grandiloquence

NOUN
  1. high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
    the grandiosity of his prose
    an excessive ornateness of language
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How To Use grandiloquence In A Sentence

  • His portrait with the eyeshade, from 1775, is utterly without grandiloquence.
  • It's the economy, stupid, which reflects the government close association with the "grandiloquence" of Britain's economic performance in the past few years. The Latest From www.politics.co.uk
  • The article is thus meaningless grandiloquence when it comes to the courts. Iris Erlingsdottir: "Free Speech" Not So Free
  • Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader. Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Speaking of dialogue revision, part VI: and then there’s the fine art of doing it right, or, love, agent-style
  • And what I find in her work is a lot of Italian baroque kind of gestures and grandiloquence.
  • The source of Mr. Fortuna's power in the film resides in his lithe gait and the sly air of grandiloquence with which Cesar hunts down his man. Out of Africa and Back Again
  • However, Evie's mother sounds a little too much like her daughter, and this lack of distinctiveness can be levelled at most of the voices: they share a slightly fusty grandiloquence at times redolent of a 19th-century novel. The Echo Chamber by Luke Williams – review
  • Nevertheless, he has his moments of loopy grandiloquence.
  • Enter Kekhman, then 39, a multi-millionaire fruit importer who described himself , with Freudian grandiloquence, as "the Emperor of the Banana". Who's pulling the strings in Russia's ballet revolution?
  • Or, to put it as some aspiring writers might: without embroiling us in superfluous polysemousness, it must be averred that the aesthetic propensities of a vainglorious tome toward prolixity or indeed even the pseudo-pragmatic co-optation — as by droit du seigneur — of an antiquitarian lexis, whilst purportedly an amendment to the erudition of said opuscule and arguably consanguinean (metaphorically speaking) and perhaps even existentially bound up with its literary apprizal, can all too facilely directionize in the azimuth of fustian grandiloquence or unmanacle unpurposed (or even dystelelogical) consequences on a pith and/or douceur de vivre level vis-à-vis even the most pansophic reader. Author! Author! » 2010 » August
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