroque prose.
It's so grandiose, and gorgeous, and wildly unattainable for 99% of us.
What is it offering at this point but angry and grandiose feelings?
And there was his grandiose vision of the destiny of National Socialism.
Hence his (latest) grandiose description of his election in Tuesday night's address.
Posthumanity is too grandiose a term for what is on the horizon.
In modern movie terminology, "epic" usually just means long, crowded and grandiose.
Trump exhibits insecurity, harbors grandiose fantasies, and shows a tetchiness about criticism.
Civ looked every bit the grandiose venture in world conquering that it is.
Layered with crystalline strings and booming horns, the result sounds grandiose yet intimate.
Despite Apple's grandiose claims — or perhaps because of them — some experts remain skeptical.
At the Hammer, the space feels sublime and sacred in its grandiose silence.
In its usual grandiose style, Forever 21 sells a ton of beauty products.
Such aims are far too grandiose and put everyone under too much pressure.
Your grandiose vision for the next startup isn't enough to keep you motivated.
But no one quite understood just how grandiose a fashion spectacle it'd be.
But until the speculation is addressed, Huger is calling this grandiose spot home.
In a similarly grandiose style, the engraving of Martha Washington is almost lifelike.
It'll sound grandiose, but it's true — I think we live in exceptional times.
GRANDIOSE development projects are so numerous in China that superlatives have been exhausted.
If that sounds grandiose, Milk suggests looking at how far we've already come.
I don't want to sound grandiose, but my daughter is 7 years old.
Instead, the self-consciously grandiose title describes its corresponding album all too well.
Everyone makes grandiose promises of magical results, that rarely if ever work out.
Inside are grandiose portraits of mostly white men in all their colonial splendor.
So it's still unclear if or when these grandiose plans will become reality.
Guaidó fail to wrest control from Maduro before his grandiose stunts begin to
Mr. Trump alternated between rambling statements and grandiose boasts when he wasn't lying.
But judged against its founder's own grandiose vision, the company indisputably has failed.
But Caputo saw the factional battle in less grandiose ideological terms than some.
She has no patience for messianic rhetoric and hyperbolic slogans and grandiose speeches.
It's so grandiose, sleek, and overly finessed that it's not to my taste.
"Finding your purpose is not some grandiose moment," Wineland says in the documentary.
"It wasn't a very grandiose home, but it was really lovely," Landles said.
Mr. Schneider's actual title is a bit more grandiose than his badge description.
Chicago anticipated this generation's style of feminism — pugilistic, sincere, frank and unapologetically grandiose.
That is to say, he is not wooden, self-serious, domineering or grandiose.
Colorful, grandiose gates mark the entrances to Yokohama's Chinatown, the largest in Japan.
He ups the ante with each tweet, making grandiose and often ridiculous statements.
And grab your most grandiose garments and a wig to successfully impersonate Moira.
"This guy clearly was grandiose, delusional and had narcissistic-personality disorder," she said.
Narcissism, for instance, isn't the only explanation for impulsive, inattentive and grandiose behavior.
The suggestion that Mr. Gorka brings new insight is self-gratifying, grandiose malarkey.
I don't think it's time to make grandiose diagnoses about what's gone wrong.
And, he has a "grandiose estimation of self," not unlike that of his subjects.
Grandiose BAT statements about global aims should be taken with a pinch of salt.
At the beginning of 2018, China and Pakistan announced grandiose plans in military cooperation.
He may not even get the funding he wants for less grandiose infrastructure projects.
Like the mosque, Egypt's still-nameless new capital is grandiose, empty and tightly controlled.
Those grandiose words prove the quarantine isn't the culmination of Hiram's king-making strategy.
Last year Astana, the grandiose capital laid out by Mr Nazarbayev, hosted Expo 2017.
"It was a grandiose fraud and you were part of it," Mr Navalny replied.
Thiel himself has been chastised for his similar grandiose visions of offshore sea colonies.
And therefore people [wanted to identify with groups] imbued with grandiose and special features.
It's deluded and grandiose and silly and hopeful, and it is world-historically petty.
To call the fighting that ensues a civil war seems a bit grandiose, though.
"Underground" made many choices that made it more immediate by making it less grandiose.
His racing mind continually conceived grandiose projects that his immature will then let slide.
"Grandiose narcissism appears to correlate positively with healthy self-esteem and extroversion," Papageorgiou says.
"The vision that we had in Fredericksburg was grandiose," Mr. Wilder said in 2014.
Most important, Trump has an extraordinarily grandiose sense of what his power is about.
But he said he would not provide a grandiose motivational speech about upsetting Connecticut.
And also, potentially, you've got more of a grandiose flavor to it as well.
The saxophone keens its melody to the sky, glistening with grandiose pain and awareness.
Erdogan's threats may seem grandiose, but they are entirely credible, officials told Business Insider.
Their grandiose promises to voters have been retracted as wrong or revealed as fraud.
Is Steve Bannon an earnest ideologue or is he a cynical and grandiose opportunist?
"It's a grandiose spending plan," said Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Democratic whip.
It is grandiose, consisting of a baroque chandelier, butterflies, intricately beaded lizard, and flowers.
She also captured less grandiose moments, such as a soldier being disciplined for slouching.
The final day, we entered the most grandiose of the temples, Karnak in Luxor.
The result was a sweeping, grandiose, inherently cinematic comic — just as Ellis had promised.
They're either cloyingly grandiose, or dis­ honest about what usually motivates people in my business.
Translating Rousseau's wisdom into a master plan to rescue our culture may itself seem grandiose.
That might sound pretty grandiose for a productivity app, but the subject clearly fascinates Cox.
Traywick has a penchant for making the sort of grandiose statements a scientist rarely makes.
Musk is prone to setting grandiose targets, only to miss them or dial them back.
This took a foothold after 2011 or so but was preceded by something less grandiose.
Only a well-resourced party like the NSA could deploy such a grandiose surveillance program.
It was a typically grandiose gesture by the attention-hungry Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
Other grandiose projects, such as NEOM, a futuristic city staffed by robots, seem ill-considered.
My previous grandiose plans of making to-order cocktails have failed to come to fruition.
I was distracted by how grandiose — and a tad gauche — it all seemed to be.
For all his grandiose promises to roll back Iran, Donald Trump looked like a bystander.
In the short run Mr Macron may draw flak for unpopular reforms and grandiose tendencies.
He acknowledged it as an "incremental" deal that does not match Trump's grandiose 2016 pledge.
"They'd be in their pink superhero suits, running around, having a grandiose time," Hildebrand says.
Davidson's celebrations and admissions may not sound grandiose, but they stay strong in their clarity.
Commentary about how football is a grandiose and regressive institution rife with misogyny and exploitation?
No pricing, no specs, just 800 pixels by 533 pixels and a few grandiose statements.
The product of hypertrophic egoism, it's as grandiose as it is impractical and likely unsustainable.
Its grandiose steps and impressive art collection attracted more than 7 million visitors in 2017.
This would have worked unless Drake had a grandiose collection of watches we've never seen.
A grandiose vision, obviously, but I think there's something to be said for the idea.
If he didn't talk in such grandiose terms, he might not be president right now.
Bannon touted the "Trump election miracle" Bannon is nothing if not grandiose in his pronouncements.
Ignore for today that much of what he says are grandiose promises based on lies.
Grandiose expectations aside, Dimitrov, at 23, rose to No. 8 in the world in 2014.
The group's 2015 release, "Time River," was both grandiose and immediately rewarding, guided by melody.
This modernized edifice struck many therapists as a behavioral McMansion: an eyesore, crude and grandiose.
Those pesky little things that get lost when a writer relies on grandiose scare tactics.
He adds that an apology doesn't have to be grandiose or televised like his was.
His grandiose personality also fuels his critics' views of him as a general anti-hero.
Bodegas often have grandiose names, but it's the same peanut butter on a high shelf.
This grandiose room with a bath in the center is a popular location for artists.
Here are a some hints: Think grandiose architecture, huge green spaces and lots of coffee.
Donald Trump's authoritarian leanings are on full display nearly every day in his grandiose, paranoid tweets.
The seeds of Elizabeth's grandiose fantasy for her business connect to this paradise lost family mythology.
This may just be clever narrative-building—it's safer to make measured predictions than grandiose ones.
Only Trump could make promises so grandiose that they exceeded the very boundaries of fact-checking.
Kandi Burruss celebrated the big 4-0 in grandiose fashion ... thanks to her VERY generous hubbie.
And we kind of build around those singles, but it's not as grandiose as an album.
From the indulgent exterior curves and lines to the grandiose size and space within the interior.
Among many Sunni tribal and religious figures, grandiose plans for a comeback are losing their lure.
In fact the nation-state law is not as sweeping as Mr Netanyahu's grandiose language suggests.
Les Mis may be grandiose, and, if done right, sneakily affecting, but forgettable it is not.
The grandiose American Enterprise Institute is still plugging away at the small governmentism its donors love.
Or will the card feature Kardashians as we know them: loud, grandiose, and verging on comical?
While I am both self-centered and grandiose, I know that I'm not the very worst.
R.B. The Canadian rockers have long favored grandiose themes, from suburban life to death and grieving.
He simply lacks the character, skills and policy knowledge to turn his grandiose promises into reality.
Adam Marshall [New Kanada, Toronto/Berlin]: When I started, I didn't really have any grandiose ideas.
But the Hacking Arts in ent calls on participants to try something a bit more grandiose.
Bannon himself has a pretty grandiose view of his own powers and definitely has global ambitions.
I think that's a beautiful idea that's often talked about in this really grandiose, utopian way.
Bannon is known for his bluster and for grandiose verbiage describing the stakes of, well, everything.
And to my eyes and ears, Trump still has grandiose intentions in lieu of concrete plans.
Likewise, Michael Mislove's pitifully grandiose Soren, and Greg Chun's bloodless Rainer are perfect foils for Evelyn.
All in all, he recalls no predecessor except, perhaps, Buckminster Fuller, minus Fuller's grandiose self-promotion.
Trump makes this sort of grandiose claim all the time, typically to friendly audiences at home.
It's fitting that Trump would be lauded in such grandiose terms at the March for Life.
With these grandiose interwoven narratives and layers of meanings in between the music, Butler and co.
Their feature sets don't necessarily speak to a grandiose vision from Samsung regarding the company's future.
"Well, listen, grandiose notion of self-worth, pathological lying, lack of empathy and remorse," he said.
But for me, and a lot of drug hunters, we try not to be too grandiose.
But Wilmarth was uncomfortable with such quick, grandiose praise (and besides, he loathed the art market).
The event has shifted from the abstract grandiose domain of art into the personal, familial realm.
Publications started calling it out as incorrect almost as soon as he made the grandiose claim.
The kind of people that Burgo calls "grandiose" narcissists always hold a grievance against the world.
"I knew he wouldn't make the grandiose gesture unless it was the big moment," she said.
I suppose that's grandiose—to think that the assault mattered so much that he'd consider suicide.
But there's still that nagging suspicion that maybe there really is something to Whiterose's grandiose claims.
That means Japan's grandiose global ambitions may prove to be as fleeting as the Olympics themselves.
In 2011, they jettisoned grandiose album concepts for the more stripped-down emotional ride of The Hunter.
From the very beginning of SHAMS, I had always envisioned this record as an incredibly grandiose gesture.
These leaders make grandiose promises of a new world, and need to show that they are delivering.
The size and scope of these rock formations is overwhelming and shows how grandiose nature can be.
Like much Chinese sci-fi, the story is both darker and more grandiose than many Western blockbusters.
It's great for catching people candidly, or turning a selfie into something much more grandiose and hilarious.
Trump's lab "test results were astonishingly excellent," he wrote, mimicking the grandiose verbiage of his candidate-patient.
How many times are people going to offer me the opportunity to make some grandiose, blustery record?
We're told Cardi mulled it over, and liked the idea of making her act even more grandiose.
Although the tournament makes a grandiose pledge to "revolutionize" golf, the change is more evolution than revolution.
But the Bible reminds us as well that leadership doesn't have to be grandiose to be great.
Despite its grandiose title, Netflix's "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile" turns out to be surprisingly forgettable.
He makes grandiose promises to rile up his most fervent supporters, apparently without thinking through the implications.
McKim, Mead and White's grandiose 1893 Beaux-Arts design for the Brooklyn Museum, crowned with 128 statues.
The lighting doubles the architectural space, suggesting a selfie of itself, an imaginary yet grandiose self-portrait.
Now the sons of the Grandiose Mages come to ask him to return them to their lives.
Narcissists — people with a grandiose sense of entitlement — are particularly damaging to be in a relationship with.
It is therefore no surprise that those who seek the office tend to speak in grandiose terms.
Gun-rights advocates also make the grandiose claim that gun ownership is a deterrent against tyrannical governments.
The proprietress's grandiose ideas about what she will do for her guests take up significant space, too.
We don't live in the grandiose fantasies or devastating dystopias that we see in television and film.
Until now, perhaps: "The Death & Life of John F. Donovan" isn't just flat, it's choppy and grandiose.
And a new, humbler version of WeWork may seem a less appealing proposition than his grandiose vision.
ET Monday, and Cramer has little doubt that the event will exceed even Wall Street's grandiose expectations.
That grandiose mental image is a real place — the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque in Brunei's capital city.
I do think self-made is a grandiose term that&aposs like calling a Kennedy and Watson outsider.
Do you think the Queen of England enjoyed The Crown, the grandiose Netflix series about her own life?
Following arrest, he had a brief period of lower mood and then reverted to his grandiose, unrealistic ventures.
Architects' grandiose vision of "streets in the sky" became dark passages prone to crime and anti-social behaviour.
Clams immediately projects himself as a smart, capable guy, the details-minded counterpoint to Lil B's grandiose ideas.
Behind that grandiose name there's a free service to protect websites against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.
"Inspired by nature, created for life" is HTC's customarily grandiose tagline for the admittedly awkwardly named One A9s.
Most Americans want pragmatism that builds toward a better tomorrow, rather than grandiose promises built on unproven ideas.
The incredible thing about the grandiose car on show today was that it was just a two-seater.
Chaotic, corrupt, incurious, infantile, grandiose, and obsessed with gaudy real estate, Donald Trump is of a Neronic temperament.
Inside the massive canvas tents were grandiose chandeliers, golden Moroccan poufs, decorative rugs, full-service bars, and more.
Tax raises, money wasted on grandiose building projects and party corruption elsewhere in Spain brought the PP down.
Maduro made grandiose claims to be socialist, but in reality, his regime prioritized rampant disregard for the citizenry.
Some people still believe this: that the will to rename oneself is naïve at best, grandiose at worst.
It's "Parenthood" crossbred with "The Leftovers," basically—the kind of concept that tilts fast from grand to grandiose.
Mr. Juppé doesn't shout, wave his arms or make grandiose promises — seen as a plus by his supporters.
None of the guests, who include Sam and Clementine's two young daughters, know much about their grandiose host.
"He simply lacks the character, skills and policy knowledge to turn his grandiose promises into reality," he said.
" At Mic, she was able to dabble in different jobs and negotiate grandiose titles like "executive social editor.
You can spot all manner of organisms peppering the walls, lobbies, and steps of Washington, DC's grandiose architecture.
The grandiose ideas and outlandish characters in the tech world are "fun to make fun of," said Judge.
ET Monday, and Jim Cramer has little doubt that the event will exceed even Wall Street's grandiose expectations.
WWE is dedicated to cataloging its own history, and does it in a characteristically weird and grandiose way.
It has entered the cultural lexicon — suitable only for the toweringly grandiose (LeBron) or the deeply immature (Elmo).
I'm not saying it's the biggest or most grandiose albums, but it's the purest that you can get.
Maeve, determined to find her daughter, sees Dolores and sneers at her grandiose monologuing about liberty (which, same).
I sometimes wonder if my ex's girlfriend came to the same conclusion: that real love isn't so grandiose.
Of all Mr. Trump's grandiose claims, his pledge to restore lost manufacturing jobs remains among the most heartbreaking.
Fuller's rather grandiose title promises more than a study of a few New England intellectuals can reasonably deliver.
The Russian Army theater is housed in a grandiose Stalin-era building in the shape of a star.
"Once you get past management's grandiose talks, you have a company that sells hardware and software," Citron said.
Initially, they made little effort to hide, posting grandiose threats against the West on public social media feeds.
People around the world are tuned in -- especially in a Trumpian era of grandiose and often insulting language.
The league is going insane in there, and the corrosive and grandiose smallness within those walls is toxic.
Bannon had a grandiose view of Breitbart, seeing it as the voice of a new kind of conservatism.
At times, the tone was grandiose, with several speakers showcasing the law's repeal as saying something much larger.
Needless to say, every adventure became bigger and better (no pun intended), and more grandiose from there on out.
We were grandiose and we were separated [from fans] and I wanted a way to bring us all together.
This was a detail revealed in TMG's countersuit — the suit used this expense of proof of Depp's grandiose expenditures.
But it is now indisputable that the Rio Games are immeasurably far from fulfilling those first grandiose environmental pledges.
With such grandiose artworks dominating Frieze Los Angeles, the fair caters to the Instagram age more than ever before.
The problem with the Trump administration, however, is that its grandiose statements and outright lies go beyond the political.
The only thing Longoria has decided on is that it if there is a wedding, it won't be grandiose.
Nextera is led by technocrats but their aim is grandiose—to usher in a new generation of energy technology.
Despite the grandiose promises, the pills probably won't make you any healthier (unless you have a medically diagnosed deficiency).
Rather than slashing red tape to set loose his people's talents, Mr Sisi pours taxpayers' cash into grandiose projects.
While the company makes a lot of grandiose promises for social good, it isn't very transparent on its progress
And, eventually, we'll surely be given a true flagship, something as big and grandiose as the Caddies of old.
State fairs and festivals sell some of the most unapologetic and grandiose foods you probably won't find anywhere else.
The director, Ken Loach, who started out in British television in the 1960s, is not known for grandiose spectacles.
Still, I preferred Nézet-Séguin's vitality to the grandiose, studied manner of Daniele Gatti, who led "Parsifal" in 2013.
That sounds terribly grandiose and out of sight, but somehow, I knew this is what I had to do.
It wasn't until Sennett and Connelly researched the lifestyle that their grandiose dreams of living independently seemed within reach.
Its grandiose, manor-like halls are decorated with avant-garde features like zebra-print carpeting and quilted leather walls.
The preserved 1880s Victorian architecture really shines in this grandiose yet intricate nine-story focal point of the hotel.
We spend our hours playing epic-quest video games that stir the grandiose instincts absent from our daily lives.
Your music has always been described as grandiose, bombastic, epic—all very fitting adjectives —with an almost cinematic scope.
"It was a grandiose fraud and you were part of it," he shouted, accusing her of undermining the boycott.
CN: It started in secrecy ... I keep waiting for them to call so I can make my grandiose return.
That's a grandiose vision, but what exactly will happen and what will you be able to do with Libra?
Described as a grandiose doctor with a distinct personality, the elder Hodel was the frequent subject of police investigations.
In front of the cemetery's grandiose Roman Catholic Church, Austria's former federal presidents rest together in the presidential crypt.
This may seem like a grandiose question, given how hard you're working just to pay the bills on time.
Often, the officials who run in these circles are distracted from the issues by grandiose personalities and individual incentives.
" It is too grandiose, he said, to call Sesame a beacon of hope, "but we have shown a way.
But a succession of developers could not overcome financial hurdles, and the project, while always grandiose in vision, stalled.
And yet when the 36-year-old is at the helm, the result never feels like a grandiose statement.
Since the W.T.O.'s formation in 1995, its proponents have oversold it with grandiose promises of dazzling economic gains.
Social structures, communities, and how people organize themselves are more interesting to you than building a grandiose professional reputation.
In addition, a failed presidential bid can be an excellent springboard to launch a less grandiose run for office.
And if recent moves are any gauge, the 21st century will see a surge of new and often grandiose plans.
It's different if you come into the game and you already have this grandiose bravado, but my shit is earned.
In September, China and Russia conducted joint naval exercises in the South China Sea, where China has grandiose territorial claims.
Not because Lohan isn't trying, or because she doesn't deserve it, or because her misdeeds are too grandiose to forget.
"I always believed people are basically good," he wrote in his grandiose explainer on rethinking Facebook's mission statement last year.
And both play those emotions to the hilt, unfolding with a grandiose intensity that occasionally tips over into high comedy.
But that hasn't fuddled his clear yet grandiose plans for each runway show, all executed meticulously and without a hitch.
These convictions can lead them to develop a grandiose view of themselves and a sense that they are being persecuted.
By tomorrow, Kojima fans will have dissected this trailer and found a ton of tiny details that tease something grandiose.
Generally, those who feel powerful and in control expand their upper body, widen their shoulders and use large grandiose gestures.
West Side Story isn't as grandiose a show as Les Mis, nor does it have the razzle dazzle of Chicago.
Spending on industrial policy should shift away from grandiose schemes such as Made in China 2025 towards funding basic research.
With the bright and auspicious track "Love," which features grandiose instrumentals, there is another marker of Del Rey less burdened.
Since her debut, Lavigne's music has struggled to reconcile grandiose, clean pop production with a self-consciously messy, rebellious singer.
Fuath is the latest black metal endeavor from Andy Marshall, the Scottish multi-instrumentalist who's also behind Saor's grandiose vistas.
The grandiose, almost mythical character of the works that resulted is very different from the dim palettes of the Baltics.
It shifts into some kind of dream sequence, turning into a grandiose, overdone waltz for a minute before fading out.
Lebanon was a warning about the dangers of military intervention in pursuit of a grandiose mission in the Middle East.
I made bad choices, but I did not have inexplicable, manic episodes, and I never had grandiose or delusional ideas.
When grandiose promises on the campaign trail aren't kept once attaining power, a party's base becomes demoralized and recriminations follow.
The Messier 87 photograph may not be as grandiose or evocative as the illustrations traditionally used to depict black holes.
She believes if you express your shortcoming in a grandiose way, you have the advantage to persuade the end result.
Now cue the flames for a grandiose Cybertruck entrance that seemed more like the introduction of a celebrity boxing match.
Even the secret codename for Apple's self-driving car efforts is grandiose: "Project Titan" is what it's known as internally.
The shape gives the interior a more grandiose feel, with full 16-foot height on both sides of the structure.
But his groundbreaking sitcoms, especially "The Larry Sanders Show," elevated the shtick into something both more grandiose and more human.
But Boullée's more grandiose designs tended to skirt the limits of feasibility, and thus rarely saw the light of day.
In howling dogs, the escape of virtual reality is only an escape into more fantastical and grandiose forms of imprisonment.
The design for the Olympic stadium was scuppered last year by criticism that it was too grandiose and environmentally destructive.
But the grandiose Woodstock ideals hardly seem to have defined the Woodstock Generation — if a generation can be defined, anyway.
Some had frisky grooves hinting at Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson; one reimagined the grandiose buildups of 1970s power ballads.
Still, whole stretches of the opera came across as splashy and grandiose, an impression reinforced by Mr. Zeffirelli's overblown production.
It also means rethinking India's frighteningly dangerous river-linking project that harks back to an era of grandiose development schemes.
And I cannot wait to dig into these cameras to see if Samsung's grandiose claims have any relationship to reality.
Must we endure another dose of the grandiose self-pity and authoritarian belligerence that have characterized the DC-Warner Bros.
Their spritely, fast-paced punk was replaced by a heavier, portentous sound; it was grandiose, uncompromising and a fitting farewell.
Hatherley takes us down Moscow's deep, grandiose metro stations, which doubled as bomb shelters, and through gentrifying prefab workers' districts.
Which is why Expo brings to mind another of the Soviet Union's grandiose schemes for Kazakhstan: the Virgin Lands Campaign.
He was full of grandiose pledges of infrastructure projects, such as a scheme to cut through the Isthmus of Corinth.
But part of First Love's humor is in the use of familiar types doing familiar things in particularly grandiose ways.
For more grandiose cooking, there's a state-of-the-art communal kitchen in each "neighborhood"—WeLive's name for clusters of floors.
For more grandiose cooking, there's a state-of-the-art communal kitchen in each "neighborhood"—WeLive's name for clusters of floors.
The smaller males still rely on seducing the females with their claws, which appear more grandiose compared with the males' bodies.
The echoes of de Gaulle in all this are startling, and not only in terms of grandiose language and imperious style.
The PP governed the region from 983 until 2015 and pursued a grandiose dream of turning it into a Spanish Florida.
Fitzpatrick is an elvish 63-year-old, whip-smart and funny and prone to describing her work in this grandiose way.
AN EAR-SPLITTING roar of drums and trumpets blasts out of speakers as Bavaria's premier, Markus Söder, makes a grandiose entrance.
Presidents are usually effusive, grandiose, and triumphant when they sign major legislation that will form a huge part of their legacy.
Fifty years ago, nobody would have needed to make a grandiose statement that Budweiser — the "King of Beers" — was America's beer.
More than a natural wonder, it's now something of a highway rest-stop, grandiose in its attempt to cater to tourists.
TEN YEARS and four Egyptian regimes have passed since Barack Obama delivered his grandiose address to the Muslim world in Cairo.
Both India and China have long nurtured grandiose visions of linking and diverting rivers to mitigate the inequity of nature's distribution.
Despite input from others that he could not accomplish what he proposed, he clung to his grandiose plan until the end.
Without being too grandiose, it also feels like the culmination of everything Marvel has built in conquering the pop-culture universe.
It was a fittingly grandiose opening statement, but one for which the Israeli-born entrepreneur feels he has a solution: neuroscience.
It's easy to get wrapped up in Netflix's grand successes and project aspirations on the company that may be too grandiose.
IN NOVEMBER 2500, 2000 of biology's bigwigs met up at the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC, to plot a grandiose scheme.
PA: Yes, Schnabel is a big, grandiose, open-hearted, wear-it-on-your-sleeve artist, and I love that about him.
Others in the GOP are not willing to make such grandiose changes, realizing the effects it will have on their electorate.
The traditional media has spent the past few years being duped by grandiose Donald Trump announcements that wind up leading nowhere.
The report itself is a grandiose airing of the FBI's dirty laundry: Internal disagreements, bad decisions, troubling conduct, insubordination and more.
In doing so, they throw around large numbers of regulations repealed and grandiose claims that simply don't stand up to scrutiny.
He is so impetuous, grandiose, and most importantly convinced of his own superiority that he is unlikely to be scared straight.
There are familiar components, including a bunting line in the foreground, but also much more grandiose structures, and hot air balloons.
Warehouse parties with long DJ sets, big crowds, grandiose decor, and performances will give you the biggest bang for your buck.
The Domaine is grandiose, with 18 kilometers of wine cellars that serve as art galleries dug into ancient Roman chalk pits.
It's no Birth of Venus dress, but Cardi's Thom Browne gown and headpiece were just too grandiose not to be camp.
The hacker then sent a series of cryptic and grandiose emails to members of the media alerting them to the leak.
"Art no longer has to be only about documentation, or portraits of nobles, or even grandiose acts of rebellion," Connelly says.
There was no ill will toward anybody but the N.R.A. Of course some of the student speakers were grandiose and pretentious.
" Yes, Sandler did previously put on the wig and cape of Opera Man, his grandiose "Weekend Update" vocalist, for the "S.
In these comics, it's clear Kirby didn't care if you couldn't keep up with his breakneck speed and garbled, grandiose language.
