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Example sentences for "grand style"

  • The quack bristled up in grand style at what he termed my ungentlemanly behavior, and threatened if I touched him to bring me before the “Tribunal.

  • After bombarding the forts in grand style for a couple of hours, troops were landed and the garrison surrendered.

  • The picquets on our right, composed of the Second Division, fought with desperation, hurling the Muscovites over the rocks in grand style.

  • Whenever they think they are insulted or imposed upon, they resent it in grand style, no matter the odds against them.

  • The first anniversary of the Alma was kept in camp in grand style, as far as our means would allow, and wine was sent to all the wounded Alma men then in hospital.

  • He painted both there and in Perugia, and if not in a grand style of fresco, still with a felicity of design, with much spirit in his attitudes, and with a vigorous pencil.

  • The school of Cortona exhibited a grand style in fresco; the other school was restricted to oils.

  • The impartial consider him an eminent artist, but his productions vary, being occasionally in a grand style, and at other times not passing the bounds of mediocrity.

  • His forte lay in pen drawing, and in chiaroscuro; as may be seen from his Prophets, in a grand style, transferred from the Duomo to the apostolic palace.

  • The very existence of the "grand style" is a protest against any false views of "progress" and "evolution.

  • And what are the elements, the qualities, that go to make up this "grand style"?

  • I do not suppose I shall be accused of perverting my devotion to the "grand style" into an academic "narrow way," through which I would force every writer I approach.

  • Here was indeed rank defiance of those rules of "the beautiful" in art which had been formulated by the School of David, and which even in a scene of bloodshed and horror expected heroic poses and the theatrical grouping of the "grand style.

  • Le Brun became the art despot of his country, the foundation of the Academy, and subsequently of the French School at Rome, led to the formulating of definite canons of formal beauty and of the "grand style.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    endless life; find herself; finite things; general action; grand army; grand ball; grand banquet; grand committee; grand council; grand juries; grand marshal; grand nombre; grand procession; grand seigneur; grand thing; grande armee; grande dame; grandfather said; grandmother says; higher form; honorable friend; onion juice; oppose the; prairie chicken; still remained; tall tree