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

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

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

And it is not fanciful I think to see in Lyly's pointed dialogue, tinged with euphuism, the forerunner of Congreve's sparkling conversation and of the epigrammatic writing of our modern English playwrights.

From John Lyly by Wilson, John Dover