"We're a team of 15 with very grandiose ambitions," he said of Walker & Company, which is based in Palo Alto, Calif.
Still, hundreds of these public, grandiose gestures happen every year and many proposees walk out of the stadium happily ever after.
What the event lacked in officially sanctioned gravitas, though, it seemed determined to make up for with theater and grandiose proclamations.
Beijing's most grandiose claims in the South China Sea were rejected last year by the U.N.'s top international maritime court.
She and her Nutshell friends — Alligator, Chicken Soup, Johnny and Pierre — make up gruesome and grandiose stories to pass the time.
On a whim, I talked my way past a gray-clad bouncer and climbed a grandiose flight of red-carpeted stairs.
Snider has rejected outsourcing, self-advertising, oversized works, and grandiose claims — all commonplace options in this time of capitalist-riddled aesthetics.
It looks nice but even levels meant to evoke the increasingly grandiose backstory of this edition of Doom left me cold.
Trump's instincts are not neoconservative, and he's skeptical of neoconservatism's more grandiose ambitions to remake the world in America's democratic image.
This exhibition brings his large-scale artworks indoors, to the walls of this grandiose colonial building, which formerly housed a Jesuit college.
Leave it to Richard D. James to shun the anthemic calls of David Bowie's most grandiose number in favor of modest introspection.
Smashing Pumpkins' Siamese Dream is one of the best rock albums ever, a perfect melding of commercial smarts with uninhibited, grandiose ambition.
Adherents to the movement are growing in number, and their plans for redesigning life as we know it have become increasingly grandiose.
The two took turns asking each other grandiose questions, with Pitt poking fun at one of his most iconic movies, Fight Club.
SNL went back to Torres's acquaintance's apartment to capture footage of the actual sink, a grandiose accoutrement in an otherwise mundane bathroom.
I can't offer any grandiose pronouncements on the topic, and I'm not an expert on the levels of domestic violence among veterans.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last week published a 5,800-word open letter that reframed the company's mission in far more grandiose terms.
Maybe all of Magic Leap's grandiose promises might be underwhelming to some who expected to use it for completely immersive entertainment experiences.
Image: GettyThe tech industry relies, in part, on the hot air pulsating forth from its own grandiose delusions to keep it going.
Studio Tender Claws is known for the game Virtual Virtual Reality, which affectionately mocks the more grandiose claims of virtual reality proponents.
It just closed an $11 million Series A. The claim may sound grandiose, but the team and the tech definitely check out.
For similar reasons, bank headquarters have deliberately been built in a grandiose style to emphasise the institution's financial solidity and historical roots.
This information will undoubtedly be useful to Al Gergawi and his team as they work to make their grandiose vision a reality.
There's a level of self-awareness in Aquaman's more grandiose images and plot movements that's certainly been missing from previous DC movies.
We tell grandiose stories about the ones we have loved and lost, carefully weaving their shortcomings together with the memories we cherished.
The most senior local official was known as "Mr Dig Up The City", a reference to his zeal for grandiose construction projects.
While today's electric scooters and bikes are less grandiose than the teardrop racers many anticipated, they are harbingers of the same vision.
It is Simon Drake's House of Magic, a hush-hush dinner and show spectacular inside a grandiose and peculiarly decorated converted pub.
Some might eventually follow suit, while others could use the void created by Microsoft to come up with even more grandiose gags. 
Last night, Kanye West dropped his new video for "Famous" in a pretty grandiose, Kanye way at Los Angeles arena The Forum.
The juxtaposition of grandiose claims with an inability to deliver has eroded Trump's public standing, which was historically weak from the outset.
Because the songs were a little bit more ambitious, I think we had more grandiose notions of how to approach the recording.
Like 4G and LTE before it, expect 5G to exist somewhere the forthcoming technical papers' grandiose promises and what we have today.
Even if VR and 3D isn't totally mainstream tech, it's too established for startups to sell new products with misleading, grandiose promises.
Much of the slideshow ahead showcases both the intimate and grandiose moments that lead to the commercial powerhouse that Dior is today.
The debate about Disney's grandiose plans for "Star Wars" began not long after the studio acquired Lucasfilm in 2012 for $4 billion.
The change of heart by the Eisenhower family was not welcomed by critics who had opposed the design as grandiose and extravagant.
It is a community of affordable subdivisions reached by grandiose landscaped entrances off a 20123-lane highway, attracting young professionals with families.
Bin Ladinism explains all of history, and gives the injured a course of action that will make them feel grandiose and heroic.
Destroying the Islamic State's so-called "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria, some argue, would undercut its grandiose claims and dampen its appeal.
By then, he may have already been fixated on carrying out violence on a grandiose scale, Mr. Molins, the Paris prosecutor, said.
Pyongyang's Mass Games have historically involved more than 100,000 performers participating in a grandiose, flamboyant blend of artistry and North Korean propaganda.
But his history of grandiose statements stretches back years; he first started making unrealistic pledges about Model 3 sedan production in 2016.
In his GOP, policies that were extraordinarily damaging to the poor and to minorities were laundered by grandiose rhetoric about improving opportunity.
He urges people applying for disability payments to beware of third parties such as attorneys and claim representatives who make grandiose promises.
This little-things perspective is needed at a time when America's infrastructure agenda is simultaneously characterized by grandiose ambitions and limited budgets.
"Athens was about the classics, Beijing was grandiose and muscular, London was smart, and ours — ours will be cool," Meirelles told Reuters.
Named after one of Jodhpur's kings, Maharajah Umaid Singh, the grandiose sandstone structure took 15 years to build between 1929 and 1943.
The grandiose expectations placed on actual children have grown wildly out of proportion with the economic reality into which they've been born.
"Tall" is a compact history of the American skyscraper, an unassuming (though hardly unambitious) examination of a grand, at times grandiose, subject.
On Monday, we got our first look at how much Google has sunk into grandiose ventures outside of its core Internet operations.
The track, which acknowledges a love that was "too grandiose," begs the listener not to turn morose in the experience of loss.
It is also backing a grandiose project called Neom, a $500 billion futuristic mega city of self-driving cars and passenger drones.
The title notwithstanding, "Trump Dynasty" is perhaps too grandiose a title for a project that focuses pretty steadfastly on a single person.
Is it weird for The Americans to be so grandiose this early in a season, after being so reserved for so long?
Results showed that "grandiose" narcissists — who are typically extroverted and attention-seeking — are more likely to post photos emphasizing their physical appearance.
Everybody misses the grandiose interiors of the old Penn Station — even if you (like me) weren't alive to see it in person.
They got very elaborate, like the mega posters that Leo Castelli and the wealthier galleries were churning out in a very grandiose way.
The grandiose confections — honestly, they're gingerbread mansions, gingerbread estates — are usually decorated with names from the Kardashian household to which they are dispatched.
Although the country&aposs economy grew by about 7 percent last year, analysts warn this was largely fueled by unsustainable grandiose construction projects.
Beijing has just taken control of a large private company, Anbang Insurance Group, which raised short-term funds to make grandiose foreign acquisitions.
But while the latest published work is genuinely intriguing, outside experts are worried that the researchers' claims to the public are too grandiose.
A doctor conducted a May 20 psychological evaluation, in which he documented that Mitchell had "psychotic and grandiose ideas," according to the lawsuit.
For all his grandiose talk about winning and hyper-capitalist braggadocio, there is something petty and small about how Trump handles his critics.
Currently, Avenge Them has 18 GIFs available, all of which will have you performing grandiose feats of heroism pulled from the Marvel movies.
I think that actually does apply to Joanna, not in the sense of having the grandiose personality, but actually being very, very intelligent.
Renault's hardly a small team, and it spends a full €15 million annually on logistics, but it's dwarfed by Ferrari's grandiose, shining structures.
It sounds like a grandiose generalization to describe anybody as an "artist of our time," but for Signe Pierce, it's an apt description.
Two residencies at the European Ceramic Work Center, in 1996 and 2000, enabled Mukherjee to approach the grandiose ambitions of her fiber sculptures.
Saturn, the planet of rules and regulations, is camped out in disciplinarian Capricorn, helping you ground your grandiose ideas in sensible work habits.
But the City of Love isn't just known for its grandiose sets, the runways are also hubs for gorgeous hair and makeup looks.
Its fundamental flaw is the fundamental flaw of most grandiose decentralized blockchain notions; they are too much, too large, too megalomaniacal, too soon.
In a similar grandiose video posted on Instagram in May, Bezos announced the progress being made on his new Blue Origin rocket factory.
It's a grandiose claim, but if it can solve the problem of shaky in-home WiFi, it might be worthy of an investment.
Maymir continues through perfectly manicured gardens and grandiose rooms, occasionally stopping to speak of Islamic philosophies and architectural techniques incorporated into the design.
Sections of cheerful, melodic ambling are followed by bursts of synths, each grandiose stab punctuated by a split second of silence right after.
He gets to bounce zany humor off Diana's straitlaced hero, and pull faces when she makes grandiose declarations about war and Greek myth.
With Albini, you had the hard and fast drums and vocals, but the newer records have a much more grandiose and tailored sound.
Boogarins, a band from Goiânia, Brazil, with members barely into their 20s, is working an indirect angle on an old and grandiose idea.
There's no reason to take Roger Goodell at his word, really, but it's much easier to do when he is saying something grandiose.
Mr Musk in particular has a track record of combining grandiose aspirations (colonising Mars) and practical success (recovering and relaunching rockets via SpaceX).
At the top of that staircase, you come upon a grandiose marble group by Canova, showing off Theseus cudgeling the centaur to death.
After completion it became known as an architectural failure that was too severe and grandiose — so much so that Vanbrugh never worked again.
" Sanders in his interview slammed Republicans for grandiose promises, mockingly quoting them as saying, "We're gonna repeal ObamaCare, and everything will be wonderful.
Energy, time and money would be better spent teaching youths the dangers of using technology while driving rather than chasing a grandiose dream.
Mr. Lagerfeld is known, after all, for his grandiose show sets: importing an iceberg, recreating an airport terminal, a casino and a brasserie.
Tuesday marked the 70th anniversary of China's communist party, with Beijing holding a grandiose military parade to mark the occasion in Tiananmen Square.
As a simple young man returning from war, I didn't have grandiose hopes for the future, but that changed with this amazing opportunity.
I've seen so many bands try to do this grandiose, faux-improved set piece and it always ends up being this weird thing.
They reverse the trend of imposing, grandiose contemporary art and monumental political art, where individual sensitivity is superseded or shattered by bombastic sensationalism.
" Ms. Collins said of her group, "I see it as incredible content potential and, though this sounds a little grandiose, possibly culture shifting.
Sexuality—and specifically homosexuality—in this performance is simply a fact, rather than a grandiose statement, and what a beautiful thing that is.
Mr. Nozkowski rejected the grandiose Abstract Expressionism of his youth and created modest, colorful and self-contained abstract works with his own stamp.
Named after one of Jodhpur's kings, Maharajah Umaid Singh, the grandiose sandstone structure took 15 years to build and was completed in 1943.
Mr. D'Agata frames himself as a grandiose, don't-you-dare-unweave-my-rainbow-type Byronic villain; Mr. Fingal frames himself as a pedant.
His playing is crisp and vertical and grandiose; he often seemed to be headed toward some big argument about finality, or totalistic power.
Yet neither artist romanticizes or trivializes our planet's climate emergency; their uses of digital screens and virtual spaces are not grandiose or slick.
"It's a grandiose spending plan," Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, said in a recent interview.
Originally commissioned by Mussolini, the building's grandiose architecture stands in stark contrast to Penone's work, which deals primarily with nature and the elements.
In reality, however, the former Harvard professor is hoping you will not do the math yourself when it comes to her grandiose pitch.
If the grand planners of the Mall were slightly grandiose, the late-century modernists zagged too far toward a tacky, post-human future.
The big reveal coincides with the company's latest releases, including new iPhones and an Apple Watch — an appropriately grandiose homecoming for new gear.
The Games are typically a grandiose mix of performance art and North Korean propaganda which reflect the values of unity and political will.
But bashing minorities and making grandiose promises go only so far to compensate for the lack of governing competence or a coherent program.
There are nine traits used to identify narcissistic personality disorder (things like "requires excessive admiration" and "has a grandiose sense of self-importance").
The mere size of the field forced lagging contenders to make ever more grandiose promises, some of them dubious economically or questionable legally.
He only ran the "earth's biggest bookstore" – a grandiose claim that irked many then, even if it would prove to be true soon enough.
"  It was right around this moment that Twitter collectively freaked out wondering if Lemonade was Beyonce's grandiose way of saying "I want a divorce.
The CPP has directed funds to grandiose malls and real estate projects, which give the appearance of progress, but only benefit an elite few.
Grandiose narcissists look more like what we typically think of when we hear the label—they tend to be obnoxiously bold, overconfident, and arrogant.
And unlike other funeral homes that masquerade as grandiose mansions, 1067 Madison's exterior is discreet, with few architectural elements to pique a person's interest.
Most of it went on the grandiose schemes of Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, the authoritarian president and self-proclaimed "Protector", or was distributed to his cronies.
If anything, Adoptly did succeed in saying something about the grandiose claims companies often make about the potential for change coming from Silicon Valley.
However grandiose, Pepsi's goal is that visitors — particularly influential ones — will talk about Kola House on Facebook and Twitter and post pictures on Instagram.
"Perhaps grandiose narcissists are so good at protecting themselves with defenses that it does shelter them against stress and negative mood states," Durvasula said.
They say they started their work with "grandiose" ambitions to build a deep learning bot that wouldn't just talk to you but debate you.
The security industry is, unfortunately, one plagued by snake-oil salesmen whose grandiose claims about making systems impervious to attack almost always prove fraudulent.
He was a man who thought and wrote and dreamed a grandiose destiny for himself, starting from the moment he could hold a quill.
Zuckerberg and Chan's grandiose pledge to stamp out all diseases, no matter how well-intentioned and aspirational it is, oversimplifies what this would mean.
On Ancestors, Payment's drums take a back seat, providing balance, nuance, and depth while the strings and vocals fulfill grandiose ambitions and ancient prophecies.
There's a grandiose Neurosis influence and nods to Amenra's primal thunder, but it all comes tarnished with shades of Iron Monkey's down-tuned misery.
Three chords and a press conference in the grandiose Bloomsbury mansion to which you invite all of the most reputable journalists in the country.
The reviews of Spider-Man: Far From Home are rolling in and critics have mixed feelings about the epilogue to Marvel's grandiose Infinity saga.
The fights are shorter and lack Lee's elegance and grandiose sweep, and the wire-work is kept to a minimum until the climactic battle.
In a way we've never done that before, and the challenges are that much more grandiose and beautiful with locations that were just breathtaking.
Instead, it's a grandiose speech which builds into a strange mix of Scar bellowing and singing the words "Be Prepared" at the very end. 
Homes in Xiaoshan are a mixture of grubby apartment blocks and grandiose four- and five-storey homes decorated in joyous combinations of pastel colours.
To an extent, this was a typical Trump bluff: A grandiose claim, appearing to take hostages in an attempt to pressure Democrats in Congress.
The failed chorale assumes properly grandiose proportions, although it is undercut by an over-the-top cascade of double octaves, doubled goofily by glockenspiel.
Last week, Tesla announced that it would build a new Gigafactory — Tesla's term for a rather grandiose term for a car plant — near Berlin.
The report quoted Mr. Li as saying that excessively grandiose or strange names for roads, bridges, buildings and residential compounds would also face scrutiny.
Her vocal chords vibrate with ill will and secrets, lending Eye of Nix a certain operatic touch by way of grandiose, subversive 80s goth.
Theatrical but not grandiose, with an edge of humor, it's a cannily judged introduction to the work of Ms. Levete and her practice, AL_A.
This work illustrates for me the very palpable gap between what it sometimes grandiose discourse about visual work and the lived experience of it.
But more importantly, these are the most grandiose and cinematic Mountain Goats songs in the band's catalogue, washed with strings, saxophone, and pristine production.
In an era that rewards outsize personalities and grandiose dreams — "Go big or go home," as the saying goes — staying small seldom brings kudos.
It may seem a small thing, but — at the risk of sounding grandiose — I see it as a sign of a civilization in decline.
While sports venues are often eager to attach grandiose adjectives to their premier events, the fact that Royal Ascot is genuinely royal is unassailable.
The classic parks, Yosemite and Yellowstone, matched nineteenth-century ideas of the sublime, their grandiose scenery celebrated by Albert Bierstadt and other landscape painters.
The psychiatrists characterized the slightly built Mr. Roof as both childlike and grandiose, and noted his flat affect, incongruent jokes and dearth of empathy.
Williams—who, as a child, was smothered by his grandiose mother and tormented by his seething, frequently absent father—revered, craved, and feared love.
Environmental damage was ignored or hidden, and grandiose promises of how the project would benefit depressed communities with nearly 500,000 new jobs proved false.
Steffens said she has relished the expat experience, admiring her new city amid strolls along Margaret Bridge and past the grandiose Hungarian Parliament Building.
With the origins of Trump's long con revealed, historians, scholars and the President's political opponents now have facts to counter his grandiose, self-constructed image.
In her narrative history A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman describes a similarly grandiose, yet very real fortress that once loomed over 14th century northern France.
He would get too big, and he would be banned; he would get too weird or grandiose, and he would stop being worthy of attention.
But one trait that proved tough to mimic was Voigt's application of grandiose classical recordings as the (deconstructed) building blocks of his loops and drones.
Traipsing through these thumbnails of cities past, what can we say about whether the half-a-trillion Neom will fulfill its grandiose promise and dreams?
" Recommended by Rumman Chowdhury, Responsible AI lead at Accenture "An AI book with no robots, no doomsday scenarios, and no grandiose predictions of the future?
The title "American Crime" is both generic (you might mistake it for FX's coming "American Crime Story," about the O. J. Simpson case) and grandiose.
Two years ago, a UN tribunal at The Hague ruled against China's grandiose territorial claims in the sea in a case brought by the Philippines.
In pushing such grandiose schemes, the crown prince may want to create the sense of a bright future, and a testing-ground for new ideas.
Her fantasy was the musical theater part of the movie; director Rob Marshall effectively used musical theater and its grandiose styling to highlight Roxy's delusion.
"Self confidence, even to the extent of grandiose sense of self-worth, is also a good quality that may help you in life," says Galynker.
But it was Chanel that propelled him to rock-star status, as he sexed up the brand and lifted its profile with grandiose runway shows.
If you haven't been able to see his work at a museum, you can get a glimpse of his grandiose paintings on your smart phone.
Public events supporting the Franco regime were outlawed in 2007, but the grandiose site remains a popular pilgrimage destination for those nostalgic for the dictatorship.
Watch: Margaret Atwood on Abortion, Twitter, and Predicting Everything We're Doing Wrong Versailles, a lavish and grandiose period soap, at times takes itself very seriously.
To some, the identity of the putschists' leader, Ammon Bundy, suggests an even less grandiose motive: the desire to make a buck using public assets.
But if many of his more grandiose dreams are broken, he's become ever more committed to a narrower and more focused, but equally pernicious agenda.
On our televisions, The West Wing fooled us into thinking that grandiose monologues delivered by clever white people could right any wrong in the world.
That sounds grandiose, but hear me out: it's streaming platform, launched in December of 2013, costs $10 a month, and is available around the world.
Here's a grandiose image of the expansive Cook Ice Shelf meeting the sea, which looks like it's covered in a thin layer of sea ice.
Malls may be dying across the U.S., but in the grandiose desert capital of tiny, petro-rich Qatar, they are sprouting up left and right.
Beginning during his late teen years, his episodes would escalate fast into grandiose bouts of mania, followed by miraculous recoveries after months of incomprehensible behavior.
Omitted from his donor profile, Aggeles had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, narcissistic personality disorder, drug-induced psychotic disorder, and significant grandiose delusions, the Star reported.
Some critics of the memorial, such as the National Civic Art Society, remain opposed to the design, which they have characterized as ugly and grandiose.
Finally, the most grandiose result of the photographic enterprise is to give us the sense that we can hold the whole world in our heads.
" Niru goes on: "Symptoms may vary but are exceptionally pronounced upon return to native soil and include hyperactivity, elevated mood, grandiose thinking and increased aggression.
But hashtags and grandiose promises aside, the Social Democrats offer no shift to the left, which is what they would need to regain some support.
He conveys the grandiose manner of many older gang members, and their attraction to pseudo-intellectual sophistry (one character considers himself an acolyte of Machiavelli).
The middle of the country has a tortured romance with its train stations, often grandiose structures that shaped local history but stopped serving a purpose.
A place has been left next to his first wife Sally's grave within the grandiose structure, which North Korean architects helped design soon after independence.
"Gambia has no prestige projects, no grandiose spending projects, no political prisoners, no army and no defense budget," The New York Times wrote in 1977.
"Gambia has no prestige projects, no grandiose spending projects, no political prisoners, no army and no defense budget," The New York Times wrote in 1977.
With its willingness to ride roughshod over all established certainties and ways of life, classical utopianism was too grandiose, too rationalist and ultimately too cold.
While this was a bold demand, I knew I had to take a step back and consider what made him make such a grandiose ask.
The Great Hall of the People was built in 1959, the most grandiose of a burst of buildings erected during the feverish Great Leap Forward.
" And for all his doomsaying, he sees basic weaknesses in these challengers that, with enough American resolve, will stop them from "implementing their grandiose dreams.
It definitely matches up with the standards Khaled set for the record, "I Got the Keys" is as grandiose a mission statement as you could want.
"The president's history so far tends to be grandiose statements, followed by a more practical landing — but it takes a while to get there," said Kinahan.
Others saw the document as blandly grandiose, showcasing Zuckerberg's tendency to suggest that the answer to nearly any problem is for people to use Facebook more.
However, all of them are under the same pressure to look impossibly well put-together at any given moment, setting impossible, grandiose standards for everyday civilians.
Grandiose talk about "the values of Instagram," starting with the principle of "being people first," looks silly given its context — the introduction of in-app checkout.
I was also at odds with the city's grandiose architecture, the might of the English language, and how colonial history was very rarely taught at school.
Mr Trump's typically grandiose claim that he was "sending an armada" to nearby waters added to local fears of an April crisis for the Korean peninsula.
Brigitte Luis Guillermo Baptiste, the Humboldt's director and herself an ecologist, says she was sceptical about the likelihood of a grandiose project like Colombia BIO succeeding.
Lots of female founders I know think of their model in terms of being a smaller idea while male founders feel more comfortable making grandiose statements.
I'm especially fond of how natural voices sound through these headphones, something that even grandiose planar magnetic monsters like the $3,799 Final D8000 can't improve on.
The battle is internal: It's the boredom, it's the — I hope this doesn't sound grandiose — but it touches on the role of art in our lives.
Maisel knew she was in for a big night, so she could have made a grandiose fashion statement in a big dress and lots of jewels.
And when the concept is as grandiose as the early plans for Project Ara, there's going to be more parts than usual left in the lab.
Warhol's work is known for its appropriation of the mass media and marketing industries, and Serra's by his appreciation for the grandiose weight of his medium.
I also wondered about that title: for an album that seems in some ways to revel in mundanity, it's certainly a bit of a grandiose name.
Even before oil prices started to fall in 2014, the supermajors threw money away on grandiose schemes: drilling in the Arctic and building giant gas terminals.
"Not to be grandiose about it, but life is kind of like that," says Alia Shawkat, the show's lead actress who plays Dory, a young Brooklynite.
"The president started off with some grandiose, concrete wall, sea to shining sea, paid for by Mexico and implanted that image in people's mind," Durbin said.
In reality, the process of naming tanks, artillery guns, and rocket launcher systems isn't as grandiose as the people arguing are making it out to be.
All of the evidence showed that grandiose narcissism tended to be correlated with traits that help you succeed, such as mental toughness, confidence and goal-orientation.
But if you're going to make a grandiose statement, especially when you can't prove it, don't be surprised if you get tuned out in a hurry.
Each of the dormitories at Maulbronn, for instance, had a grandiose name; Hesse lived in Hellas, a tribute to the school's conventional idolatry of ancient Greece.
" Martin Bernheimer, in The Los Angeles Times, wrote that Shapero revealed himself a "superb craftsman," an "artist totally in control of the grandiose variables at hand.
Bannon is by no means the first political operative in history to use grandiose malapropisms to impress gullible onlookers, but he may be the most influential.
The frugal Pope Francis decided not to used the villa - similar to but smaller than some of Europe's royal residences, judging it too luxurious and grandiose.
Grandiose declarations of Europe's independence on the world stage corresponded with growing strategic vulnerability to Russia and the Middle East and deepening military dependence on Washington.
If she wins the lottery, her grandiose plan for the money involves massive shopping sprees, gallivanting around the globe and eating at the world's best restaurants.
They keep two sets of books, function with two different brains, and buy in — at least partly — to Trump's grandiose message: You'd be worthless without me.
The gnawing fear of failure; the grandiose but vague creative hopes scuttled for money; the resentment of artistic pretension: it's all straight from the Yates playbook.
Instead, he came close to humiliating Mr. Putin to his face, about chemical weapons in Syria on Monday, in the deliberately chosen grandiose setting of Versailles.
He has very little discernible personality: He doesn't have Sophia's insatiable intellectual curiosity or El's philosophical rigor and ambition, and he's too grandiose to be funny.
And overblown, grandiose versions of the "Messiah" can be as thrilling as any performance with a small ensemble of period instruments and a chorus of 20.
Adding a little bit of moving air can turn a normal looking dog into a grandiose beast, ready to take on any challenge you put forth. Fetch?
Live, he endlessly loops his violin into knotty and grandiose arrangements, but for his latest album Omoiyari the simplicity of kindness, love, and loss takes the forefront.
A narcissist tends to be "exceptionally good at projecting a grandiose vision and getting followers behind it," but they steal all credit and demand subservience, he says.
It's implied that the next morning, Lorelai and Luke will actually wed in the grandiose ceremony of Emily Gilmore's dreams, but we, the viewers, never see it.
I had grown up in a small town in West Virginia, where grandiose, lumber boom-era architecture mingled with modest storefronts, wooden frame houses, and occasional squalor.
His grandiose mannerisms, tax hikes, and opposition to European populism have found him on the receiving end of sharp criticism – even from allies in his own movement.
Eventually, Lionel compiles a list of 12 societies with grandiose names straight out of a Dan Brown novel: Knights of Elam, Scribes of Carthage, and yes – Illuminati.
Like a number of his other grandiose campaign promises, Donald Trump likely will find that peeling apart Dodd-Frank gradually will be easier than tearing it asunder.
But the winner should be Kaluuya or Chalamet, two actors whose performances elevated the films they were in — and, not to be grandiose, the film industry itself.
His all-white and all-gold works evoke luxe Baroque prints, transporting the viewer far from the artist's utilitarian space and into their grandiose and dramatic patterns.
Known for his grandiose plans, he often told friends he would divide his will into pieces and give them away to people who didn't know one another.
The only problem with the speech—mellifluous, grandiose, hopeful, and intellectual, as many of Obama's other speeches have been—was the world in which he delivered it.
The music produced by the Beatles' synthesis of rock with the British music hall and extraneous non-rock noises is hardly grandiose; it lacks high-art aura.
A year from now, you'll be able to resell your iPhone 7, provided you've taken good care of it, and jump aboard Apple's grandiose 10th-anniversary iPhone.
It looks nothing like the grandiose main entrance, whose hundreds of Medieval stone carvings make it one of the most recognizable images of Paris around the world.
Of course, the Kremlin wants to flaunt Kaliningrad as a Russian military foothold in the West by calling attention to its grandiose stadium during the World Cup.
Researchers also classified narcissism into two broad categories: "grandiose narcissism," which is characterized by exhibitionism and dominance, and "vulnerable narcissism," which is associated with negativity and distrust.
Musk is not known for setting himself modest targets, but he has largely delivered on his grandiose promises this year, shipping vehicles at record rates in 2019.
The United States military spent the week transporting tanks and other military equipment into Washington, D.C., for a grandiose military-centered celebration organized by the White House.
The former White House economists say those claims are not based in reality, and "exceed even the most grandiose predictions" from Republicans touting their tax cut plans.
Both have laid out grandiose visions for space colonization, and have even sparred with each other in trying to assert that their own plan is the best.
The action shifts to Moscow and assorted gruesome and grandiose interiors in which Khrushchev and the rest take turns organizing the funeral and their own uncertain futures.
Putin and el-Sisi have since staged grandiose announcements about trade agreements, an industrial zone in the Suez Canal and the construction of a nuclear power plant.
Throughout these grandiose scenes, no one is more othered or shocked from the spectacle than the most "foreign" Asian subject who just arrived from America: Rachel Chu.
It may sound grandiose to suggest that fox hunting gear is a forerunner of contemporary sportswear or even the concept of clothing whose function entirely dictates form.
While many start-up founders use their I.P.O. prospectus as an opportunity to wax poetic about their companies' grandiose missions, the founder's letter from Pinterest was short.
Just one of many examples: Stuart abandons his loving parents to pursue his grandiose mission, without so much as a goodbye note or occasional "I'm O.K." postcard.
Once you've honed in on an object of affection, you like to dote on them in grandiose ways, showering them with compliments and giving them extravagant gifts.
"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 100%What critics said: "With even more epic set pieces and a grandiose scale, Season 3 completely outdoes the two that preceded it.
All this radiating out from "Dice," which he calls both an epic poem and a masterpiece, though to my mind it is neither — rather a grandiose failure.
It would cost around $300bn a year, less than the grandiose proposals pitched in the Democratic presidential primary, such as a universal basic income and free college.
But works by Kawara, Opalka and two-dozen other Conceptual relatives do make an enlightening if somewhat grandiose background to the perennially renewable photographs of August Sander.
Capcom navigated the increasingly grandiose and uninteresting plot developments in the series by simply placing Resident Evil 7 far, far away from anything that could touch it.
It lacks the ear for melody and narrative possessed by Discovery—which remains their masterpiece—nor does it bear the grandiose self-worth of Random Access Memories.
The outfits coming down the pink carpet were opulent, grandiose, and avant-garde in every way — from Cardi B's crystal-studded fingernails to Lady Gaga's huge metallic eyelashes.
Trump has admitted to not preparing for past depositions and often is forced to walk back some of his more grandiose claims -- due to concerns about perjuring himself.
Click here to view original GIFImage: "Fistful of Stars"; Gif via GizmodoIt's easy to feel small and insignificant in the grandiose scope of the universe, because we are.
And though he speaks softly, Spieth carries a big proverbial stick, or 14 of them, preferring to let his clubs do the talking rather than make grandiose predictions.
Vautier continues to state this grandiose "all is art" speculation as fact in a Nietzschean, will-to-power way that plays well to mass media and pop culture.
Signs of a narcissist Narcissism is characterized by grandiose self-regard, a need for attention and admiration, vanity, a sense of entitlement and an exploitative attitude towards others.
The Reader was owned at the time by Michael Ferro, a digital entrepreneur with a short attention span and grandiose visions who'd purchased the Sun-Times in 2011.
But even the most grandiose of dreamers couldn't have imagined that Amazon's annual revenue would have exceeded more than half of the world's gross domestic product by 2011.
Other companies, like Elon Musk's Neuralink and Bryan Johnson's Kernel, are also pursuing brain-computer interfaces, though with more grandiose visions of turning us into smarter, faster cyborgs.
Miss Suu Kyi made grandiose statements, the army chief made vague promises, the ethnic-army leaders stated their positions and everyone promised to meet again early in 2017.
In a briefing in a hotel suite at CES this week, CEO Tim Enwall and Head of Product Ian Bernstein laid out a fairly grandiose roadmap for me.
Apple is not exactly the most modest company, and it has a long tradition of grandiose commercials with an air of self-importance that borders on self-parody.
Whatever Mr Sikka's flaws—a propensity for grandiose "thought leadership", a penchant for private jets—he communicated a clear vision of how Infosys must transform its business model.
Those features, like the grandiose single rear taillight, are finally things that seem there just for the sake of being design flourishes, but I think those are forgivable.
At 36 minutes, the album is a paragon of concision; he's packed enough fury and invention to sustain a grandiose statement into a pathologically tight, controlled, restrained structure.
The result is that companies get to publish grandiose company blogs where they take a stand about defending democracy, and in the same breath, promote their latest products.
And while retail giants once did well in grandiose shopping spaces, that real estate has now proven to garner more value in serving the needs of millennial workers.
If Jay had elected to go for the grandiose sound of 2013's Magna Carta, it would have been impossible for these songs to hit the same way.
And afterward, confronted with the biggest, most grandiose meal of the year, odds are high that he'll eat extra, to make up for the calories he just burned.
The twisted swan song of HBO's grandiose work of ambition culminated in an open-ended finale the caught up with characters years after they've already sustained significant loss.
He rejects professionalism because it tempers self-promotion and forbids such grandiose claims as his insistence that he knows more about the Islamic State than any military general.
"The president started off with some grandiose, concrete wall, sea to shining sea, paid for by Mexico, and implanted that image in people's mind," the senator said Wednesday.
Of course, it didn't hurt that these were the two most unpopular candidates for U.S. president in modern history and that they were grandiose personalities to begin with.
Mr. Gujabidze said Mr. Saakashvili's projects at least benefited from a kind of vision, however impulsive or grandiose, while those of his successors are all about the money.
It's classic Resident Evil The police department is a beautiful gothic building that used to be a museum, which accounts for its dramatic main hall and grandiose statues.
Mr. Guelman had a grandiose vision of transforming Perm to demonstrate to Russia's other lethargic provincial cities how they could become vibrant cultural capitals in their own right.
This high-energy city has everything — thermal baths, an abundance of shopping areas and yummy cafes, plus tours of its grandiose opera houses and famed Hungarian Parliament building.
I find this process astounding; I think in my work that's what I'm trying to grasp—taking all these grandiose ideas and bringing it back down to earth.
As such, David's art, which drew inspiration from Roman antiquity, reflects the end of France's monarchy-aristocracy and abolition of the Feudal system, even while looking incredibly grandiose.
Macron, who at 40 could be Trump's son, has honed a grandiose theater of the center, thereby giving centrist politics new vigor at a time of extremist temptation.
In some cases, intense shame can create dark personality types like narcissists, because they drive their self-hatred inwards and put on a grandiose front to protect themselves.
Consider the other grandiose projects within Alphabet — self-driving cars, Internet balloons and the longevity-research lab Calico — that don't appear to face pressure to generate cash immediately.
But the most obvious way Mr. Erdogan has left his mark stands before the eyes of any visitor: grandiose monuments and infrastructure investments in just about every town.
"That's another sign of pressure on MBS to come through with his grandiose plans for the kingdom, or at this point just hold the economy together," said Kilduff.
What Democrats see as self-pity and grandiose posturing, working-class Florida Republicans see as a man outspokenly demanding his rights in a way they wish they could.
Much of that growth was fueled by grandiose construction projects favored by Mr. Erdogan's administration, the foundations of which the markets, economists and the president's critics have questioned.
" Dream Date: "We would assemble all of the junk food, order a pizza and Chinese food and spend the night watching movies in a grandiose Gilmore Girls' fashion.
The country's first blockbuster set in space, "The Wandering Earth," opens Tuesday amid grandiose expectations that it will represent the dawning of a new era in Chinese filmmaking.
When we constantly conjure the direst scenarios, we risk looking like ignorable hysterics — and bolstering his grandiose claims of martyrdom — if events unfold in a less damnable fashion.
It was just a grandiose name for a series of real estate seminars that promised participants they could learn the financial secrets that made Donald Trump so successful.
Given Disney's grandiose movie plans for the fcranchise, faith in its "Star Wars" stewardship will be built on delivering projects worthy of those familiar strains of John Williams' music.
It says breastfeeding is great, and we should help people do that if they want to, but we may want to dial back some of the more grandiose claims.
The grandiose Green New Deal, which excites those worried about climate change, essentially enables control over how we choose to live and travel, and even what food we eat.
A 2006 meta-analysis of 23 psychological studies showed that impulsivity is strongly associated with grandiose narcissism, for which there are a handful of pharmaceutical interventions that may help.
To some extent, I read a lot about sociopaths, where they have this grandiose idea of themselves and that they're more intelligent than everyone else and all these things.
If you can't make it to the Christmas festivities, you might want to try for the spring, when the resort is home to an equally-grandiose Easter egg display.
I came, I saw, and I took pictures of the Rimac Concept Two at the Geneva Motor Show, but I was left somehow unimpressed by this grandiose new hypercar.
The rough acting style pioneered by the first Danjuro (who was stabbed to death on stage in 1704) is particularly demanding, full of melodrama, sword swinging and grandiose gestures.
As grandiose as Adderall makes some people feel, the history of amphetamine as a drug of subjugation—used to compel obedience in soldiers, dieters, and unruly kids—haunts it.
Of course, the grandiose claim he's making here may yet prove untrue—there's still close to six months left this year—but either way, Omar's still better than most.
It seems to me that this is an area where Germany and its euro partners should make urgent progress instead of wasting time debating sterile and grandiose integration projects.
GRANDIOSE statements from the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) are the region's Christmas crackers: they appear at regular intervals, create a commotion but contain little of substance.
I can imagine that it would be hard to agree to appear on such a grandiose list after his wife was robbed at gunpoint less than a year ago.
The company makes grandiose claims about creating economic opportunity — CEO Jeff Weiner said this week that LinkedIn will be the answer for workers who lose their jobs to robots.
The grandiose subtitle of my book — 'On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself' — isn't meant to imply that I, or anyone else, actually has the answers.
Breggin said Carter was in the grips of a "grandiose" delusion that she alone could help Roy find his way to heaven and she would care for his family.
Early in the new millennium, the EU's eastward expansion, transatlantic rifts and a mild economic climate together produced a wave of grandiose claims about the European model's sunny future.
That program effectively cemented the view among many Western Canadians that their provincial natural resources were expected to serve as the funding source for Eastern Canadian politicians' grandiose schemes.
And the confidence and sense of accomplishment that people exhibiting grandiose narcissism gained seemed to offset any negative feelings of stress and depression that those traits might otherwise cause.
The grandiose claim was part of a broader call for voters to turn out in next month's midterm elections to back Republican candidates who face a challenging electoral landscape.
The politics of climate change are such that leaders making grandiose carbon commitments on the world stage are likely to find their positions undermined rather than bolstered at home.
But driving such grandiose climate change on the planet — which is now fueling widespread drought and pummeling storms — isn't just expected to devastate lives, it's expected to cost trillions.
Common reactions include shame, self-blame, horror and a feeling of loss of hope, or else thinking that they were somehow naive or grandiose for thinking they could help.
Not to be too grandiose about it, but the more I think about it, this is a challenge for our city and our country that nobody is grappling with.
The opening last fall of the grandiose Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town — hailed as Africa's answer to Tate Modern — also drew attention to this issue.
But Democrats set the shape of the bill, even as Trump was proposing the grandiose notion of a payroll tax holiday, which has been panned even by conservative economists.
But Democrats set the shape of the bill, even as Trump was proposing the grandiose notion of a payroll tax holiday, which has been panned even by conservative economists.
In their prolific career they've embraced sonic progression, using various genres as tools to further a greater vision of how music can evoke feelings both grandiose and devastatingly intimate.
We agreed to meet in Palermo, where we could visit the city's sunstruck churches, with their grandiose, almost careless accretion of centuries of styles, and converse along the way.
He had served as the director of two different European institutions with grandiose names but no accreditation, and he had left two jobs dogged by suggestions of financial impropriety.
Napoleon may have ruled for only some 15 years, but his empire-expanding mind-set, brilliant victories like the one at Austerlitz and his grandiose style continue to resonate.
Now completed with the help of some of Welles's friends and associates, the movie follows a grandiose filmmaker (John Huston) as he struggles to adapt to a changing Hollywood.
A 1947 view of a dark Manhattan canyon, with a shaft of light in the distance, plunges all the way down to the root of New York's grandiose loneliness.
"There's been a very violent reaction at times," Ms. Hidalgo said, smiling slightly in an interview in her cavernous office at the grandiose Hôtel de Ville, the City Hall.
After traveling from Germany with Mr. Maas and his entourage on Friday, the painting was solemnly unveiled at the ceremony in the grandiose Stucco Hall of the Pitti Palace.
The younger Mr. Speer's impact on urban landscapes was ultimately far greater than that of his father, whose grandiose architectural plans for the Nazi Third Reich were never realized.
Many of the left's grandiose ideas aren't just remote from the everyday concerns of voters, they are unpopular with the very voters Democrats need to win crucial swing states.
On Tuesday, the country's National Day, he will preside over a military parade through Tiananmen Square whose preparations appear as ambitious and, arguably, as grandiose as the leader himself.
My new prospective home was a fortresslike tower with four blue Disney-esque roofs and a vast lobby not unlike the grandiose John Portman hotel atriums of the 239s.
It's possible that he believed they were laughing with him when, at least to my watching/listening, they were laughing at him -- or at least at his grandiose claim.
And the job title is changing, too: Mr. Martins was the company's ballet master in chief, a grand, perhaps grandiose title; the new leader will be an artistic director.
Some even include automatons that come to life when the organ player starts feeding the book music — in the form of thick, perforated cardboard cards — into the grandiose instrument.
His art practice, since its inception — according to him, that's nearly as long as he's been alive — functions in the same manner, grandiose and theatrical because he is, too.
That seems like bad news in comparison with the grandiose promises, and flimsy, eye-popping research that was used to prop up the initial wave of interest in microfinance.
The grandiose or tyrannical put up monuments; writers make sure their books are deposited in libraries; the multitude order gravestones and label photographs, though all this floats in impermanence too.
Possessing some narcissistic traits could actually be beneficial in certain contexts—grandiose narcissists are often achievement-oriented, charming, and successful—but those traits become far less desirable in romantic partnerships.
But while these claims might look like the sort of grandiose boast made by any company marketing their wearable technology, Apple is seemingly putting their money where their mouth is.
The bygone days of piracy, plantations and the old red-light district inspired historical fantasia; the grandiose cemeteries and practitioners of voodoo nurtured tales of the supernatural, witches and vampires.
Both parks are in a remote region of southern Chile known for its grandiose mountain scenery, untracked Andean peaks and rare species of wildlife, including mountain lions and Andean condors.
It's important to emphasize that the researchers were specifically focusing on assessing grandiose narcissism—a form of narcissism linked to extraversion and an inflated view of your own physical attractiveness.
But it isn't easy to stomach his habit of putting down everyone he sees with a grandiose aphorism, and of addressing a supposedly Native American actress as Pocahontas and Minnehaha.
"The Big Ship" is the banger, a grandiose instrumental dirge that's hopeless, hopeful, happy, sad, and somehow always seems to get a speck of dust into both of my eyes.
The track, "Play N Go," soars, clangs, and glitters throughout its four-minute duration, punctuated by grandiose, drawn-out chords that could make club walls crumble at the right volume.
They are both also engaged in passionate extramarital affairs: Michael with Lucy (Melora Walters), a petulant ballet teacher, and Mary with Robert (Aidan Gillen), a slightly grandiose but affectionate writer.
At first blush, it's somewhat hard to wrap our minds around the grandiose nature of the place, chock full of diamonds, and the lore of what's passed through its doors.
It was this full plan that I had in my brain to make it a whole movement, which was maybe a little grandiose for the time, but we were 22!
The Boneyard  figures, mostly white, show in grandiose visual detail the ways in which a pervasive white visual aesthetic came to dominate default Western cultural perceptions of beauty and power.
It doesn't try to reinvent the wheel with a new form factor or grandiose thoughts on how many devices you should be able to plug into your laptop at once.
Cramer described Facebook's call as "gem after gem of greatness" in its demonstrations of successful ad campaigns, empirical evidence of Facebook use and grandiose but realistic plans for virtual reality.
It's got an unexpected Primordial vibe, too, in terms of the grandiose, soaring melodies and often heartfelt, sometimes histrionic vocals rising up from amidst the album's more out-there moments.
His grandmother was born in an area which eventually became Pakistan, shawnwasim wrote on Reddit, adding that some Christian families did celebrate the holiday, but not in a grandiose way.
But narcissists are typically seen as good providers, because they're into grandiose gestures, are very charming, and might have a great job or a lot of money, Dr. Durvasula says.
The grandiose opera hall visuals are paralleled with dimly lit graffiti ridden alleys and neon drowned clubs, manifesting the two sides of Italy as he voyages through its gloomy underbelly.
Thus, hand-wringing that Trump's move took the wind out of the sails of his son-in-law's grandiose plans to engineer Palestinian-Israeli peace is somewhat beside the point.
Even the nuclear industry's grandiose and preposterously expensive proposal to build two new nuclear reactors a month, from now to 85033, would be far too little and far too late.
Instead, he enchanted his audience by suggesting a grandiose disinformation campaign by the entire US media to deprive his people of the truth of the ultimate success of his movement.
The band has never been an outright political entity, but Halford has certainly never been shy about his opinions, often couching societal commentary within his grandiose, big-idea lyrical schemes.
As we marched through one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the US, on our way to Walton family estate, we could see through the grandiose gates to copper-domed homes.
If you're unfamiliar with Guadagnino's style, it's filled with long, lingering shots of nature, close-ups of food, silences (and lots of them), sumptuous sceneries, grandiose architecture, and breathtaking styling.
Big Boss: Kärgeräs is still the same nation I invented back then and who were doomed by their own fault by the Grandiose Magus Equirhodont and his monster named Dygon.
It was highly dramatic, too, with its famous drumroll opening turned into a mini-cadenza by the timpanist Dan Bauch, and the horns announcing the finale with a grandiose flourish.
My trip came before the release of the Mueller report, and Russians alternately laughed or dismissed as hysterical what they saw as the Western press's assertions of Putin's grandiose manipulations.
Baseball is strange like that—there's something decadent and involuted about its chosen style of self-regard, a sort of doomy grandiosity that is more legitimately grandiose than legitimately doomy.
The writer-director S. Craig Zahler has embellished "Dragged Across Concrete" — a neo-exploitation potboiler about brutal men on both sides of the law — in both modest and grandiose ways.
Here, the sort of corporate ownership, grandiose architecture and Hermès-wearing executives you might find in the Médoc — home to many of the most famous Bordeaux estates — is practically nonexistent.
" After Todd pushed back that Plouffe isn't a psychologist and that such claims frustrate voters, Plouffe elaborated, "The grandiose notion of self-worth, pathological lying, lack of empathy and remorse.
The musical based on the grandiose Meat Loaf album shines a light on its songwriter, Jim Steinman, and the many twists and turns it took to get both projects made.
Trump is as grandiose as Obama in his self-conception but less ambitious in his execution, and so has replaced Obama's addiction to speeches with his own addiction to Twitter.
More gasping could be heard at "The Illusionists," altogether a bigger, blingier and kitschier enterprise, but still a less grandiose occasion than the first two seasons of this ensemble evening.
The company came out of stealth with a $330 million funding round and grandiose plans for a new brand of handset, led by none other than Android head, Andy Rubin.
But through denial and more projection and maybe a rally or numerous likes on his Twitter feed, he will be back to his old grandiose self in a few days.
The gimmicks were the furrowed brow and the underbite and the decrees of stewardship, the grandiose dressing up of a prolonged exit as a final inspection of the sport's soundness.
Trump unveiled her somewhat grandiose official plan, a three-pillar initiative aimed at issues facing children: well-being, social media and opioid abuse, after 16 months of serving as first lady.
Lauded unicorn start-up Magic Leap has scrapped many of its grandiose projects in favor of a device designed like a pair of glasses, technology website The Information reported this week.
The current account deficit is widening, and although the economy posted a robust 7 percent growth last year, analysts say it is fueled in part by unsustainable construction of grandiose projects.
This exomoon is about 1.5 percent the mass of its host planet, which, interestingly, is the same mass-ratio between the Earth and Moon, but on a far less grandiose scale.
His latest grandiose photo op appears to be a reflection of his own vanity, obsession with crowd sizes, craving for the spotlight, penchant for military hardware and his flirtations with authoritarianism.
"WE ARE proud of our Muslim community in Michigan," says Rick Snyder, the state's Republican governor, sitting in his office in the grandiose Cadillac Place, the former headquarters of General Motors.
From their grandiose harbour-front HQs, shipping and insurance firms once linked the empire to the world; generations of literary exiles and nomads have flowed in, and made Trieste their own.
When the founders of Tesla Motors set out to prove that electric cars could improve upon gas-powered vehicles, one of the earliest roadblocks they encountered was something much less grandiose.
The studio, approximately 300 square feet, had slanted floors and a weirdly-positioned shower, but it also had great light and grandiose archways separating the bedroom area from the living space.
Luckily for Alunah, their guitarist Sophie Day is also possessed of an amazingly rich voice, one that's almost supernaturally suited to the sustained notes and grandiose, folklore-inflected tales she spins.
It's testament to their trigger-happy thrash 'n' slashing, but even when the tempo loosens on "Satan Is Real," intensity prevails as Italian symphonic death metallers Fleshgod Apocalypse provide grandiose orchestration.
Mayors represent more than 36,000 towns but are often accused by the central government of being responsible for out-of-control spending on grandiose local infrastructure projects and providing cushy jobs.
Lavie said that cyber defenders need simpler ways of securing networks, rather than an endless series of new technology options or grandiose paradigm shifts in thinking in order to outwit attackers.
That left him unable to bring a plan to China for some of his more grandiose visions, like action on climate, as congressional Democrats already had too much on their plate.
"Crown Vic" sidesteps any genuine ethical consideration of his choices, deploying a melodramatic twist and some grandiose speechifying that seems to respond defensively — and simplistically — to current debates about police brutality.
The web might seem like a fairly tame environment for such an adventurous temperament, but it is also the repository of — or at least the inspiration for — mind-blowingly grandiose ideas.
It could also be the motto of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, the creator of grandiose spectacles of sublimity and kitsch, whose works fed his deeply idiosyncratic spiritual practice and vice versa.
The result is a dizzying disco-opera—a grandiose album, but one which, unlike its predecessor, seeks drama in the beating of a heart rather than the fall of a civilization.
The cartoon Disney cast of princesses revamps their closets for those with a budget to shop straight from the runway, and the desire to thrill like a grandiose Met Ball arrival.
Within the strict textual limits of the game Bernard comes off as little more than an unmotivated evil, making grandiose speeches about the meaninglessness of existence and transcending the human form.
China's "One Belt, One Road" initiative, a grandiose trillion-dollar trade and investment strategy to reconnect Eurasia and position China at the center of the global economy, is also facing resistance.
The investigation has shown the general to be a grandiose and ambitious novice to intelligence who sought to impress the crown prince with unauthorized schemes for black operations, the person said.
While the hotel is only going to become more grandiose, in the meantime, rooms are still comfortable, well-appointed, and priced far less than they usually are, offering a great deal.
Besides, while Campolo believes that life can be meaningful with or without a god, his work these days is less about grandiose metaphysical claims than about simple acts of hand-holding.
But the insight is right on: A grandiose sense of victimhood, inflamed by epic fantasies and impervious to rational disproof, is one of the best tools there is for victimizing others.
But at the time he deserted, the 23-year-old from Hailey, Idaho, had not yet been diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder, which includes grandiose thinking and suspicions of others' motives.
It's grandiose, heartbreaking, darkly beautiful, and perfect for Olsen's voice—which reminds you that no matter how you dress up an Angel Olsen track, the focus will always be on her.
A study of class, family and politics, Cuarón's excoriating look at his own upbringing and the nation that catalysed it manages to be both understated and grandiose; naturalistic and finely orchestrated.
The grandiose moniker is a reference to a phrase popularized by former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, who famously described the Gulf War as "the mother of all battles" in January 1991.
This flippant attitude toward regulatory bodies tasked with overseeing the safety of drugs and drug testing, and the willingness to expose volunteers to untested remedies, is dangerous thinking masked as merely grandiose.
At the end of the day, it is nation states that will stand up to terrorism and tyranny, and not the grandiose dreamers sitting in the European Commission or the European Parliament.
"It's a national embarrassment that we are building a grandiose, inscrutable and ugly memorial that virtually no one likes," Justin Shubow, president of the National Civic Art Society, said in an email.
In the current political environment, Trump wants his grandiose signature withdrawing from the dead-as-a-doornail TPP to distract people from extinction-level, imminent threats facing working Americans from this Administration.
" The grandiose display of showmanship didn't sit well with McCann, who told The Huffington Post on Monday that he, too, hopes the two get to rumble and that "I've started training already.
Putin, on a visit to the bridge's construction site last month, spoke in grandiose terms of the many failed attempts to erect such a bridge over the Kerch Strait in the past.
History and symbols will also feature on the trip, as they did with Trump and Putin, whom Macron received in grandiose settings such as the Champs-Elysees and the Palace of Versailles.
Durvasula points out that the Ireland research was conducted on college students and people ages 18 to 32 recruited from Facebook, groups which have typically scored higher on measures of "grandiose" narcissism.
Mr Fillon hit the most discordant note of all when he sought to mimic the grandiose oratory of Charles de Gaulle, whose photo he kept on his bedroom wall as a child.
She misreads the reasons for the president's success, suggesting that he had won on grandiose promises to mend Turkey's view of its past, rather than on prosaic promises of stability and growth.
Users can shrink themselves for a more realistic walkthrough of the city, or grow taller than a skyscraper if they just want to feel grandiose and tower over the imaginary, cowering citizens.
In a conventional rock context, the distorted, unaccompanied, rapid-fire rumblings that begin the song would sound grandiose, and in fact they still do as Moctar coaxes out a harrowing, terrible beauty.
Her former job, the book's grandiose title and the decision to model it on one of the bibles of journalism - David Halberstam's "The Powers that Be" - make her a big moving target.
While state spectacles have often ended with grandiose displays of modern military might, the wedding in Monaco likely marks one of the few times the firepower was provided exclusively by foreign powers.
Here, Selim's sister and the Mouth of Satan herself, Farida Lemouchi, and her grandiose, imposing voice are swapped out for a much more feral, unhinged approach befitting Urfaust's own commitment to chaos.
To potentially thwart an irreversible collapse of the West Antarctic ice sheets, environmental physicists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research released research on July 17 suggesting a grandiose geoengineering project.
Grand Prix juxtaposes glory with despair and further explores his fascination with megalomania from his last EP, Semper Primus / Tandem Mortem,​​ resulting in a music video that's equal parts grandiose and groovy.
In four decades under the elder Bongo, little was built in Gabon bar a lot of grandiose offices and an extraordinarily expensive railway, running from Libreville to the Bongos' hometown of Franceville.
