And in a stupendous
folie de grandeur Walpole then built a jewel-like house to contain them at Houghton in Norfolk, which became a kind of sarcophagus for the family's fortune requiring, as well as the sale of the collection, several dynastic marriages to stabilise affairs.
Cricklewood Greats takes viewers from the early silent movie experiments of Arthur Simm, through the 1930s comedies of Florrie Fontaine and the glory years of the "Thumbs Up" movies, to the 1970s exploitation horror movies starring Lionel Crisp, and the ultimate
folie de grandeur of Terry Gilliam's "Professor Hypochondria's Magical Odyssey" which finally destroyed the studios in the early 1980s.
Is railway modernisation an investment in the future, or a costly
folie de grandeur? Add to this the German love of complaining about a public transport system that still is the envy of most nations, and you see that, yet again, this is a dispute with very little to do with architectural quality, fitness for ecological purpose, or the convenience of the vast majority of German travellers who don't want to drive or fly.
Corbin wishes to make Pinagot part of the memory of the 19th century, which can sound like a
folie de grandeur. No doubt Pinagot will henceforth be referred to in historical works, so that, in the terminology of E.H.
Mountbatten who accused him of
folie de grandeur dismissed the idea of taking over the country as rank treason and told King to get out when he put it to him.
The politicians who signed up to this adventure in vanity never paid the price for their
folie de grandeur.
John Dunlop's
Folie de Grandeur steps into a handicap for the first time in the Dr Martens Nursery (7.45).
But to imply, as Gardiner does, that it took artistic
folie de grandeur to fall out with Lesley Waddington is capricious.
Grand resources -- New World silver, and the absorption of Portugal and its empire -- tempted Philip to grand solutions, of which the Armada was the ultimate
folie de grandeur.
This
folie de grandeur, worthy of the late Nicolae Ceausescu, suggests that if foreign influences are inevitable, the hegemony of neoclassicism is a more acceptable expression of national aspiration than the feared hegemony of Western Modernism.
They call it
folie de grandeur, the self-deluding sense of importance that makes peacocks out of pigeons.