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Less a recondite modernist experiment than a grandly mysterious yet accessible achievement, the composition marked a profound shift in 20th-century classical music.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

And pretty quickly thereafter, some slamming winter rains did their own kind of christening and Prospect Bar got washed away, to be replaced almost at once by the even more grandly named Eldoradoville.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

Here, water transport assumes a form that is grandly ritualistic if decidedly prosaic.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024

Together, they could somewhat grandly be considered the armory of the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force.

From New York Times • May 4, 2024

“I’ll tend to this matter, Ladies,” Grandfather said grandly as he stood.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson