What is "grandiosely"

Usage examples of "grandiosely".

He had systematically terrorized her with rough trade and dried up the rest of her business, forcing her to drain away what little assets were left after buying passage from Terra, and grandiosely sworn, "So long as I'm alive, that broad will never turn another trick on Zarathustra.

He had been stuck out here for a year now, heading some grandiosely named European directive, as cut off from the mainstream of policing as his location suggested.

Tomorrow, everyone will listen, even if hardly anyone will actually understand, while Rappaccini informs us, in the most grandiosely bizarre way he can contrive, that our culture too has reached its terminus, and that it is on the brink of being interred forever, mourned for a while, and then forgotten.

Hunt turned back, folded his arms grandiosely, and gazed down at the priests with what he hoped was a look of lordly contempt.

Not all attended—cooks must prepare breakfasts and the lowest of the low lay fires and clean stoves—but from Wyme's mansion each Sunday Benjamyn and Chryselle led a shivering procession through the ice-rimed streets to the wooden building grandiosely described as a cathedral.

No luck there— only the gray disk of the shaded evening star, the signet of people who had taken on a task that recontextualized humanity as a kind of god bacteria, chewing away at worlds, dying to prepare the ground for later life—dwarfed most grandiosely in the cosmic scheme of things, in an almost Calvinistic masochist-heroism—a parodic travesty of the Mars project—and yet just as magnificent.

No luck there only the gray disk of the shaded evening star, the signet of people who had taken on a task that recontextualized humanity as a kind of god bacteria, chewing away at worlds, dying to prepare the ground for later life-dwarfed most grandiosely in the cosmic scheme of things, in an almost Calvinistic masochist-heroism-a parodic travesty of the Mars project-and yet just as magnificent.

No luck there—only the gray disk of the shaded evening star, the signet of people who had taken on a task that recontextualized humanity as a kind of god bacteria, chewing away at worlds, dying to prepare the ground for later life—dwarfed most grandiosely in the cosmic scheme of things, in an almost Calvinistic masochist-heroism—a parodic travesty of the Mars project—and yet just as magnificent.