| This was a lovely glimpse of the Pacific Ocean, calm and sunny, with the bold precipitous cliffs of Maria Island rising grandly in the distance. |
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| He succeeded grandly, too, becoming an All-American center and a team captain. |
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| These grandly conceived spaces, together with the smaller ancillary rooms, constituted an extraordinary museum of classical art. |
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| His colours became more resonant, his drawing more grandly simplified, and his expression of the mysteries of life more profound. |
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| Someone recently and rather grandly told me that we'd saved singing in Scotland. |
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| Robert Graves, leonine, ascended grandly and delivered hilarious impromptu remarks before declaiming a poem. |
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| He lectured pairs of tourists, gestured and orated grandly, tried to recruit them to his cause, and promptly forgot that he ever saw them. |
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| The Brennans and their growing family lived rather grandly through the 1930s in the former private secretary's lodge in the Phoenix Park. |
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| He went inside, the boardroom doors flew open, and Tom presented me grandly to the room. |
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| Drivers who grandly sweep up to the entrance of the school find themselves being brusquely waved to the side of the road. |
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| Dumb, cloddish things are announced grandly, as though they were meaningful observations about the human condition. |
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| Overall these features create a sense of the indecorousness of worldly self-assertion, or perhaps, more grandly, of the potential blasphemy of human undertaking as a whole. |
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| It reminds one of those 'liqueur' chocolates, grandly labeled, leading one to expect delicious gastronomic sensations, but which actually yield a sickly sugary concoction. |
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| Southern borders in Italy were demarcated grandly with boundary markers. |
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| A grandly arched passageway leads to the high-ceilinged gallery. |
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| Galina Solovieva's costumes are gorgeously colour-toned and Semeon Pastukh's painted decors manage to look grandly substantial while being conveniently portable. |
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| In a veritably palace, grandly situated high above Davos and with an aspect far superior to the commonplace. |
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| We pass on to a free passage that modulates grandly, with an endless trill, to E-flat major. |
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| Alone on stage with his usual band, he gave a very warm and tasteful 'bal rock', which was grandly applauded by a public of loving fans. |
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| Thus, it is so much nonsense to now talk grandly about securing equality of treatment between territories. |
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| Pascal Schneider and Regis Marcon created for her an unforgettable culinary tour of France, starting grandly at Saint-Bonnet le Froid. |
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| There is a new development in this connection, and it is grandly presented. |
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| Mr President, again today many talk grandly about European values of democracy. |
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| One well-known restaurateur has announced grandly he will make a Tale of Genji meal, referring to a famous 1,000year-old classic novel. |
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| The town hall grandly overlooks the square, and the Arch of the Bull leads to the nearby covered market. |
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| He just smiled, grandly shrugged his shoulders and went back to living his life as anonymously as possible. |
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| Alas, that grandly named firm is at 270 Park Avenue, north of Grand Central Terminal and miles from the demonstration. |
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| She never behaved grandly, but there is an innate grandness about her. |
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| Verrerie La Méduse produces original objets d'art including glass figurines, sculptures, kiln-formed plates and artwork containing blown glass to grandly adorn your living room or office walls. |
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| Mr Miliband and his gurus talk grandly about a 20-year project to remake British capitalism. Until now Labour has mostly resisted demands for detailed policies and fiscal plans. |
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| Just as the Skibbereen Eagle grandly warned Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914 that it had its eye on him, so film reviewers feel moved to bellow their disapproval at the Academy. |
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| Dunham is not a physical comedian, an acrobat, or a grandly theatrical declaimer, but a writer, speaking her own lines in a way that's very close to her offscreen presence. |
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| In the early books, one was carried along by De Vries's unstoppable gags, his gift for spotting cant, fatuousness, and snobbery, and his grandly silly dialogue. |
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| Consistent with federal building during Scott's term as chief architect the design is of the Second Empire style although not as grandly elaborate as his other large public buildings. |
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| Under the Atabeg Turks, the cemetery was grandly renovated and expanded. |
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| We should be increasing the funding grandly for initiatives like the AHF to genuinely help people and not refer them to institutions with which they have a deep and understandable mistrust. |
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| At the summit, this ridge is joined by three others, crossing to form a plateau, trigpoint-pricked north and grandly cairned south. |
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| Yet Beshara Abboud, a tanned, stockily built man who exudes vitality, is content to see the end of the grandly named Beirut Olympic Club Gym. |
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