euphuism
Example Sentences
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"We're losing the war," he insists, adding with a flourish of Romneyesque euphuism: "The Viet Nam tail is wagging our global dog."
From Time Magazine Archive
Above all, none of the grandiosity and architectural euphuism of the American "signature" museum.
From Time Magazine Archive
That lady was considered most proficient in euphuism who could keep up longest these chains of similes taken out of fabulous natural history.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various
The world is so much with us, now-a-days, that we need have something that prates to us, albeit even in too fine an euphuism, of the moon and stars.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various
Cynthia's Revels has the same defects, but is to some extent saved by its sharp raillery of euphuism.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
