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With expectations so grandiosely modest, how can one but succeed?

The city in its heyday, with every structure grandiosely perfect, might not have been half so stirring.

"Man," he said grandiosely, "has the capacity to bring the entire universe within the purview of his mind."

Some enthusiasts even speak, a little grandiosely, of a "post-textual literacy."

The principals can be seen eyeing the camera warily at first and sometimes speaking grandiosely for its benefit.

"Just another of my many accomplishments," Giordino replied grandiosely.

He ran on past the ferry terminal and stopped by the low wall surrounding the isolated little green which, rather grandiosely, proclaimed itself a park.

Asser speaks grandiosely of Alfred's relations with foreign powers, but little definite information is available.

It was a queenly indulgence on Victoria's part to express her grief so grandiosely.

Her wardrobe improved, although not grandiosely so.

Brandon finally insults Fitch, who then grandiosely challenges him to a duel.

He rather grandiosely concludes that his case "is not out of line with daily relations between Germans and Americans.

Some chefs have rather grandiosely begun calling it New World Cuisine.

Blisters were surely burgeoning grandiosely on his trodding feet.

"Here I am," I announce grandiosely, spreading out my arms.

Another of the great dragons, a Green known grandiosely as Beryllinthranox was also not able to sleep through the storm.

He thus grandiosely misconstrues voter anger over tough times as a mandate for his eccentric brand of conservatism.

This year marks the end of what was grandiosely christened the Decade of the Brain.

"Kingdom of Shadows" is not a grandiosely plotted book, but it's one with a remarkable range of scenery.

Silk stepped forward and bowed grandiosely.

He thought of the spiteful, irrespon- sible, grandiosely dreaming creature who had been his mother.

Hunt turned back, folded his arms grandiosely, and gazed down at the priests with what he hoped was a look of lordly contempt.

But in a suburb, shortly after 9 P.M., two young men encountered on a grandiosely wide street told how some people had found livelier entertainment.

Almost literally thunderstruck, he watches her through torrential rain that is filmed so slowly and grandiosely it looks like snow.

Ms. Waldman grandiosely declaimed about censorship and masculine oppression.