grandiloquent

In 2014, this might sound grandiloquent and overstated, but in 1994 there were few openly gay men on TV, and few people with AIDS.
Pedro Zamora, a Hero in the Real World|Tim Teeman|June 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yet a moment like this seems so overblown, so grandiloquent, and so self-consciously heroic that it simply stuns me.
The Hinge of War: Michael Gorra on the Civil War’s Turning Point|Michael Gorra|May 13, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And then there was the grandiloquent Republican leader Everett Dirksen.
This Isn’t Obama’s Malaise, It’s GOP Intransigence|Robert Shrum|May 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A celebrity whose egocentric and grandiloquent pronouncements reveal a potentially dangerous person in serious need of help?
Charlie Sheen: Stop Putting Him on TV!|Jace Lacob|March 1, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Note as well their wily use of the word "stuff"—a bit of vernacular so the message doesn't get too grandiloquent.
De Beers: Diamonds Are a Recession's Best Friend|Adam Hanft|December 6, 2008|DAILY BEAST
I was unanimously recalled, and—to be grandiloquent—received with applause that made the welkin ring.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
Just off the main square we secured quarters in a typical French inn of the second class, a small place with a grandiloquent name.
The Glory of The Coming|Irvin S. Cobb
This relative of his, with his plausible and grandiloquent schemes, stood revealed a bankrupt swindler of the worst type.
The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley|Bertram Mitford
If called on to prove his power, this grandiloquent Satan would turn out, I fear, to be a sorry thaumaturgist.
Mysterious Psychic Forces|Camille Flammarion
Friedrich has still his hopes of Bavaria, so grandiloquent are the French in regard to it; who but would hope?
History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XV. (of XXI.)|Thomas Carlyle

British Dictionary definitions for grandiloquent

grandiloquent

/ (ɡrænˈdɪləkwənt) /

adjective

inflated, pompous, or bombastic in style or expression

Derived forms of grandiloquent

grandiloquence, noungrandiloquently, adverb

Word Origin for grandiloquent

C16: from Latin grandiloquus, from grandis great + loquī to speak

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