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Grandiosity

noun
1.
High-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation.  Synonyms: grandiloquence, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric.  "An excessive ornateness of language"






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"Grandiosity" Quotes from Famous Books



... perhaps more appreciation than invention, his imagination has something very personal in the zealous enthusiasm with which he exercised it, though I think it must be admitted that his reflections of Tiepolo, Titian, Tintoretto and his attenuated expansions of Michael Angelo's condensed grandiosity, recall the eclecticism of the Carracci far more than that of Raphael. But his manner is the modern manner, and it is altogether more effective, more "fetching," to use a modern term, than anything ...
— French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture • W. C. Brownell



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