It seemed a rather grandiose claim.

His grandiose claims for the vegetable appear in an afterword.

In any case, the level of analysis hardly warrants his grandiose claims.

All the grandiose claims, all the hand-wringing disappointment miss the essence of it.

He'd have made grandiose claims about inventing the triangle.

There are still many obstacles in the way of such grandiose dreams.

He seemed to be no more than a small-town accountant with big ideas, an exile from his tragic homeland and full of grandiose dreams of revolution.

Entrepreneurs are often so dazzled by imaginings of their own brilliance that they forget to look at history and reality becomes distorted by grandiose dreams.

He reigned long enough to allow the grandiose plan for his pyramid to be realized in his lifetime.

Opposition has been sturdy with locals complaining the grandiose plans were a 'gross intrusion' into an historic park.

Where engineers probe ideas, quangos too often prefer grandiose plans that cannot be easily tested, let alone falsified.

Renationalising the railways wasted billions, grandiose plans for 'integrated transport' are now a sick joke, not to mention his costly blueprint for regional government.

On the other hand, he was hyperactive and prone to grandiose plans.

The initial building work was conceived as the first phase of a large and grandiose scheme for a new ideal city.

Grandiose schemes should be dropped in favour of using existing facilities, upgraded where necessary within a stringent budget.

Keep hopes and dreams attainable, as grandiose schemes could dent your confidence if they don't pan out.

But disaster only inspires them to more grandiose schemes.

He should strike against the culture of devising grandiose schemes to attract public money, which has resulted in so much blight, division and misery.

The judge said he had 'a grandiose sense of self-importance'.

Do you have a grandiose sense of self-worth?

At work, narcissistic individuals have a grandiose sense of self-importance.

It destroys a narcissist's grandiose sense of self.

Individuals suffering from antisocial personality disorder tend to display a glibness and grandiose sense of self-worth.

That may seem like a grandiose statement to make about a band that, until recently, was mostly filed under 'guilty pleasures'.

Perhaps the key to their grandiose statements may lie with a comment their dad made recently.

He dressed up his failure to deliver the novel with his grandiose statements about reinventing the non-fiction form that also served to justify the lack of detail in the story.

Others have noted his fragile self-esteem, his belligerence, grandiose statements, his allegedly frequent falsehoods and history of cheating in business, and decisions that appear to hurt him politically.

Today, only a tiny part of his grandiose vision has come to fruition.

For all its grandiose vision, the film fails to connect on an intimate emotional level.

The somewhat grandiose vision was completed by two major new roads and ten residential neighbourhood units.