If the government had made less grandiloquent claims about the New Deal, it would have created less of a rod for its own back.

ECONOMIST: The New Deal

This is because those rarefied debates on the break-up of Britain are invariably conducted in the grandiloquent language of national destiny and constitutional architecture.

ECONOMIST: Scotland��s new politics

By the end of my visit I would have been happy to see photographs of kittens or even some grandiloquent paintings by Julian Schnabel, anything not so proud of being self-referential and small time.

WSJ: Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 | Snapshot of a Movement | By Richard B. Woodward

Minnelli deftly choreographs the taut histrionics of the colorful cast including Lauren Bacall, as a widowed art therapist, and Oscar Levant, as a grandiloquent wreck and his operatic CinemaScope images blend the mood management of fashion photography with the organized frenzy of Baroque frescoes.

NEWYORKER: The Cobweb