noun. The condition or quality of being grandiose; bombastic or inflated style or manner.

noun. The state or quality of being grandiose

noun. The state of being grandiose (pompous or pretentious).

noun. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation

"The things outsiders find absurd or threatening about California — the self-fashioned spiritual practices, the bodybuilder/action-star governor, the crazy diets, the junk bonds, the endless supply of new fictions, the UCLA - and Palo Alto – born Internet — do share a certain grandiosity, a ridiculous desire to change the world, or at least oneself."

expressive style  style  

blah  bombast  claptrap  flourish  fustian  

approvals  council-pensionary  genuflection  internationalism  malfeasance