0 a style or manner of speaking that uses complicated language in order to attract admiration and attention, especially in order to make someone or something seem important:
Like Wordsworth, he veered between astonishing lyrical beauty and pompous grandiloquence.
She spoke simply and directly, for these were not people who would react favourably to grandiloquence.
He should be able to make speeches with his customary grandiloquence.
In any event he allowed himself in both poems a grandiloquence of expression barely under technical control.
He assumes a value of 3% in order to arrive at an estimate for the deep, hot biosphere that matches his grandiloquence.
Never mind clever-clever passion and grandiloquence.
He discovered that a poet could achieve a deeper poetic effect by not shouting or declaiming, or repeating himself, by avoiding bombast and grandiloquence.
Her big features matched its grandiloquence and spoke volumes from a distance.
