grand-scale

[grand-skeyl]

adjective

1. of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc..

   grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.

Word History and Origins

Origin of grand-scale¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

The titters would feel dismissive, except that they also fit the tone’s grand-scale terror.

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Stone can play shrewd, silly, gorgeous, repellent, frail and frightening simultaneously, in a register at once intimate and grand-scale.

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It’s an ambitious, intelligent, grand-scale masterpiece, an immaculately crafted crowd-pleaser that never backs down from making its audience squirm.

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More than 23 years before “Squid Game: The Challenge” aired its finale, CBS introduced America to TV’s first grand-scale reality competition “social experiment” with “Survivor.”

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What is the identity of the Tanztheater Wuppertal without Pina Bausch, who transformed this regional German troupe into a world-famous ensemble associated with her grand-scale mix of absurdist humor, mordant darkness and visceral movement?

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