In our anxiety lest we err on the side of grandiloquence we may perhaps fall into the opposite error of tameness.
The source of all grandiloquence is the want of taking for a criterion the true qualities of the object described or the emotion expressed.
Here lies the distinction betweengrandiloquence and genuine fancy or bold imaginativeness.
In fact, our readers, we are sure, will find the grandiloquence of these two tragedy-writers so very good that a little will suffice them.
Resolve that you will like grandiloquence, requiring only that the grandiloquence be good, and on this condition we can promise that you will be pleased with Corneille and Racine.
Once in her childhood she had heard her father remark in a moment of especial grandiloquence that Darcys were entitled to the society of kings and queens; and Joan had never doubted the truth of the statement.
He spoke execrable French, but there was a grandiloquence about his vocabulary which set everyone laughing.
No one could assert that it was untrue, but he told it with a grandiloquence that carried no conviction.
It is extravagant grandiloquence confined to a newspaper about the size of a double letter sheet.
Newry has many comfortable and handsome public buildings; the streets have a business-like look, the shops and people are not too poor, and the southern grandiloquence is not shown here in the shape of fine words for small wares.
