euphuism

Example Sentences

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Above all, none of the grandiosity and architectural euphuism of the American "signature" museum.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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

Dr. Blecker used no delicate euphuism in talking of women, which, maybe, was as well.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various

The purity of her literary taste, the love for a chaste and simple style, which Ascham noted with praise in her girlhood, had not yet perished under the influence of euphuism.

From History of the English People, Volume IV by Green, John Richard

In both answers I think there is truth; and I hope to show that they give us, when combined, a fairly adequate explanation of the vogue of euphuism in our country.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover