Example sentences for: grandly

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

  • 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).

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

  • And yet, although Kincaid never says this so grandly, you get the sense that Drew's death somehow prompted her to look at life differently, from a less narrow point of view, perhaps, and that the discoveries this book relates might eventually spill over into her fiction.

  • The public policy literature is filled with confused causal modeling and the use of flimsy, though grandly named, variables such as "socioeconomic status" that don't mean what the authors think they do.

  • Then, on the plane, Warfield walked back to the press section and grandly served Seelye with a copy of a letter from Communications Director John Buckley to her boss, Times Washington Editor Andrew Rosenthal.


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