Still, even some competitors acknowledge that so far E*Trade has been able to deliver on most of its grandiose promises.

Comparing these grandiose promises to his failed record, it's enough to make anyone want to, well, sigh.

"Ovitz made grandiose promises to Tannenbaum, all of which have proven to be false," the suit said.

He offered voters no bribes or grandiose promises.

Such grandiose promises do not thrill everyone.

He never said anything about a dream and job and while he did make the grandiose promise to ".

When the President got down to proposing a budget plan that would whack $500 billion off the deficit, his grandiose promise quickly shriveled.

Nothing has come of the grandiose promise of "a fair balance across the political spectrum" .

After all, his grandiose promises to rid the world of evildoers have all come to naught.

In May 2001, with many wondering what happened to the grandiose promise, a preliminary version of the regulations surfaced.