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

I make a special mention of this point, as we shall find it has a certain connexion with the subject of the origins of euphuism.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

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

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover

Her style, instead of being clear and simple, as would have best suited her subject, is disfigured by the euphuism which was the fashion among writers of the last century.

From Mary Wollstonecraft by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins