grandiloquence

pompous style

TRANSLATION

die Prahlerei, prahlerisch, hochtrabend

STATISTICS

IN THE PRESS

"Andsnes’s Liszt playing is properly grand, but without the GRANDILOQUENCE which can dog performances of this composer. He is tuned to Liszt’s inner heartbeat too, as he shows in the chaste, watery light of the opening chords of 'The Convent in Nonnenwerth,' and the light-filled figuration of the 'Andante lagrimoso.'"

(Music review in The Times)

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grandiloquence

This noun means a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language.

From Latin grandiloquus : grandis, great + loqu, to speak    

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