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You might have thought, given past experience, that D. C. insides would be on their guard against conservatives with grandiose plans.

He was a wiry, red-haired man with piercing blue eyes and a penchant for grandiose schemes.

"This sort of greenwashing grandstanding adds nothing and merely highlights their grandiose ambitions. "

Back in Portugal, I was hired by an engineering company for a grandiose project to remodel all our cement plants.

The rather grandiose title is somewhat embarrassing, but I think it turned out to be a very interesting book and I hope you try reading it.

A few months after seeing him in concert, Jobs came up with a grandiose plan.

But if did not get cogent and effective execution, cannot turn into idea actual word, again grandiose concept also is of no help.

For the next few minutes, the stage was a blur of activity which included dancing and acrobatics. It was an elaborate and grandiose opening.

Postures, head handle everything to do 100 points, even if it made further small, low, do not do too much, not grandiose.

Citi, one of the biggest banks in the world, has abruptly had to abandon its grandiose ambitions to be a global financial supermarket.

You may select your own subject - subject to my approval, but I would urge that you not take on anything too grandiose.

Your characterisation of Confucianism, with its simultaneous apocalyptic and grandiose predictions for China, is barely more than a cartoon.

Sometimes it may mean that yourecognize that something does not live up to the grandiose hype butstill has useful things to offer.

Dubai was the epitome of the cheap credit property boom, with developers using inexpensive loans to finance grandiose building projects.

Men are not merely annihilating themselves at a great rate these days, but they are telling one another enormous lies, grandiose fibs.

They often make grandiose claims, for instance to have disabled tens of tanks at a time.

Despite their grandiose names, even the nicest of these developments resembles a nondescript outer suburb of Houston or Las Vegas.

But fiscal austerity has threatened the ability of both to live up to those grandiose ambitions.

Beijing is crowded with skyscrapers and grandiose cultural monuments, built to show that China's capital wants to be a world-class city.

During later manic episodes, the content of the delusion became grandiose, bizarre, complex and out of reality.

Hubbard was certainly grandiose, but to label him merely a fraud is to ignore the complexity of his character.

Am I going to draw it on the computer ? Am I going to use a two- page spread like a comic book for more grandiose effect , I guess ?

Mr. He said China's environmental pledge, while perhaps less grandiose, is more real.

Gingrich is larger than life, captivating, a combination of the grandiose and the goofy-like a figure in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade.

If it sounded a little grandiose, my heart was in the right place.

As the manic episode progresses, concentration becomes difficult, thinking becomes more grandiose, and problems develop.

Is it too grandiose to say that the airplane sleeper is in touch with his humanity in a profound way?

But it is all a grandiose pageant.

The magnificent pagoda and grandiose jade light make us feel as if we are entering the fairyland.

This was welcome news to defence contractors worried that the grandiose project might fall victim to pressure for budget cuts.

If it takes bringing a laptop (or notepad) to a cafe to write your grandiose novel, then do that.

Such impressiveness usually takes the form of a truly grandiose realism.

It is tempting to discount such a grandiose claim as typical venture-capital puffery.

Over the decades, he has tried to remake the world in his own grandiose image.

These proposals have nothing to do with grandiose schemes for reinventing market capitalism.

"Western Ascendancy" : that was the grandiose title of the course I taught at Harvard this past term.

Glass decorative graphic design diversity, the larger richer personality, or exquisite flowers, or grandiose , or even mysterious flavor.

Psychiatrist Michael First also told jurors Moussaoui suffered from paranoid and grandiose delusions and disorganized thinking.

Facing such a grandiose structure, how to repair and protection is worth to delve into the problem.

All the same, a bargain this grandiose may be beyond the reach of even the most creative diplomacy.

Such inflation is a grandiose narcissistic defense against profound feelings of inferiority and powerlessness.

That naive eyes, curious; that sensitive ears, clean. footstep, merely come and remove, grandiose, go aboard, debarkation . . .

We dream of a grandiose tomorrow without processing or enjoying the moments of today .

Manic patients are frequently grandiose, obsessive, impulsive, irritable, belligerent, and frequently deny anything is wrong with them.

Highlights in the south are the grandiose Fish River Canyon and the Sossusvlei region of the Namib Desert.

But the government is still too fond of its grandiose projects and too slow to get unglamorous things right.

Today it is the wealthiest enclave in the country, with gaudy, grandiose mansions that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Rome was noteworthy for grandiose urban design, demonstrated through the forum, complete with basilica, temple, and other features.

China's dirty secret is the amounts borrowed by corporate entities created by local administrations as fronts for grandiose projects.

In space travel, as in politics, domestic policy should usually trump grandiose foreign adventures.

Organizers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics have unveiled the torch for the Beijing Olympic Games and grandiose plans for the Torch Relay.

We'd have done something a little more grandiose.

Even without the twin threats of climate change and a global economic recession, Dubai's grandiose plans might seem short-sighted to some.

and many of my closest friends have had grandiose dreams.

But now, after a steady influx of foreign-born players, the once grandiose "World Series" designation finally has gained some legitimacy.

For all the grandiose talk of curbing the excesses of laisser faire capitalism, the markets remain the masters.

His scenic poems were grandiose and impressive, giving a grandeur of the prosperous Tang Dynasty.

Such impressiveness usually takes the form of truly grandiose realism.

Also, unlike the grandiose commitments countries often make in other forums, these will be reasonably enforceable.

Step by step, the solid can be brought to fruition, the Great Leap Forward, grandiose style of eating that is suffered, not high winds.

They have a grandiose sense of self-importance and entitlement, crave admiration and attention.

He makes grandiose claims with a mixture of mirth and sincerity.

In fact, communist regimes of all stripes have long had a weakness for grandiose engineering projects.

The businessman is jubilantly happy , can't help being self engaging in business deals genius but grandiose.

The summit is replete withseminars, presentations, grandiose goals, lofty rhetoric, and clashes of interests.

In the past, the grandiose pharaohnic ventures had the goal to ensure eternity and permanent trace in the collective memory for the leaders.

For in the nineteenth century he developed a grandiose conception of stratification.

"Business Fixer" is too slangy and "Business Transformer" is too grandiose.

The big hall is more expensive transportation, design is also very atmospheric, particularly grandiose .

The trend in everyday conversation is to use grandiose words.

The more grandiose their mad ark visions got, the more interested in the whole idea they all became.

People experiencing hypomanic symptoms typically have a flood of ideas, and sometimes mildly grandiose thoughts and visions.

You admittedly described him as grandiose.

On the square, the commander reviewed the powerful and grandiose guard of honor.

The phrase gestures towards grandiose achievement that is out of reach for almost everybody.

His haughty, arrogant and grandiose worth of himself, is very embarrassing to deal with.

Today this approach goes by the slightly less grandiose name of climate engineering, and it is looking more practical.

She had some grandiose plan to start up her own company.

In reality, the audience for France's grandiose initiatives has been shrinking fast.

Ambiguous be that others believes you will be grandiose when being engaged in ground feeling you , .

Perhaps nowhere is collusion so pervasive as when aspects of the grandiose self are involved.

In the mid-1980s Francis had commissioned a grandiose headquarters near Paris that was modelled on the Palace of Versailles.

In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the grandiose onward march of minds.

In 2011 grandiose strategy will be out of fashion.

Other grandiose claims swirled.

14 of the party 5 in plenary meeting, 15 years for future national economy and society develop scale grandiose blue print.

It is also well-known for the grandiose martyr cemetery and solemn Taixu Palace which is the cradleland of Quanzhen Junta , Taoism of China.

who had used it as a ladder to higher social rank and more grandiose ambitions.

We've lost our idealism in the school of hard knocks. We've grown pragmatic, even jaded, about life. No grandiose plans for us!

Japan's aim is the colonization of China, a really grandiose plan.

However, these grandiose dreams soon gave way to more practical concerns.

Don't use a silly, grandiose user ID or screen name.

The result is that there are very few grandiose government-sponsored projects.

Truman didn't allow MacArthur time to stage a grandiose resignation.

I do not want to sound grandiose, but I sometimes feel I want to agree to make the questioner happy.

This research could open the door to more grandiose ways to trap the power created from evaporation.

He could sense that this man, sixty-plus years old, was given to grandiose tactics.

You said we have grandiose aims but puny abilities, And we won't know the reality is cruel. . .

Eg. We must do away with the grandiose style of work.

The castle covers an area of 26 acre, include an a palace, grandiose bethel and the site that a lot of people live and work.

BRIC equity issuance rose 97 per cent in 2007, to $256bn, according to Dealogic, and plans for 2008 seem even more grandiose.

Have you ever heard someone tell a story that got more and more grandiose every time they told it?

Some of the extra cash went on grandiose school buildings;

the world's earliest existing have definite time record of the diamond sutra printed: In the world the most grandiose

So, find me in these grandiose halls

a grandiose symphony that ran on for more than two hours