He's sort of frozen in past grandeur.

But in each capital can be heard faint allusions to the other's difficulty in living up to past grandeur, let alone modern efficiency.

Its ghostlike rooms hint at the past grandeur of Russia, but modernizing the office will be difficult.

But here, too, there is discussion about how to restore a semblance of past grandeur.

Much of this reclamation embraces long-lost fragments of past grandeur.

Today the great, frowning pile loomed larger and more imposing than ever in the most resplendent days of its past grandeur.

In one corner of the living room, a collection of silver objects that belonged to Osman's family evokes past grandeur.

Until its recent restoration, it was a building much appreciated in theory, for its past grandeur, but rarely in practice.

Accentuating that sense of worn, past grandeur are blurry, tall windows in the background.

The stones had tumbled down, making a map of the original walls, and one remaining dilapidated tower gave the place a look of past grandeur.