Meaning of overgrand | Babel Free

Definitions

Excessively grand.

Examples

“It is a grand work⟳, overgrand for the state of the people, for the minimum section of the canal in the first 75 miles has a 90-feet bottom breadth, and the great desideratum in the Ceded Districts is irrigation.”

“Miss⟳ Marigold, however, was no longer young, while Tibbie had been young as a first summer bird. Miss⟳ Marigold was to wear⟳ the uninteresting garments which so many brides wore now, but Tibbie herself had been dressed in white. Not satin, of course, or a wreath, or the overgrand ornament of a veil — both Tibbie and her mother were too sensible for that. But nobody who had seen Tibbie that day, whether in London or Timbuctoo, would have⟳ been stupid enough to take⟳ her for anything but a bride.”

“At the head of each chapter are one or two quotations from Byron, Keats and Shelley — from no one else: and Woodhouse and I think⟳ his lordship does not look⟳ overgrand in such company. Woodhouse also thinks that these quotations in so popular a book will be of great service to the fame of Keats...”

“The house is to be built low, so that one need⟳ not climb⟳ stairs all day, wood rather than stone to be used in construction, since the house need⟳ not last⟳ forever, and special attention to be paid to the orientation — that is, openness to the sun on all sides. Emerson’s practical sense⟳ of building appears in his criticism of flats he visited in Philadelphia and New York, where light⟳ entered only from front or rear, leaving the inner chambers dark. He takes note⟳ also of the sacrifice of convenience in some houses to a piazza, or an overgrand staircase; even of such mundane matters as ill-built chimneys and leaking cellars.”

“He was an artist, a good one; and though the galleries may neglect⟳ him and the historians of art pass⟳ him with a polite or a condescending paragraph, and though his mountains may be a little overgrand, his canyons overawesome, his skies unnecessarily dramatic, his art is recognizably of this earth and this West.”

“His guest was also happy to get⟳ for the first time a fairly accurate picture of the island economy in, to use⟳ an overgrand phrase, the “private sector.””

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