In this work he traveled all over the state, making appeals to the people and securing their aid in this grand undertaking.

And upgrade only when you have time to understand the changes involved, which means before starting a grand undertaking, not once it is under way.

Cooking and eating it is a grand undertaking.

The more he talks about his grand undertaking, the more animated he gets.

He tellingly identifies Europe as "a postheroic culture": grand undertakings are not for so tired and prosperous a place.

His grandest undertaking was a pantheon of caricatures of the 1,000 most illustrious figures of his day, which he never completed.

Other times, he uses his voice to spoof a grand undertaking.

The grand undertaking had foundered.

After months of hard work, the practical running of these grand undertakings had finally passed out of his hands, freeing him to concentrate on basic questions once more.

His is a grand, heroic undertaking.