: an elevated or grand style (as in music or literature)
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Del Toro is stolid and poignant as an overreaching underling, Duke awe-inspiring as a mastermind with a grand manner and a core of principle, and Matt Damon comes in for an archly grandiloquent turn as a shadowy string-puller.—
Richard Brod,
The New Yorker,
1 July 2021 The new grand manner is again showing us the course of empire, on the far side of the apogee.—Washington Post,
28 Nov. 2020