Example sentences for: grandly

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

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • Although not the first grandly heroic piano concerto--Mozart's K. 503 arguably merits that description--the "Emperor " proclaimed its grandeur in an especially aggressive way, and in so doing, became the model for concertos of the Romantic era.

  • He was a man who liked to talk very grandly, often describing his political program as "renewing American civilization" and replacing what he referred to as "the bureaucratic welfare state" with a new kind of society.

  • 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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