grandiloquent

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

With grandiloquent gesture he raised another of the tindery fragments and ignited it from the first.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930|Various
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
I saw the chance for fun and for putting on their own grandiloquent style.
Strange True Stories of Louisiana|George Washington Cable
"Enough to blow you all to pieces before an hour," was the grandiloquent reply.
Historical Tales, Vol. 2 (of 15)|Charles Morris
They say that he lacked inspiration, and was vulgar, bombastic, and grandiloquent.
Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4|Charles Dudley Warner

British Dictionary definitions for grandiloquent

grandiloquent

/ (ɡrænˈdɪləkwənt) /

adjective

inflated, pompous, or bombastic in style or expression

Derived Forms

grandiloquence, noungrandiloquently, adverb

Word Origin for grandiloquent

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

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