grandiloquence

As usual, lacking grandiloquence, he was oblivious to the setting.

Her big features matched its grandiloquence and spoke volumes from a distance."

His verses undercut grandiloquence with the mundane and the conversational.

It is extravagant grandiloquence confined to a newspaper about the size of a double letter sheet.

With all their grandiloquence, Wagner's operas stand up to concert treatment better than works by many other composers.

And these versions reduced a kind of sacred grandiloquence to tight, graspable form.

When the discussion was over, Gingrich was grandiloquent on the subject of his own grandiloquence.

One doesn't wish to deny anyone his rightful share of grandiloquence, but there is a hazard here.

"It is true that we live in a center of grandiloquence, affectation and pretention."

The novel's lovely last sentence evokes "our human scale upon the land," and that touch of grandiloquence is well earned.

Ailing Nathan's shabby grandiloquence is charming at first because he's stretching his own capacities.

The band's official biography, keeping up their reputation for grandiloquence, also describes how they met in a Turkish bath.

This grandiloquence, moreover, doesn't lend itself to up-tempo material.

The most remarkable quality of "Passio" is its lack of grandiloquence.

An elfin grandiloquence pipes upon the precisely engineered canals.

Staniel was no warrior - a coward, in fact - but I had noticed his grandiloquence.

Davis's great intellectual breadth and agility shade here into sibylline grandiloquence.

"But your grandiloquence, and your conduct in swinging the beetle - how excessively odd!

Grandiloquence was battling denial, forgiveness was struggling against bitterness.

Mr. Spader is not the only speaker suffering from a surfeit of grandiloquence.

Give him grandiloquence, even.

When I asked if he knew of Vercingetorix, his grandiloquence knew no bounds.

Importance is achieved without grandiloquence.

He is said to have other novels in unfinished drafts, so perhaps he will revert to grandiloquence in those to come.

Grandiloquence is complex speech or writing judged to be pompous or bombastic diction.