grandiose vs high-sounding

grandiose

adj
  • Pompous or pretentious. 

  • Large and impressive, in size, scope or extent. 

high-sounding

adj
  • Having an elevated or moralistic tone; pompous. 

  • Oratorial, sometimes to the point of sounding contrived. 

How often have the words grandiose and high-sounding occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )