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• s  lofty in style
• s  puffed up with vanity
  a grandiloquent and boastful manner

• The principal's speech was so grandiloquent and pompous that it left the students seething.
• Even now, after his victory in Iowa and surge in New Hampshire, the Senator manages to entangle himself regularly in grandiloquent and impenetrable rhetoric.
• It came after years of grandiloquent sloganeering: "the war on terror," "the axis of evil," wanton talk of crusades and evildoers and an ill-conceived war with Iraq.

• magniloquent
• tall
• overblown
• pompous
• pontifical
• portentous

News & Articles

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• Charles Krauthammer: Obama's global-warming folly
  The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a “29-year-old hacker” revealed his nation’s spy secrets to the world. How does President Obama respond? With a grandiloquent speech on climate change.
  July 7, 2013 - The Bay Bulletin
• Krauthammer: Obama's global-warming folly
  The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a "29-year-old hacker" revealed his nation's spy secrets to the world. How does President Obama respond? With a grandiloquent speech on climate change.
  July 6, 2013 - Savannah Morning News
• Obama's global-warming folly - KRAUTHAMMER
  WASHINGTON -- The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a "29-year-old hacker" revealed his nation's spy secrets to the world. How does President Obama respond? With a grandiloquent speech on climate change.
  July 5, 2013 - The Oakland Press

Quotes

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• Sergey Lavrov in CNN International
  This may sound grandiloquent but for me this is like placing a flag on the moon, this is really a massive scientific achievement,Sergei Balyasnikov, spokesman for Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Institute, told Reuters.
• Vincent Canby in International Herald Tribune
  Writing in The New York Times nearly 30 years later, when the film was rereleased for a brief run, Vincent Canby called it "a gaudy, grandiloquent Hollywood classic" and suggested there was more than a touch of "the rugged American...
• Michelle Bachelet in Wall Street Journal
  Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said that the Peruvian government's accusations that a Peruvian military officer spied for Chile were "offensive and grandiloquent."