Definition of “grandeur”

A townsman might shiver deep into his raincoat, but Arnold saw only grandeur and the power of the air and the earth.

But she met my father and he took her to Tregarland's, to grandeur such as she had never known before.

For some reason Martin Luther King Day has also lost its grandeur here in Toronto.

He is the man who pushed further out the definition of folie de grandeur than it has ever hitherto.

It is along its coastline, however, that Dubai has given a free rein to its ambitions for grandeur.

There is no sense of location or hierarchy or grandeur (or its flipside, terror).

This absence of colour gave the mansion itself an austere, somewhat utilitarian aspect for all its grandeur.

With its stone facade and the generous use of Indian motifs and styles, Rashtrapati Bhavan combines both grandeur and syncretism.

Yet it possessed grandeur ; he was unprepared for its impact.