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.