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    grandeur


    1. It is beautiful in its own way here, and there is more gentleness if not as much grandeur


    2. The world seems to grow ever smaller, with the grandeur of sheer distance made into a commonplace game of skipping by the advent of more efficient means of travel and the communications revolution that has blossomed in the bright sunshine of this digital spring


    3. This only fed my delusions of grandeur


    4. During the long sweep of days that passed during which the family had faded into its current state of dilapidated grandeur, the great city had, conversely, spread its teeming streets far and wide


    5. 'We will follow the sublime but wild and desolate grandeur of the dusty fields and high plateaux


    6. Ever since the tree had first raised its huge crown to the skies the rooks had made it their home, passing their history and their grandeur down through every generation until the present day, so that the bird city teemed with life and every resident rook knew that he or she was a true aristocrat


    7. its inhabitants’ only claim to grandeur was the dusty tether that


    8. family had faded into its current state of dilapidated grandeur, the


    9. The high price paid by the Romans, in the time of their greatest grandeur, for rare birds and fishes, may in this manner easily be accounted for


    10. Those laws and customs, so favourable to the yeomanry, have perhaps contributed more to the present grandeur of England, than all their boasted regulations of commerce taken together

    11. “Excuse me Zune, but it’s a hierarchy problem, don’t you see? There’s nothing wrong with classifying and grouping and organizing and all that, but the deal is, when we end up on top of the taxonomical pyramid, that tends to give us illusions of grandeur and superiority that are not at all justified when a global point of view is taken into consideration


    12. To dream that you are building a sand castle refers to your delusions of grandeur


    13. “You, O king – because you have grown great and become strong, and your grandeur has increased, reaching to the heavens, and your kingdom has expanded to the extremity of the earth – you yourself are the tree


    14. “The Earth surly has perfected the grandeur


    15. To be where it is and the classic grandeur of it in the middle of my loving mountains was and is a sense of pride


    16. In the height of their grandeur, it cost them two great wars, and three great battles, to subdue that little kingdom, of which the conquest would probably have been still more difficult, had it not been for the cowardice of its last king


    17. In the days of their grandeur, when no enemy appeared capable of opposing them, their heavy armour was laid aside as unnecessarily burdensome, their laborious exercises were neglected, as unnecessarily toilsome


    18. Their expense, too, their grandeur and magnificence, must be suited to what that commerce can afford to pay


    19. Of course, the delusions of grandeur were a necessary prerequisite for a religious cult leader, as were his followers delusions of their leader's greatness


    20. If the same freedom in consequence of the same uniformity, could be extended to Ireland and the plantations, both the grandeur of the state, and the prosperity of every part of the empire, would probably be still greater than at present

    21. He knows that the permanent grandeur of his family depends upon the prosperity of his people, and he will never knowingly ruin that prosperity for the sake of any momentary interest of his own


    22. It is otherwise with the farmers of his revenue, whose grandeur may frequently be the effect of the ruin, and not of the prosperity, of his people


    23. The republican form of government seems to be the principal support of the present grandeur of Holland


    24. She had been to a service here many years ago as a small child, fascinated by the grandeur of the church


    25. On the other hand, France has ambitions and designs of grandeur and power


    26. Hence His words, the Holy Mantra, which should be told aloud for all of Creation to bear witness to his grandeur and wisdom


    27. than it had ever been, with ten times the size and grandeur


    28. It is important to know that there will be many who come to know the true nature of these attacks, and the true grandeur of the stories and telling of cover stories by government, not just within the United States


    29. Mountain: Also see Tower, Skyscraper, Hill, Up and Elevator: Great power and strength; place of protection; grandeur and glory; wholeness and


    30. He suffers from delusions of grandeur

    31. This world was a place that had given George delusions of grandeur as a vampire and swiftly taken them all away, never letting him have anything close to real love


    32. As I went for his neck with my forearm, I noticed excitedly that my vampire speed, at least, had returned to its full grandeur


    33. I looked in wonder as I saw the werewolf stumble back slightly at the massive impact, mirroring Adrinius’ expression at the lack of grandeur that we expected from the battering of the beast


    34. And now I swear to you, to the wise and to the foolish; For you shall have manifold experiences on the Earth; For you men shall put on more adornments than a woman; And coloured garments more than a virgin in royalty and in grandeur and in power, and in silver and in gold and in purple, and in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water


    35. It didn’t suit mother at all, who had delusions of grandeur


    36. profound depression and delusions of grandeur


    37. And now I swear to you to the wise and to the foolish; For you shall have manifold experiences on the Earth; For you men shall put on more adornments than a woman; And coloured garments more than a virgin in royalty and in grandeur and in power and in silver and in gold and in purple and in splendour and in food they shall be poured out as water


    38. I finally understood the grandeur he was attempting to describe


    39. The sun finally sets and firework bursts of such extreme grandeur fill the skies that Tres can even see it far in the distance as he looks through the thick dome material


    40. Conducted by the grandeur of the eagles wings and all of nature gladly joins in and sings

    41. My life lacks the grandeur, the significance, the universal appeal of such stories


    42. yet millions of times more than the unspeakable grandeur that I have seen in


    43. They each confidently expected that Jesus would inaugurate his assumption of Messianic authority at the forthcoming wedding at Cana, and that he would do so with great power and sublime grandeur


    44. Thus build up for yourself and in yourself reserve galleries of beauty, goodness, and artistic grandeur


    45. Zaporavo made the mistake so many autocrats make; alone in somber grandeur on the poop, he underestimated the man below him


    46. "Volmana wishes to be reinstated in royal favor as he was under the old regime, so that he may lift his poverty-ridden estates to their former grandeur


    47. 9 Judas returned to his associates at the camp intoxicated with thoughts of grandeur and glory such as he had not had for many a day


    48. The God-knowing believer increasingly experiences the ecstasy and grandeur of spiritual socialization on a universe scale -- citizenship on high in association with the eternal realization of the divine destiny of perfection attainment


    49. The grandeur that was once a lavish and incredible spectacle of the mighty tsars, appealed to his inquisitive and imaginative mind


    50. The world is charged with the grandeur of God














































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    Synonyms for "grandeur"

    brilliance grandeur grandness magnificence splendor splendour magnanimousness nobility nobleness pomp resplendence richness

    "grandeur" definitions

    the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand


    the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct