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

Then Greene returned to euphuism in Menaphon, and in Euphues, his Censure to Philautus; nor are Perimedes the Blacksmith and Tully's Love much out of the same line.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

Michael Drayton, in some verse complimentary to Sidney, stigmatises not much too strongly Lyly's prevailing faults, and attributes to the hero of Zutphen the purification of England from euphuism.

From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George

In the first place it appears that the part played by Berners in the history of euphuism has been considerably under-estimated.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover