They say it proves that I'm aloof and grandiose.

And I said, Okay. Grandiose sense of self worth.

And now a grandiose stunt for the esteemed Prague audience.

And at the risk of sounding grandiose, it is the world's loss.

Speaks to items one and two on the checklist glibness, superficial charm and grandiose sense of self worth.

Am I going to use a two page spread like a comic book for more grandiose effect, I guess?

Unlike many Internet medical companies which go in for grandiose projects, iBaby focuses on the Internet obstetrics vertical field and be professional on pregnant mothers and doctors.

And since I'm realistic, rather than grandiose, I don't claim that the ability to control the function of the nervous system will at once unravel all its mysteries.

Like many French leaders, de Gaulle was deeply suspicious of the Anglo Saxons. France, in his grandiose view, was the natural guardian of European values, which, according to him, were coextensive with French values.

None is grandiose, but together they might help substantially. Some of these ideas found their way into the American Jobs Act, which might have had some real impact had Congress passed it in 2011.

Moreover, many of the World Bank president s most important decisions involve economics in an essential way. Wrong economic decisions, such as in the 1970 s, when Robert McNamara pushed grandiose, but environmentally devastating, infrastructure projects, have haunted the Bank for decades.

We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to build nations. When we cannot be sure how to improve the world, prudence becomes an important virtue, and grandiose visions can pose grave dangers.

Some countries have primary fiscal surpluses for the first time, and most emerging markets have brought down inflation through tight monetary policy. With corporations cautious about investing and governments prudent about expenditure especially given the grandiose investments of the past exports have led growth.

Qaddafi frequently farmed out power to municipalities and citizens in an attempt to bypass the civil servants who consistently thwarted his grandiose plans. And almost two decades of international sanctions prevented a generation of Libyans from gaining the necessary technical skills by studying at Western universities.

NEW YORK Vidkun Quisling, Norway s wartime fascist leader whose name has become synonymous with collaboration with evil, lived with his wife in a rather grandiose villa outside of Oslo. That villa is now the Norwegian Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities, a fine transformation of a tainted place.

Multilateral development institutions have probably had their most consistent success when they serve as knowledge banks, helping to share experience, best practices, and technical knowledge across regions. By contrast, their greatest failures have come from funding grandiose projects that benefit the current elite, but do not properly balance environmental, social, and development priorities.

Sometimes leaders need to stretch the boundaries of realism to inspire their followers and call forth extra effort, as Winston Churchill did in Great Britain in 1940. But, without a degree of prudence based upon comprehension of the context, visions turn from grand to grandiose and undercut the values that they seek to promote.

In regional terms, Obama s restoration of relations with Cuba merits a place in the history books alongside Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger s opening to China. As grandiose as that claim may seem, the fact is that crossing the straits to Cuba signals a new, more open, and far more productive approach to relations with all of Latin America.

How can one celebrate the end of a war at a time when the descendants of those who fought it (undoubtedly driven by the hope that future generations would live in peace) are killing one another in a brutal little war in eastern Ukraine? What is the point of grandiose fireworks displays amid the firing of real howitzers and rockets?

Clearly, many Turkish citizens, especially in the big cities, are sick of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s increasingly authoritarian style, his steely grip on the press, his taste for grandiose new mosques, the restrictions on alcohol, the arrests of political dissidents, and now the violent response to the demonstrations. People fear that sharia law will replace secular legislation, and that Islamism will spoil the fruits of Kemal Atatürk s drive to modernize post Ottoman Turkey.