Dubai was the epitome of the cheap credit property boom, with developers using inexpensive loans to finance grandiose building projects.
Sometimes it may mean that yourecognize that something does not live up to the grandiose hype butstill has useful things to offer.
A military parade is held on the Champs Elysées, and fighter jets, blazing a trail of red, white and blue, screech low over Paris. This year will be particularly grandiose.
However, these grandiose dreams soon gave way to more practical concerns.
Having rushed with other European heads of government to the Middle East to douse the flames of Gaza, he returned home with a characteristically grandiose idea.
He wants everyone to agree with his grandiose vision of how things should be and makes sure of that by surrounding himself with yes-men and women and ruthlessly beating down dissenting views.
Hayashi apparently wasn't so concerned with such grandiose thinking when he pitched the idea in 2007.
Later the palace belonged to another family as the Medici made themselves grand Dukes of Tuscany and inhabited more grandiose Florentine buildings.
The group's mission is simple, if grandiose: to reforest the land with a variety of the most interesting tree species from around the world, and by extension, halt and reverse climate change.
He was a wiry, red-haired man with piercing blue eyes and a penchant for grandiose schemes.
In 2011 grandiose strategy will be out of fashion.
But it was later in his magical children's books that his brilliance was most apparent, probably because the "grandiose, mercurial, capricious" man remained childlike in so many ways.
Organizers of the2008 Beijing Olympics have unveiled the torch for the Beijing Olympic Games and grandiose plans for the Torch Relay.
Some of the extra cash went on grandiose school buildings; more went on raising teachers’ salaries and giving them all a half-day a week away from the classroom.
It isn't a grandiose slogan, it doesn't lie with the government. It belongs to every ordinary Chinese.
Indonesians have known about the empty stadiums and grandiose governors' mansions for a while.
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