In a sense, the entire novel is a piece of sublimated pornography, a phallic orgy from beginning to end, with the sexuality symbolized in terms of grandiose fetishistic military displays and orgiastic bouts of unreal violence.

Feric Jaggar comes to power in Heldon through little more than a grotesque series of increasingly grandiose phallic displays.

One of the grandiose surviving displays of Fascist planning is the Piazza Augusto Imperatore, whose centerpiece is the mausoleum of the Emperor Augustus, an area cleared and systematized 50 years ago.

The concept of grandiose municipal display can no longer be accepted; doubts have even been cast on the Balkerne Gate at Colchester, long regarded as 'the largest monument of its kind in Britain, unmatched in size and preservation.'

In Tyr, at any ceremonial procession, there would have been rose petals strewn in our path and horn fanfares as we passed - but this was Kardiastan, and the emphasis was on the solemnity of the occasion rather than any grandiose display or pointless ritual.

When Emperor Shah Jahan paraded out of the fort atop an elephant into the streets of Old Delhi, though, he and the fort that he built were a grandiose display of pomp and power.

Located on a high bluff overlooking Irwin's Bay on Lake Mersin, the grounds covered a quarter of a square c'lenyt and were dotted by filigreed pavilions, grandiose floral displays, and cascading fountains, all joined by an intricate network of paved footpaths.

The Senate expresses its disapproval of long, honking motorcades, heavily armed guards and grandiose display by the State Department for foreign dignitaries when they visit the Senate.