Mr Sarkozy's head-spinning mercurial style, and his tendency to prefer grandiose gestures over policy follow-through, have lost him support among centrists, who see Mr Juppé as a less divisive figure.
Although the President made many grandiose campaign promises about helping Americans who need treatment and care for their health issue, every action taken by his Cabinet has been harsh, regressive, and harmful.
Vance charged him anyway, apparently following the Bialystock script by making a splashy premiere and satisfying voters who want to see this one individual prosecuted in the most selective and grandiose way.
Guns N' Roses prefaced its grandiose hit ballad "November Rain" with the instrumental second half of "Layla" by Derek and the Dominos, the obvious model for the former song's guitar-hero finale.
Dai Viet rulers then embarked on a grandiose imperial expansion; indeed, one of the signal achievements of Mr Goscha's work is the attention he pays to pre-European South-East Asian imperialism.
Another standout is "Roseland Baby," where Adamn manages to turn simple lines like "all these bitches keep on stalking me" into grandiose balladry in between verses that bounce forward with clubby enthusiasm.
"It's a bit of an open question as to whether Russia will sign up for something as grandiose as a multi-decade cartel," said McNally, president of the Rapidan Energy Group consultancy.
The Spanish quintet hail from Granada, a medieval city nestled at the foot of the soaring Sierra Nevadas, and they incorporate shades of that grandiose atmosphere into their avant-garde doom opuses.
Jeffrey Sachs: What I mean by American exceptionalism is the belief that America is on top; it's been called the indispensable country, the city on the hill, and many other grandiose ideas.
Arcade Fire's career arc resembles U2's exactly: insufferably earnest arena-rock band starts out sincere, anthemic, grandiose before tiring of their own reputation and deciding to embrace electronics, irony, and such.
You tend to talk at length without specificity and use grandiose language, which can sometimes result in putting your foot in your mouth, but hey—every conversation with you is an adventure!
But that has been a theme of his grandiose visions -- President Trump seems to see himself as invested with the powers of a king, constrained only by the generosity of his will.
Franz Kline's "Corinthian II" (1961) features grandiose black brushstrokes on white background, with obvious visual affinity to Morita Shirū's graphic lacquered folding screen "Dragon Knows Dragon (Ryu wa ryū o shiru)" (1964).
But while its competitors were giving grandiose speeches and supplicating at the White House, the company's content-moderation choices stood out as an example of a social network with a moral compass.
With grandiose TV installations and enough smart home gadgets to fill the Palace of Versailles, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may not seem like a haven for fitness-related tech.
The party of the sitting president often loses seats in the first midterm election, and many Democrats expect a backlash to Mr. Trump if he is unable to fulfill his grandiose promises.
The impoverished yet spirited young aesthetes of Puccini's "La Bohème," that is, in Franco Zeffirelli's grandiose production, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Monday and runs through much of the season.
Cohen was prone to making grandiose statements in — and about — his art, and his death was a pop gesture so brimming with cosmic coincidence that it could only be compared with David Bowie's.
What is evident is that governments are generally too slow in responding to the dynamics of a shifting market, and spend too much time on grandiose pieces of big picture legislation and policies.
Sometimes the goals are too grandiose, sometimes the datasets are too large, and sometimes the valuable insights are buried beneath a mound of numbers or other data that just really isn't that useful.
A little over a month has passed since West hosted that grandiose listening party for The Life Of Pablo, which he beamed out from Madison Square Garden and into cinemas across the world.
And with its glittery pomp and grandiose circumstance, the halftime show screams Gaga, who's managed to hold her own against a legend like Elton John while being just the right amount of weird.
Friedman asserts that your plan will have huge beneficial impacts on growth rates, income and employment that exceed even the most grandiose predictions by Republicans about the impact of their tax cut proposals.
Nate Berkus and husband Jeremiah Brent initially deemed the 9,000-square-foot Spanish Colonial they now call home way too grandiose, but not if they have a couple more kid in their future.
Its CEO, coke-snorting, sarong-wearing, grandiose bro Steve Lift (played with visible glee by Armie Hammer) has built his empire on forced labor — and he wants Cassius to help him sell that.
Casamonica's grandiose departure in 2015 bore witness to the enduring influence of a monumental, three-part cinematic enterprise and the book from which it sprang, published 50 years ago on March 10th 1969.
The solemn, grandiose atmosphere is severely disrupted by Luthor, portrayed by Eisenberg as a privileged tech guru who makes the actor's take on Mark Zuckerberg look like the epitome of style and manners.
The two men are actually a lot alike: They both have grandiose views of themselves, play to the base instincts of voters, and obsess about reporters — and regularly feed them on the sly.
"There's a rather large, grandiose sex montage in the movie, but it's not as titillating as it is just funny and horrifying at times," he shared in an interview with Australian site TheFIX.
"I didn't start out on a crusade to be a voice for gender equality in the workplace; I didn't have grandiose plans to organize powerful people and roar about equal pay," she wrote.
Hitler paid no attention to Braunau, preferring instead to amass thousands of works of art and make grandiose plans for a vast museum in his honor in the northern Austrian city of Linz.
The humor in "The Boat Rocker" largely stems from Feng's gleeful mocking of the grandiose claims of Yan and various party hacks, not least through his quoting of purple passages from the manuscript.
"Despite being a fan of the wilderness and going "somewhere quiet to recharge," she loves India, which she calls "sensationally charming and grandiose and then other times kind of backbreaking and eye-watering.
We have worked together several times for his personal projects, all of which have involved artistic nudes in unique indoor locations, such as a grandiose mansion, an abandoned bunker, and a historical house.
But as often happens in Russia, grandiose hopes and plans have run far ahead of the reality on the ground, where bureaucrats, appalling weather and immense distances conspire to smother the Kremlin's ambitions.
With grandiose personalities from its female contingent looming across the border, and setting precedent for pop music in the West, it's easy for our pop stars, specifically women, to feel short by comparison.
One of the highlights of Cercas's portrait of his impostor quarry is a tour de force imposture of his own, in which he captures Marco's grandiose comic rhetoric — an imposture of an impostor.
Cash-strapped and in need of friends, Pakistan welcomed the crown prince with open arms and in grandiose fashion, including sending fighter jets to guide his incoming plane once it entered Pakistani airspace.
China has listened to three generations of bluster from the rulers of North Korea, including the current leader, Kim Jong-un, so grandiose and alarmist language is nothing new to them, she said.
The work in the Biennial that you are most apt to remember, "The Meat Grinder's Iron Clothes" (2017), by the Los Angeles artist Samara Golden, marries technique and storytelling on a grandiose scale.
Verdi, writing in his best operatic style but without benefit of stage trappings, conjures a terrifying sonic image of the Day of Judgment in this grandiose setting of the Mass for the dead.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump wasn't able to cut a deal for a grandiose Veterans Day military parade, but this year, he says he aims to start a new 4th of July tradition.
Reaching the scale required to back up that grandiose claim would require a lot more work than went into developing the sound in the first place — so will proving out any early results.
First, Stephen's drive is reinforced or curated not by his coaches but by himself, and second, the novel doesn't present his grandiose ambitions and unrepentant will as heroic or necessary or even good.
You don't owe anyone an explanation, so don't feel like you need to make some grandiose statement about your departure on social media, or update all your family, friends and colleagues right away.
The show's point of view, however, unfolds pretty squarely from the perspective of Cunanan, a compulsive liar and hustler whose grandiose vision of himself and pangs of economic anxiety triggered his tragic behavior.
Wow. There's a real pleasure to hearing Wayne do the Rick Ross thing to perfection and rap these grandiose Mafioso bars about gangster shit for just a second over this lush, luxurious beat.
"It would be great if this world takeover and grandiose expansion paralleled other great television ventures," said Brian Gewirtz, a former lead writer for Raw who worked at WWE from 213 to 2015.
You write in the book that Trump does exhibit some of the criteria of narcissistic personality disorder, like his grandiose delusions, but that he doesn't have it because these traits don't cause him distress.
The moment they mesh best on a standalone track is when Wayne is in charge, on the "Lollipop" remix, and Kanye is freed of the burden of trying to make some grandiose artistic statement.
The title of the book eventually changed, and the book was written and rewritten over the course of a year in order to fulfill my admittedly grandiose pitch, but the audience stayed the same.
"We wanted to create space for [Villanelle] that was both real, but also a fantastic space, a grandiose apartment, but without being showy," production designer Kristian Milstead told Apartment Therapy back in April 2018.
LONDON (Reuters) - With a wordy speech invoking a 17th-century precedent, and a cold stare aimed at stunned ministers, the grandiose Speaker of Britain's parliament cast Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy into chaos.
It boasts grandiose architecture (including an enormous Chinese-built parliament) and some of the best-dressed people in the world (known as sapeurs, or members of the Society for the Advancement of Elegant People).
This week, he visited sites around Zhangjiakou that will host outdoor events when China hosts the 2022 Winter Olympics, stressing money must be spent properly and no "grandiose" projects be allowed for the Games.
The planned communities of the world's Disneys and Fords are largely out of vogue now, but for tech giants, the white whale is always skywards, in the form of a grandiose universal internet initiative.
"Exalted," wholly, is an anomalous entity able to embody both the darkness and the light, nobly reminiscent of the impressions forged by Page's 12-string fretwork and Branca's grandiose guitar symphonies: empyrean, staggering, unfathomable.
"Since I was a little girl, I've been obsessed with grandiose acts and performers who make the seemingly impossible possible," Banks, who continues to serve as executive producer on ANTM, said in a statement.
Hispano-Suiza's J12, which it built from 1931 to 1938, carried a 9.4-liter V12 engine that generated 220 horsepower, the kind of ooh-la-la you need to move a car this grandiose.
React World was a victim of its own hyperbole It all started with a grandiose video announcement, now retracted, wherein Fine Bros promised to "change the world" and shake up the entire media industry.
Be smart: Bannon's power grabs, back-biting, and grandiose America First fantasizing have left him, along with Trump, similarly isolated on a similar island — though much more content and authentically pleased with his lot.
When Joseph Stalin usurped power in the Soviet Union, he placed great importance on the role of architecture, embarking on grandiose projects to erect what were at the time the highest buildings in Europe.
The Shah's Islamist and leftist critics have always portrayed him as a corrupt and grandiose tyrant who brutalized his nation at the behest of the CIA, which helped restore him to power in 1953.
When people are overconfident, unaware of their limitations, and when they display grandiose and megalomaniac aspirations, they often come across as competitive, tough and leader-like, even in the absence of actual leadership talents.
And sometimes grandiose ideas can do good even without achieving their ultimate goals: the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Nobel peace prize have improved the world even if they haven't abolished war.
These pieces' connection to their ancestors — Debussy's own set of études, their movement perpetual, whether fast or slow; the grandiose drama of Liszt; the complex rhythmic games of Conlon Nancarrow — are ever more obvious.
For the more playful and not-so-rich, there's always Concours de' Lemons, "celebrating the awful, mundane and truly awful," a tongue-in-cheek knock off of the grandiose display of wealth across town.
Upon initial entry, visitors can marvel at the location's grandiose two stories, filled floor to ceiling with over 1,000 traditional Chinese stamps—hand-engraved to tell the history of Starbucks and coffee, of course.
Businesses that create a puffed-up company ethos but skimp on their most basic responsibility of paying their workforce well will end up with unhappy employees no matter how grandiose their company mission statement.
It also sought to revive nostalgia for Francisco Franco, Spain's dictator of 1939-75 and brutal victor of its civil war, whose remains Mr Sánchez exhumed last month from his grandiose monument outside Madrid.
" When challenged, Plouffe acknowledged he had no degree in psychology but rattled off what he said were the New York businessman's symptoms: "grandiose notion of self-worth; pathological lying; lack of empathy and remorse.
"I fully expect the president to resort to the same populist message he used in his campaign and inauguration full of grandiose promises ... to gloss over the reality of his administration," he told reporters.
In fact, the strange thing about Hitler is not that he imagined himself as the leading figure in a historic drama — many people have such grandiose fantasies — but that life ended up vindicating him.
"She Wants It" is a coming-of-age and coming out story that is gently comedic, like most of Mx. Soloway's oeuvre, and interwoven, as its grandiose subtitle suggests, with some gender studies pontificating.
This is really to say we need a different, non-grandiose view of the world and to say we need to understand how great the gains to cooperation are and how vital they are.
" Dr. Berger sums up our grandiose thinking: "What's happened is there's now a zeitgeist and the zeitgeist says that you should spend a fortune and have that gorgeous cake, and have those gorgeous flowers.
The plot takes a back seat to the grandiose beauty Mr. Argento brings to the enterprise; every ray of light and throb of the soundtrack (the famous score is by Goblin) seems defiantly unnatural.
He dispensed with some of the more grandiose language that has occasionally flavored Democratic speeches against Mr. Trump and tried to link together the testimony and documents into a narrative for senators to follow.
May, Mr. Johnson's overblown oratory cheered his supporters, including his grandiose promises to usher in a "new golden age," and to make the country the "greatest and most prosperous economy in Europe" by 2050.
In a grandiose test, the Soviets dropped this 59,525 pound, blimp-shaped behemoth in October 1961, which released some 50 megatons of energy (that's the energy produced by exploding 50 million tons of dynamite).
For example, many of golf's most distinguished courses are understated and highlight natural elements of topography, but the Trump golf properties often showcase grandiose artificial features like waterfalls, soaring fountains and sculpted rock formations.
And though I'm sure you meant well, Marc, you were just grandiose enough to take the bait, as if Superman could add a superpower: able to crack addictions with a single first-class stamp.
Not all families use the room for such reasons, and it frequently becomes an "overflow" room for staff members during dinners and events held in the more grandiose State Dining Room across the hall.
Opener "Do You Feel It" slowly evolves into a grandiose freakouts with galloping drums, searing lead guitars before abruptly fading out while "High" maintains its fire-breathing intensity with overpowering bass and chugging riffs.
In the third edition of this series, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, you won't only see Tina Turner in her most grandiose role, but also what we assume is the primordial mother of all Thunderdomes.
While we first noticed the pink parachute gown that the Met Gala co-chair arrived in (not to mention the male entourage with umbrellas), it's her grandiose eyelashes that we couldn't take our eyes off.
Thus, only ABC News has maintained a major presence in the Lincoln Square buildings, which have off-limits, landscaped terraces and grandiose offices reserved for West Coast-based Disney executives who occasionally visit New York.
" A small video displayed within a cramped box showed a suited man in a goofy mask pontificating, making grandiose statements like "So we can both, bit by bit, go hand in hand, developing my prosperity.
An in-house curator chose artworks, including Sol LeWitt prints in the restaurant and an eight-foot-tall marble bust by the Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa that sits on the lobby's grandiose white-granite staircase.
But the economic tailwinds that made such grandiose plans possible have abated, so Turkey is now facing an economic reckoning which could threaten the canal's completion and is starting to threaten other emerging markets, too.
Also expect to hear a lot of the same grandiose predictions about AI that we heard onstage at Facebook's F8 developer conference last week, when executives also described AI as the future of Facebook's business.
It was a gamble to announce his arrival in England in such a grandiose fashion and, had results not gone his way in the early days, it could have left him in a difficult situation.
The company didn't have a lot to say about the closed launch, aside from reiterating some of its grandiose plans for making Bixby, "an integral part of our connected ecosystem," according to the company's CTO.
It was renamed the 'Copa de Su Excelencia El Generalísimo' (or 'His Excellency, The Supreme General's Cup'), a fitting tribute to a fascist dictator with a grandiose outlook and a profound insensitivity to the absurd.
The initial release of the app came earlier this summer with a grandiose celebration from New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo, who proclaimed the death of the ticket line at train stations all over New York.
Wolfe, who died Monday at age 88, was known as a dandified doyen of the New Journalism, a reporter who embedded with hippies and race car drivers and astronauts, and later as a grandiose novelist.
The combination of West's new album, The Life of Pablo, as the soundtrack and Madison Square Garden as the grandiose venue made for an event larger than any fashion show you've likely ever been to.
In the midst of a deeply divisive presidential campaign, more than 1,000 psychiatrists declared the Republican candidate unfit for the office, citing severe personality defects, including paranoia, a grandiose manner and a Godlike self-image.
That word, however facetiously it was deployed—because to consider the beer leagues a career, even in jest, was grandiose—had a finality that got marbled up with whatever depression the concussions had brought on.
He's a complex person with serious character flaws: One of Trump's more genuine traits is his grandiose desire to take care of anyone and everyone due in part to his strong desire to be liked.
Still, even I put up a sizable wall between the real intimacies of our relationship and my public persona (it feels grandiose to claim I have one, but in the online age, we all do).
The other misconception reflected down there are the oversized buildings that tower over those streets—heavy, grandiose showpieces built by companies that could never imagine a future in which giant buildings like these went unfilled.
"We had eight frustrating years where we'd ask detailed policy questions, and what we'd get back in response was bluster and grandiose claims," said Joanne McCartney, a Labour Assembly member who is now deputy mayor.
It is all too easy, in this age of image saturation, to fall victim to a creeping ambivalence about the grandiose — those mountains and waterfalls that are supposed to excite our sense of the sublime.
The end result is undoubtedly mystical, grandiose, and elaborate—but is also endearingly earnest, and that's a big part of why they've enjoyed such sustained success and loyalty from their fans for so many decades.
"My father had grandiose plans for me; he wanted me to be Benito Juarez," Toledo told Reuters, adding that he transferred to an arts school when a relative noticed him drawing while doing his homework.
The city has remained in the hands of his party ever since, and he transformed it with extensive infrastructure projects and grandiose signature constructions, including a vast hilltop mosque, high-rise towers and expanding suburbs.
The students' impassioned idealism, hunger strikes, rebukes of officials and grandiose gestures like building a "Goddess of Democracy" on the square drew an outpouring of public sympathy and left leaders divided on how to respond.
Head to the main cathedral here, for which Rubens painted his grandiose "Descent From the Cross," and look at the eight figures bringing down Christ's body in a torrent of sweeping fabrics and slashing light.
However spooked the markets were, they had been equally wary of the coalition and its grandiose spending plans, and given the mutual hostility of the coalition partners, their government might not have survived for long.
One is American Christian and the other orthodox Russian, but both have grandiose, sweeping theories of world history, both believe we're in an apocalyptic clash of civilizations, both seamlessly combine economic, moral and political analysis.
The Nets' brain trust would be on its way toward building a foundation that would lift the team out of the predicament it inherited from previous leadership, which forfeited valuable draft picks in grandiose trades.
Because of Khashoggi's murder, MBS's grandiose "Davos in the Desert" conference in Saudi Arabia a week ago was a damp squib, with many leading businessmen and all Western media organizations pulling out of the event.
Its early stirrings are apparent in his letter to Pound: the sentences racing to match in number and variety the collections they describe, the grandiose gestures of self-deprecation, the hyperbolized confession of trifling sins.
Ford might have avoided such tragedies, and the ruinous management of the plantation, if he had sought counsel from specialists in caring for rubber trees or scholars of the Amazon's capacity to thwart grandiose ventures.
China did have its knuckles rapped by a U.N. court over its grandiose claims in the South China Sea, but this has done nothing to slow its inexorable building and military expansion in the region.
Mr. Jammeh, who has long been criticized for human rights abuses and grandiose claims like being able to cure AIDS with little more than prayer and a banana, has insisted on a do-over election.
Anyone familiar with the way comic books work knows that it's pretty much a rule that, when someone makes a grandiose speech like that, they will be the person who trades their life for others.
Donald J. Trump's plan for a grandiose, 14.5-million-square-foot city-within-a-city on the West Side would have included office buildings, 7,600 apartments, a huge shopping mall and the world's tallest building.
In 2009, when Rio beat out Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo to secure the Olympics, Brazil was on a roll, and China, another resurgent, fast-developing power, had just staged a grandiose Summer Games in Beijing.
The ambitions of Mr. de Blasio's progressive government, once richly grandiose in his promises to unite a city starkly divided along economic lines, have become grounded — both by the stark realities of governance, and politics.
In today's economy, Benioff's marketing wizardry is in avoiding a focus on specific products like CRM that most people don't understand, and instead he touts the grandiose vision of a digital transformation that Salesforce is powering.
His speech was surreal—proud dad talk about his rifle stuff boys; a bit about how he's going to "grab, grab, grab" and "be greedy" for America; the usual wall talk, but somehow even more grandiose.
Not surprisingly, the way that he is handling the post-report period, with grandiose claims of presidential authority and aggressive postures toward the legislative branches, are confirming the worst impressions to come out of Mueller's investigation.
Without drawing grandiose conclusions, this is the sort of action we might see in stocks that have already priced in tough fundamental challenges and can rally on any evidence that consumer-spending is not falling apart.
A soaring, grandiose thesis statement for Grande's entire career, "God Is a Woman" encapsulates how and why Grande is the biggest pop star in the world right now — and it deserved far more than perfunctory acknowledgment.
Though Devlin hasn't worked with Frank Ocean, the two share the same reverence for being meticulous; for placing importance on minutiae as much as the grandiose, understanding how the two come together to form a whole.
DUH has called the agreement "a grandiose failure", and said it would reduce nitrogen oxide missions by only 2 to 3 percent overall, since it affected less than 20 percent of Germany's 15 million diesel cars.
The former chief strategist to the President has always enjoyed a grand view of himself and, especially after helping guide Trump to victory last year, grandiose ideas about his ability to reshape the American political landscape.
He wants to close it and move on, keeping it as a robbery, and mansplains this to her in grandiose fashion with some analogy about being in war because that's the summation of his life experience.
" Sia Kate Isobelle Furler doesn't really see herself as any of those grandiose synonyms, all of which basically equate to "unknowable by the general public in the intimate way we want to think we know celebrities.
Using the language of explorers, and playing up the future of civilization that hangs in the balance, Musk used grandiose terms to convince viewers around the world that we must leave Earth and realize our destiny.
Nor is E2I a roving strike force, as its grandiose name suggests, but a framework for Europe's ambitious armed forces (its members account for four-fifths of EU military spending) to act together in future crises.
Real improvements to America's infrastructure can be made but the federal government must pull its weight, and Congress must not blindly trust Trump's claims of a grandiose infrastructure plan as anything but a snake-oil fallacy.
His plan for a grandiose military parade and the tough talk about fire and fury doesn't instill patriotism, it demonstrates the lack of confidence he and the American people have in democracy as a foreign policy.
This self-negating deluxe museum-as-archive acted as a new form of art (what we now call book art) by forgoing the scale and presence endemic to the grandiose museum context and its autocratic clout.
Washington, contemporary jazz's reigning mainstream sensation, is touring in support of "Heaven and Earth," his magisterial follow-up to "The Epic," the equally grandiose 2015 album that turned this Los Angeles tenor saxophonist into a star.
" Trade is only part of the overall security and geopolitical picture, he said, noting that Mr. Xi may be pushing too hard, too fast and that "this grandiose vision and ruthless actions are a bit premature.
Intoxicating voters with the seductive passion of vengeance, and grandiose fantasies of power and domination, Mr. Modi has deftly escaped public scrutiny of his record of raw wisdom — one that would have ruined any other politician.
He persuaded Jones to come out of retirement to compete in it—an instant lure to fans and players alike—but at first Jones wouldn't agree to calling it the Masters, finding the word too grandiose.
Even if the scope of work is not as grandiose as Trump originally envisioned, it would benefit a range of businesses, from steel maker Nucor and concrete firm US Concrete to construction machinery companies such as Caterpillar.
Actions speak louder than grand proclamations It might seem like a great idea to write a love letter or profess your love for your friend in a grandiose way, but Patrick says it's not the best idea.
"We found that parental income is significantly related to adult levels of narcissism, a trait characterized by grandiose self-views, impulsive tendencies and low empathy," said the study, written by Sean R. Martin, Stephane Cote and Col.
Zenon is an overly optimistic response to the launching of the International Space Station in 1998, and his work on Smart House is an equally dramatic response to grandiose claims being made by Microsoft at the time.
Not some coherent ideology that puts the people's interests first, but a policy based on opportunism, on cultivating a grandiose sense of national identity and then presenting that identity as being threatened by domestic and foreign enemies.
One of the hallmarks of Afrofuturism is that it uses the grandiose spectacle of a deliberately othered state of blackness — often through metaphors of aliens, androids, and other nonhuman species — to call attention to its own difference.
In February he was feeling a bit more grandiose and told a group of Republican politicians that Senator Orrin Hatch told him he's "the greatest president in the history of our country," including George Washington and Lincoln.
While the project is, in part, an homage to the grandiose beauty of still lifes, Sarley is also exploring the darker powers of food, as she reckons with the after-effects of a teenage battle with anorexia.
It's hard not to feel that if Steadman was weirder, hermetic, less astonishingly prolific, and more pretentiously grandiose, he'd be recognized not just as a very good artist, but as one of the world's few very greats.
She has been making work forever, and while I've never cared for much of it, I get why it's popular: it looks a lot like the grandiose Abstract Expressionist work we've seen a million times in museums.
Emily's goth bravado and her grandiose declarations that she's a genius are made poignant by their historical context: we know that she's right, and also that she'll end up staying at home her whole life, largely unpublished.
Cusk made her début in 1993, at the age of twenty-six, with "Saving Agnes," a down-from-Oxford bildungsroman about a grandiose, tormented girl finding her way in London, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award.
" Facebook's original self-description, "an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges," had evolved into a grandiose mission statement: "Facebook gives people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.
He also joins Wayne on Jay Z and Rick Ross's "FuckwithmeyouknowIgotit," and the two of them combine to far more grandiose and sinister action movie-quality ends than two of the greatest mafioso portraitists of all time.
While enthusiastic and confident expressions of grandiose, and sometimes overtly partisan, goals are not strange for primary campaigns, once the primary is over, such declamations are usually tempered by the very different nature of the general election.
It just may not sit so well when the president you serve is trying to put forth a "man of and for the little people" image, despite Trump's own wealth and tendency to favor the overtly grandiose.
And indeed, if you go down the list of diagnosing criteria for narcissistic personality disorder — which include things like "has a grandiose sense of self-importance" and "requires excessive admiration" — it does sound a lot like Trump.
When Barry's latest hit brings him to Los Angeles, he accidentally stumbles into an acting class (taught by a perfectly grandiose Henry Winkler) that pushes him to do something he hasn't in a long time: be human.
Denise Scott Brown's photographs of Las Vegas during its early, explosive years of growth were meant to aid rethinking about architecture: how grandiose signage and bright neon lights eclipsed design, particularly in the age of the automobile.
North Korea has a more grandiose outlook: It wants the US to stop threatening to destroy it, end its nuclear protection of South Korea and Japan, and likely remove the 28,500 US troops from the Korean Peninsula.
She was so committed to surrendering to his "idea of himself" that the one time she said something off-script, asking a truly anodyne question during one of his grandiose disquisitions, she felt a spasm of anxiety.
And four months before Kid A came out, Sunny Day Real Estate reached for the stars with their grandiose 2000 swansong The Rising Tide, which owed as much to Genesis as it did to Rites of Spring.
At Fondazione Prada, more than 60 works from 1959 to 2015 by Jannis Kounellis are presented in Ca' Corner della Regina, the grandiose 18th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal, in another, very different full-scale retrospective.
Indeed, in the United States it's actually common for ideologically rigorous candidates — including mostly conservative Republicans but also Bernie Sanders — to speak in terms of grandiose and likely unachievable visions rather than in wonkish, nitty-gritty details.

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