floridity
Example Sentences
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Here, as he did in “Shuggie Bain,” Stuart mixes the self-aware floridity and emotional Technicolor of a Douglas Sirk melodrama with the ambient violence of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2022
It appears to have been Ms. Rourke’s intention to create a historical distance between then and now, perhaps as a means of justifying the high floridity of what follows.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2016
While recognizing his indebtedness to his predecessor, Mr. Allen said that he sought to distinguish himself from Cross, who retained the floridity of 1930s radio broadcasting long after the decade was out.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 10, 2016
The result had all the fidelity and floridity of fan fiction.
From Time ● Feb. 12, 2015
Correctness and clearness properly belong to the domain of diction; simplicity, conciseness, gravity, elegance, diffuseness, floridity, force, feebleness, coarseness, etc., belong to the domain of style.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly
