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Its not just the republicans against his grandoise ideas!
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It sounds like you're making some grandoise claim, but what action could possibly unconvince a Calvinist that everyone was not "totally depraved?"
The Epic of Gilgawest: A Myth of Biblioblog Origins James F. McGrath 2009
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At the far end of the scale are grandoise religious and philosophical abstractions, while at the other aretrivialmatters, debates that no sane person wouldtry to legalise.
A Matter of Faith « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2009
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At the far end of the scale are grandoise religious and philosophical abstractions, while at the other aretrivialmatters, debates that no sane person wouldtry to legalise.
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At the far end of the scale are grandoise religious and philosophical abstractions, while at the other aretrivialmatters, debates that no sane person wouldtry to legalise.
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This gives way to what clinicians call ‘narcissistic entitlement’ — grandoise illusions, inner emptiness.
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This gives way to what clinicians call ‘narcissistic entitlement’ — grandoise illusions, inner emptiness.
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Congress perpetually votes itself grandoise pay hikes, and then has the audacity to deny a poor struggling worker what amounts to pennies.
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This gives way to what clinicians call ‘narcissistic entitlement’ — grandoise illusions, inner emptiness.
2008 September 2008
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This gives way to what clinicians call ‘narcissistic entitlement’ — grandoise illusions, inner emptiness.
2008 September 2008
vanishedone commented on the word grandoise
A Galápagos giant tortoise, perhaps?
April 5, 2009
Telofy commented on the word grandoise
“Servants from the House Absolute, it seemed, had brought timbers and nails, tools and paint and cloth in quantities much greater than we could possibly make use of. Their generosity had waked the doctor’s bent toward the grandiose (which never slumbered deeply) and he alternated between assisting Baldanders and me with the heavier constructions and making frantic additions to the manuscript of his play.”
—Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
October 8, 2010