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In the brilliantly illuminated nave, the faithful are exalted by one of the most grandiose series of frescoes in Christendom and, sadly, some of the most damaged in the earthquake.
Facing the river along Zhongshan Road are some grandiose old buildings, a bit the worse for wear.
There is the case of Victor Hugo, a poet of long ago--born in France in 1802, died in 1885--who in recent years has somehow risen ghostily from his grandiose patriot's tomb in the Pantheon to become, in our late 20 th century, the poet of the hour, so far as music goes.
At the risk of sounding grandiose, I hereby declare myself to be involved in a bitter feud with no less a personage than Stephen Jay Gould.
The hillside complex roofed with blue tiles, completed in 1929, could scarcely be more grandiose.