Muvico theaters are huge and, melding the throwback idea of the glamorous movie palace to the contemporary fixation on theme parks, all designed according to grandiose themes; the 1950's, for example, or ancient Egypt.

On the basis of these excerpts, Ms. Bloom's accomplishment seems modest in relation to her grandiose theme.

So he was conversing on grandiose scarlet themes, and I was teasing him.

The paucity of their means enabled them to tackle grandiose themes that artists working in traditional materials could not touch.

While his television work centers on the delicacy of relationships, Mr. Zwick's film career has dealt with far more grandiose themes.

It is this tension between the grandiose themes of cosmology and its mundane workings that sits at the heart of Dennis Overbye's superb book.

Always an articulate and intelligent film-maker, for the first time Kubrick, despite the sense of wonder in the work, was accused of pretension, of allowing grandiose themes to manipulate the story.

An eminent international group, mostly physicists, has been meeting here in the second Niels Bohr Symposium on the grandiose theme of "Global Issues in an Open World: From Confrontation to Cooperation."

When the horrors of war appear to have become little more than a contrivance designed to advance a rather grandiose (and perhaps even somewhat juvenile) theme, I begin to wonder if Hollywood has anything worthwhile left to offer.

The Goliard Concerts opened a modest three-program season at Merkin Concert Hall on Sunday evening organized around a grandiose theme, "New Orbits."