And then there are what the department grandly calls "descriptive measures."
He grandly called it "the great universal law of equilibrium".
Once a month there was a dance, grandly call a 'ball', which often lasted until 3 am.
Bosnian Government soldiers defending the town grandly called themselves the 28th Division.
Gisella called grandly to Otik, sweeping out through the open door.
Has a shack in the rear he grandly calls a museum of antiquity.
He wandered back toward what was grandly called a road, where the hedgerows grew tall and had the first haze of spring on them.
Death triumphs over birth in a country that the state-owned news media grandly calls an energy superpower.
Russia is a country in perpetual search of what is sometimes grandly called the National Idea.
In eastern Germany and Poland, a new village was sometimes grandly called a civitas.