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

The euphuism, to which his famous Lyly. romance gave its name, likewise distinguishes his mythological,172 quasi-historical,173 allegorical,174 and satirical175 comedies.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various

Equally unsatisfactory is the theory that euphuism was of purely Spanish origin.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

The style of the Filocopo was new; and in spite, or perhaps because of, its euphuism, it had a decided success.

From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington