grandeurs

Yet to this same Hendrik Andersen, James offers over and over withering criticisms of his gigantic sculptures and goes so far as to accuse him, in his artistic enterprise, of la folie des grandeurs , or megalomania.

The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012

I think Mr Robinson rather underestimates the incapacity of this Cabinet, and their potential for conjuring future folie des grandeurs.

Archive 2007-05-01 Stephen Tall 2007

I enjoin her above all to make them good Christians and honest individuals; to make them view the grandeurs of this world if they are condemned to experience them as very dangerous and transient goods, and turn their attention towards the one solid and enduring glory, eternity.

Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009

I think Mr Robinson rather underestimates the incapacity of this Cabinet, and their potential for conjuring future folie des grandeurs.

Lucky, lucky Gordon? Stephen Tall 2007

It has mingled, though with regret, the secular grandeurs of the monarchy with the new grandeurs of the nation.

Les Miserables 2008

When, in his capacity as enemy to the new dynasty, Raoul was introduced in the salon of Madame de Montcornet, his apparent grandeurs were flourishing.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

Such a catastrophe casts the lurid gleams of its charcoal over the whole of life, showing reefs, pools, depths, where the eye has hitherto seen only summits and grandeurs.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

Nevertheless, I am still troubled, perhaps less by the actions of these young "grunts", (said with affection) and disturbed by lack of participation in civics and helping these kidspeer back through the 'looking glass', especially by their parents, to see the stark truth and beyond the hype of artificial grandeurs of war and blind nationalism.

America at War: Killing Cabbies in Iraq 2007

Raoul Nathan is a fair type of the Parisian literary youth of the day, with its false grandeurs and its real misery.

A Daughter of Eve 2007

No one knows better how to play off sentiments, glory in false grandeurs, deck himself with moral beauty, do honor to his nature in language, and pose like Alceste while behaving like Philinte.

A Daughter of Eve 2007