Example sentences for: grandly

How can you use “grandly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In Gates' essay, those who would favor a stand of principle over the ties of blut and boden (or even business)--whistle-blowers, antiwar dissenters, anyone who says "I often place my duty to society above my duty to my company"--are characterized as "William Godwin types all, letting their own dear mothers burn to a crisp with nary a second thought while they grandly escort some silk-bedizened cleric to safety."

  • "Never has the poetry of the first machine age been so grandly and proudly exalted," comments the art historian John Golding in the exhibition catalog.

  • Critics ignore the absurd premise--a cop (John Travolta) and a villain (Nicolas Cage) each undergoing plastic surgery to look like the other one--and take unabashed delight in the movie's "grandly operatic pulp" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Reviews credit Woo with giving violence "balletic grace" (Todd McCarthy, Variety ) as well as "moral gravity" (Richard Corliss, Time ). Cage and Travolta are deemed "two of the most daring, physically intuitive, soulful performers on screen" (Ansen).

  • It seems to us that when proponents grandly describe EBM as a paradigm shift, they not only make a philosophical mistake, but they inadvertently have an unfortunate effect on the debate about the first order questions, for talk of paradigm shifts unduly polarizes the debate about the value of EBM.

  • The magazine also introduces a redesigned front section, which grandly aims to chronicle "The Way We Live Now."


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