euphuistic
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In truth, while Ros’s pathos-filled classic now reads as unintentionally comic, its euphuistic style isn’t that much different from the circumlocutions found in late Henry James.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2018
Early in July, Molotov was listed as a signer of the euphuistic vale to the departed Georgi Dimitrov.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mistress of euphuistic words, she is carried away by their glamor, too easily seduced from reason.
From Time Magazine Archive
For all the theater and guignol in his work, Caravaggio had far more in common with the great solidifiers of the Renaissance, from Masaccio to Michelangelo, than with the euphuistic wreathings of late mannerism.
From Time Magazine Archive
I think Castalia much too euphuistic, and though I shouldn't like the book to be called simply still I have a great prejudice against very florid titles for such gatherings.
From Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Sir Hall Caine
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