orotund

How To Use orotund In A Sentence

• At the other extreme is Vienna, with his sadistic relish and orotund vernacular.
• Pretentious maybe, but it is still rather fun in its orotund syllables.
• They could therefore rely more on an orotund voice when the circumstances required competence, confidence, and enthusiasm early in the interaction.
• When more emotion was needed, the volume was turned up, or the elocution became more orotund.
• As we noted several months ago, orotund, abstract language can obfuscate accountability, truth-telling, and as we're now seeing most clearly, the simple facing of reality.
• Namely, she regards her father as an orotund megalomaniacal monkey.
• A contemporary critic of Tacitism even observed that Tacitus's prose style sounded like the clipped commands of a soldier, quite different from the orotund and peaceful prose of Cicero.
• Nay, Mr Urquhart,' said Dalziel with a fulsome orotundity, `I'd be real sorry to think I'd left you in any doubt about that. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
• There is a curious historical paradox that dictates declarations of crisis should always be written in slow, orotund prose that declares emergency and demands urgency but does so at the slowest possible pace and with maximum ambiguity.
• I greatly feared - and still slightly do fear - that this creature presages a descent into a fantasy nerdfest of Tolkienesque pomposity and orotundity.